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Kyōto hosts 2 major exhibitions of Bonsai each year at the Miyako Messe: the 'Nihon Bonsai Taikanten' (日本盆栽大観展) in Autumn, and the 'Gafūten Shōhin' (小品盆栽 雅風展) in January, which focuses on Bonsai so small they can be held in the palm of your hand.
Kyōto hosts 2 major exhibitions of Bonsai each year at the Miyako Messe: the 'Nihon Bonsai Taikanten' (日本盆栽大観展) in Autumn, and the 'Gafūten Shōhin' (小品盆栽 雅風展) in January, which focuses on Bonsai so small they can be held in the palm of your hand.
Some time during the Tang dynasty, 'penjing' (盆景), the Chinese tradition of creating miniature landscapes in a tray, arrived in Japan. Here the emphasis moved from creating entire scenes to focusing on individual trees, replicating full-grown specimens on a minute scale.
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Penjing began to arrive in Japan from the 7thC, brought back from the mainland by returning embassy officials and Buddhist students, but the first appearance of (what we would recognize as) Bonsai in Japanese art is in the 1195 'Saigyō Monogatari emaki' (西行物語絵巻).
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