The tree introduced in this page is a juniper taiwanese, a variety of the juniper chinensis. This essence is particularly appreciated by the bonsaistis for its vigor and for the thick head of hair of an intense green. It grows in the damp zones, where the precipitations are very scarce whose earth is  argillosa but rich of microelements. It is cultivated  in full field in the regions center northern of the island of Taiwan.
This essence in some situations what the drastic prunings the rinvasis and the excess of water, flourishing to needles. It is a way to defend himself/herself/themselves from situations of danger.
Also stimulated with the flourishing pruning on the old wood.
Also the excesses of manurings do that the vegetation grows to needles, for which it is advisable to use organic fertilizers to slow transfer

Fig. 8 Particular of the workmanship of the shari .

Fig. 7 Cleaning of the bark

Returning to our plant, it was submitted me by a collector that you/he/she had just purchased her in a hatchery. Attentively observing the sample I understood that you/he/she had already had a workmanship. This last rather coarse and superficial.
 

Fig. 2  Back

In fact this technique is mostly used when the wood is still fresh. Just for this the hardest parts I have worked her with gouges. Subsequently I have applied the mastic on all the cuts so the callus will uniformly grow without creating clots. Then I have burnt the dry parts and passed the liquid jin. After these operation I chose the front and the correct inclination. It didn't now stay whether to also wind all the branches that smaller with the copper, but I noticed that more than few branches were very woody and therefore very hard, for which definite to protect them and to wind them with the raffia so that to avoid that during the modeling they broke him. Definite not to eliminate the low branch to the left of the observer because the corresponding vein is weakly tied up with the vein that passes from behind the plant, for which I will wait that their fusion is more definite then I believe that I will eliminate him/it. Here is the final result didn't stay whether to contemplate this sample, this  è the certain most important moment is always a first step but austerity is already seen the immediateness and the power that it expresses this bonsai. I am usual to give a name to my creations in this proper case inspiring me to the ten jin that is as lifted swords  toward the sky. Then “Swords toward the sky “

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Fig. 22 From the back after the modeling.
 

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Fig.18 Resulted workmanship of the dry firewood, with the application of the mastic on the cuts.

Subsequently I passed to the workmanship of the dry firewood, therefore to the creation of jin and shari, improving  e making more dispositions the parts of dry wood that it already had. Particularly, the shari that departs from the base up to half tree creating those situations that made that part to the most ancient appearance. Above all the shari made ampler that from half tree goes to lace him to the ten jin. This to create that sense of spin that together with the ten jins were the two elements of strength giving order, immediateness and power to the tree
With the technique to tear wood threads one po from a time you/they can be gotten some effects of exceptional naturalness and beauty. with the strangest forms.

Unfortunately however in this case I have been able to partially do only it because those parts were for a long time already shoals and the wood was already very hard that even if I/you had wound her for a po of time with wet rags you/he/she would never be enfeebled to threads.





 

Fig.17   Workmanship and improvement of the then jin

Fig.16. Particular of the then jin

Fig 15. the shari is more breadth in comparison to before, really to give a sense of spin to the plant.

Fig. 14  Creation of a jin

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Fig. 9 Technique that foresees the tear to wood threads.

In fact besides the state of general abandonment
I found that:
- The present sharis didn't evoke any feeling of naturalness. They seemed more simply than the inaccurate cuts
- The jins were simply cut branches and peeled without any workmanship.
- The vegetation needles half and half to squame it was the sign of a bad cultivation and therefore of that state of abandonment of which above.
In short a plant from reinvent as if it were the first workmanship.
For which tirar the true potentiality of the plant needed, out that is to find and to create that elements that made me see and to understand, before choosing the front  .
However a very interesting element already had him/it and they was the two ten jin that seems two swords.
They call ten jin because ten means tall but also tall next to the divinity, for which must be used in particular cases and on particular plants and this according to me it is a particular plant. As before operation I had to thin the head of hair eliminating the needles vegetation selecting the whole vigorous vegetation and d eliminating that branches that didn't reenter in the final sketch  .
With this cleaning of the head of hair is made the whole plant visible and therefore all the lines of the trunk its movement and its details, besides the fact that would have allowed me to work in all calm without any impediment.
Then I passed to the cleaning of the trunk, beforehand detaching with a knife the bark which was enough thick and old and then finishing up the everything with sweet brushes  e thin abrasive paper, so that to underline that reddish color of the veins.