| Trimming and sculpting trees to bonsai has a | | | | announced bonsai to the wide world public. |
| long history. The first bonsai trees should | | | | The inquiry for bonsai started to rise |
| have been planted in China already about 2000 | | | | rapidly. The lack of natural small-grown |
| years ago in trays. People mentions the | | | | trees led to the commercial production of the |
| miniaturised creation of bonsai trees in | | | | bonsai. Several basic styles asserted |
| China Pensai. Besides, the typical growth | | | | themselves. The bonsai artists made use of |
| forms of the tree vegetation are postformed | | | | wire, bamboo canes and other technologies to |
| in some provinces as a Pensai. In other | | | | influence growing, shaping and developing. |
| provinces Pensai are formed rather in weird, | | | | |
| symbolical shapes, for example, in dragon's | | | | Still today bonsai is highly respected as a |
| figure. | | | | symbol of the japanese culture and ideals. |
| | | | Nowadays in Japan bonsai is not left any more |
| China had traditionally a great influence on | | | | only to the upper class, but has asserted |
| the cultural development of Japan. Thus the | | | | itself in all social classes. Japanese |
| Buddhism could gain a foothold beside the | | | | incline especially with pleasure to use only |
| state religion of the Shinto rather early in | | | | native species for their bonsai trees. In |
| Japan. Walking monks of the Zen Buddhism | | | | particular pines, azaleas and maple are |
| brought therefore the first Pensai to Japan. | | | | looked as the traditional bonsai trees. In |
| In the culturally very open imperial city | | | | other countries people are not fixed and uses |
| Kyoto noble ladies and gentlemen soon dealt | | | | also many other tree species for growing |
| beside the art of the ikebana and the tea | | | | bonsai under the most different climatic |
| ceremony with the small bonsai trees. | | | | conditions. Particularly in last decades the |
| | | | development of the bonsai was going on. The |
| In the 17th and 18th century the Japanese | | | | bonsai world has become smaller. All over the |
| bonsai art reached their peak. It had become | | | | world people began, whether in Asia, in |
| a part of the Japanese way of life. Bonsai | | | | Europe, in the United States and even in |
| had served to better understand the nature | | | | Greenland, to discover bonsai as their hobby. |
| and to improve in appearance. The main factor | | | | In the meantime, bonsai art also reflected |
| in the development of the bonsai was the | | | | the great variety in predilections and |
| restriction on the most important parts of | | | | characteristics of the most different |
| the plant. All apparently dispensable parts | | | | countries and their cultures. |
| were removed. The removal of all | | | | |
| insignificant and the reduction on the | | | | With proper care bonsai trees can become |
| essential elements for the final improvement | | | | hundreds of years old. Such highly respected |
| was symbolic for the Japanese philosophy of | | | | specimens are transmitted from generation to |
| that time. Bonsai developed in different | | | | generation and are admired for their age and |
| style directions which considerably differed | | | | revered. The aging of the bonsai trees is |
| of each other. Bonsai artists attempted more | | | | often connected also with the events in the |
| and more culturally important elements like | | | | life of the people that have looked in the |
| rock to realise accent works. | | | | course of the centuries after them. Such old |
| | | | bonsai trees are extremely beautiful. |
| After more than 230 years of the global | | | | Nevertheless, with the bonsai tree the age |
| isolation Japan opened at the middle of 19th | | | | hasn't the highest priority, however caring |
| century to the rest of the world. The | | | | bonsai for years away and developing of the |
| travellers came back from Japan and had seen | | | | knowledge about the tree. It is most |
| the miniature trees in the ceramic containers | | | | important that a bonsai tree can generate his |
| which copied ripe, high trees in the nature. | | | | desired artistic effect and grows up in the |
| Then at the end of the century exhibitions | | | | right proportion to the suitable container, |
| followed in London, Vienna and Paris. | | | | so that the tree can develop with good |
| Especially the Paris world exhibition in 1900 | | | | health. |