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Highlights from Moriyama’s bonsai collection

November 6, 2012 by Jonas Dupuich

Mr. Moriyama is prominent among Nagoya bonsai collectors for good reason. He has an outstanding collection and he is a great supporter of both local and regional bonsai events, his trees featuring in at least five of the exhibits I visited last fall. At home, these trees are crowded into a beautiful garden setting. If you pay close attention and look past the lush foliage, you can find some amazing bonsai here.

Red pine

Red pine

White pine

Large white pine in a shallow round pot

Ficus

Ficus

Red pine

Red pine

Red pine bark

Great red pine bark

I don’t know which is heaviest in the garden, but I know I’d want help moving the root over rock black pine below. The stone alone would require considerable effort to lift, let alone pot, tree and soil.

Black pine

Root over rock black pine – one heavy tree!

Shimpaku

Shimpaku

Shimpaku

Shimpaku deadwood

Once trees are prepared for exhibit, they often make the rounds. The shimpaku below showed up at several events last fall, often as the biggest tree in the room at nearly four feet tall.

Shimpaku

Shimpaku

Not all of the trees, however, were huge as both accent plants and some outstanding small and medium sized bonsai could be found nestled among the giants.

Black pine

Black pine

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  1. Mary C Miller says

    November 7, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Wow … a Ficus bonsai in a Japanese collection. Pleased and surprised at the same time. Isn’t that rare?

    It looks like a F. nerifolia (aka Ficus salicaria) Some of your readers may be interested to know how it became a bonsai subject. The story is on this page: http://www.bonsaimary.com/Ficus-bonsai.html

  2. Jose Luis says

    November 9, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    I respectfully differ. I know this tree, originally from Taichung, Taiwan. It is a Ficus microcarpa. The top portion has been allowed to grow taller. Originally from Mr. Chang Yang Chin.

  3. Graham says

    November 9, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    WOW,
    Perhaps the collective “we” can start the journey for a legacy of our own native trees that will…..over time…… turn into legends on this side of the pacific.
    G

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