BONSAI STYLES

TRUNK STYLES

CHOKKAN
............ (Formal upright)   
MOYOGI ............... (Informal upright) 
SHAKAN ................ (Slanting) 
FUKINAGASHI .......(Windswept) 
BUNJINGI .............. (Free style or Literati) 
HOKIDACHI .......... (Broom)
SHARIMIKI ........... (Driftwood)
BANKAN  ............... (Coiled trunk) 
HAN-KENGAI ......... (Semi-cascade)
KENGAI .................. (Cascade) 
NEJIKAN ................ (Twisted trunk)
TAKO-SUKURI.........(Undulating or octopus trunk)

ROOT STYLES

NEAGARI .................(Exposed root) 
ISHITZUKI .............. (Clinging-to-rock or rock-grown) 
IKADABUKI ............ (Raft) 
NETSURANARI ........ (Conected root) 

MULTITRUNK STYLES


KABUDACHI ............ (Clump or multiple trunk)
SOJUKAN ................. (Two trunks) 
SOKAN ..................... (Double trunk) 
SANKAN ................... (Triple trunk) 
GOKAN ..................... (Five trunk)

YOSE-UE ..................... (Forest, group or multi-tree) 

SOJU............................(2 trunk forest)
SAMBON-YOSE
.........(3 trunk forest)

GOHON-YOSE...............(5 trunk forest)

NANAHON-YOSE...........(7 trunk forest)

KYUHON-YOSE.............(9 trunk forest)


OTHER

BONKEI - SAIKEI .......... (Tray landscape with   
                                          human or animal figures)
 


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