How to create a Pine Bonsai - A. Kurakichi

A volume dedicated to the cultivation and setting of pine trees. Through the teaching completeness of precious bonsai techniques, it educates the sensitivity of enthusiasts to the purity of the form and the perceptions of their own soul.

This new edition, graphically expanded and improved, presents the evolution of bonsai over the last 50 years of cultivation: starting point, the historical photos of the first edition of the book.

A glossary of Japanese terms in the book has also been added to the text.

Master Abe developed the idea of ​​the "Beauty of the void" the kūkan yūbi 空間有美. This aesthetic-philosophical concept promotes the beauty of empty spaces and the importance of taking inspiration from Nature for the creation of bonsai.

Nature is the protagonist and offers us its designs, its shapes, with plays of voids and solids that give life to the spaces and the very shape of the bonsai. We learn from its natural plant forms: when the branches are superfluous, they dry out and the forms themselves are shaped by the force of Nature. Through bonsai we tend to reproduce all this.

The concept of "Beauty of the Void" is today carried forward by his son Ken'ichi Abe and his grandson Daiki Abe who spread their grandfather's spirit throughout the world.

This book was born from the living experience of the Japanese master Abe Kurakichi, a great connoisseur of the bonsai art and an important architect of its diffusion internationally. It has a simple and fun linguistic style and is accompanied by numerous sketches that facilitate understanding based on the assumption that bonsai is an art form. This is a guide specifically dedicated to pine.