This photo is from Bill Valavanis Bonsai Blog, as are the photos in our last post which featured bonsai by a Mr Funayama (no first name given) at the recent 8th World Bonsai Convention. The display of Mr Funayama's trees was designed by Seiji Morimae.
Here’s what Bill Valavanis wrote about the bonsai above (and below)… “Seiji Morimae and his assistants also maintain the Funayama Collection. A few years ago he (Seiji Morimae) took me to visit Mr. Funayama. During lunch Mr. Funayama showed me an old photograph of one of his prized Japanese five-needle pine bonsai from an exhibition around 1940. The photo was so old that it was in black and white, rather than color. That was the last time it was displayed until the Asia Pacific Bonsai & Suiseki Convention in Takamatsu held in November 2011. Mr. Morimae designed and had handmae in China for this bonsai which was valued at US$1,000,000.”
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This photo and the following caption are from a post we did in November, 2015.... Million dollar bonsai. Here's a mind-bending Japanese white pine that we featured back in 2011 with our original caption: This magnificent White pine was sold at the 11th Asia-Pacific Bonsai and Suiseki Convention & Exhibition in at Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, earlier this month. As you can see, the asking price was 100,000,000 yen (that’s close to 1.3 million dollars). I don’t know what the actual sales price was. Photo borrowed from Bonsai Tonight.
Here's a cropped version of the photo at the top of the page. BTW, Bill didn't comment on the scroll and plates, or the Gongshi (Scholar's stone) in the photo at the top of the post, so your guess is as good as mine (maybe better).
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Isao Omachi, his just finished demo tree and a 
Every fertilizer has strengths and weaknesses
Shaping up. This one is labeled January 2005. At the risk of stating the obvious, you might notice the two sacrifice branches. They are there to strengthen the apex by drawing energy up.
Back to the future. Boon labeled this August 2015. But upon cross examination he admitted that he was rushing the future.
This Sierra juniper by Boon Manakitivipart is one of three trees by Boon that appears in the gallery section of our 
This famous three-tiered tree, is a good example of how a bonsai can express both movement and stillness. All three tiers, bottom, top and middle move to the right, yet the overall effect is one of balance and stillness. Our friend and associate Robert Steven is the artist.
Not a prize winner, but still a mind stopper. Here's what Bill Valavanis has to say about this remarkable quince: "An unusual cultivar of Japanese flowering quince. This is NOT the Toyo Nishiki cultivar, but rather 'Takane Nishiki'. Beautiful flowers, unusual container, but I personally do not like the design of the bonsai, so enjoyed the blossoms."
An American in Tokyo. Sargent's juniper (aka Shimpaku) displayed by Doug Paul of Pennsylvania (
