This is a picture of a rhododenron indicum, also known as satsuki azalea which is the japanese name. The word 'satsuki' means fifth moon, i.e. five complete moon cycles. After this five cycles (around may or june) this bonsai starts blooming what some people consider the most beautiful flowers in the world of bonsai.
Do you have any picture of a nice flowering azalea?
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What do you think about this acer buergerianum?
I took this picture years ago, in the bonsai school of Josep Berch, who recently passed away, so here's my tribute to him.
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In the western world:
As we have already seen, the period of westernization that took place in the Japan of the mid 19th century woke up the interest of the Europeans for the growing of bonsai; there is no way of knowing how many trees came to Europe fruit of this interest, nor how many survived more than a few months. Probably not too many, if we bear in mind the first somewhat naïve theories that arose to try to explain a phenomenon to all lights impossible according to the western knowledge
The first collections in a strict sense were presented in Europe in the Universal Exhibition ...

As years went by, the art of bonsai became more and more popular, especially in the Edo period (1603-1867), in which the feudal Japan lived a span of peace and prosperity that made all forms of art bloom and spread. In fact, it was in the middle of this period when the skills of gardening as well as those of landscaping would reach their maximum splendour with an incredible variety of cultivated plants. The art of bonsai was not an exception.
There are references that mention what we might consider to be a conference of artists, specialists of the classic Chinese works, and poets, that ...

Japan:
The Japanese culture has always had important contact with China, being the latter one of its greatest influences, not to say the greatest. References of this interrelation exist in periods as early as the Chin dynasty (226 - 206 BC) with numerous examples; some so quaint as the case of a famous Chinese magician called Hsu Fu who was sent to Japan by an emperor in search of the Elixir of Life, whatever it was. Later, there are references of numerous Japanese envoys wandering about different regions of China to learn its culture, in addition to numerous contacts between the ...