Here's part of what Juan Andrade wrote about this highly unusual Trident maple... "4 generations in the making, 120+ years old... this tree was started by my Oyakata's great grandfather.... Nowadays its very hard to find 'Miyasama' Trident maple of this caliper in Japan.... This Miyasama encompasses a lot about Aichien deciduous style: power, ramification, age and uniqueness." See below for your link to Juan's untruncated quote.
I suppose I need to get over my ideas about what is and isn’t grotesque. At lease when it comes to nebari. After all, highly respected bonsai artists – mostly Japanese – seem to favor what some might call over-developed nebari. How these nebari actually look seems to take a back seat to how big, how old and how unusual they are. Or to quote Juan, how much power, ramification, age and uniqueness they express (here’s your link Juan’s quote).
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I'm loath to admit that my first thought in seeing this was tumor. True, after a while and after reading what Juan had to say, I've softened a bit...
Back to what is and isn’t grotesque, and thanks to Juan’s eloquence, maybe I can come around to realizing that this very strange nebari is truly awesome in its own right. Some things are more important than ideas of perfection and superficial beauty.
