What is Bonsai?

The term bonsai has its origins in Chinese practice, which is where bonsai first originated. The concept of planting container plants was brought back to Japan by Buddhist students and Imperial embassy personnel, who brought with them their ideas and goods. They also introduced container plantings into Japanese representative art and writings. As a result, the art of growing bonsai has become a popular form of landscape gardening.

Although the word bonsai comes from the Japanese language, the term originally means “penzai,” which refers to a Chinese term. However, the term has been used in the West to describe a wide variety of living things, and today is a general umbrella term for these types of plants. As a result, the word has been used to describe a wide variety of plants and living things.

The word bonsai is a loanword from the Chinese language. It has come to mean “tray planting” and has since been applied to a broad range of different plants and living things. In fact, bonsai is actually a term for a small container-grown tree and is the equivalent to the Chinese word penzai. This practice has roots in both the ancient traditions and the Western art of gardening.

The term bonsai comes from the word “penjing,” which is a tree that is meant to represent strength and stability. It is believed that these trees were two thousand years old when they reached Japan. Branches of this tree arrived in the 7th and 8th centuries and their aesthetics were recognized. By the 13th century, bonsai had gained popularity and began to appear in paintings. A poet and Buddhist named Kokan Shiren, who grew up in Japan, wrote a treatise known as the Bonseki no fu (Bonsai no fu), a book that describes the aesthetic principles of this art form.