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Bonsai Rider gets his motor running, sells tiny trees in town
Do you know Bonsai(盆栽)?
Bonsai is the art of growing trees, or woody plants shaped as trees, in containers.
Bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfing, but dwarfing more accurately refers to researching and creating cultivars of plant material that are permanent, genetic miniatures of existing species.
Bonsai does not require genetically dwarfed trees, but rather depends on growing small trees from regular stock and seeds.
Bonsai uses cultivation techniques like pruning, root reduction, potting, defoliation, and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-sized trees.
Taking up herewith "Cool Japan" News by Asahi regarding Bonsai.
⇒Bonsai & Bonsai Tools
(Bonsai / Image)
(Bonsai / Image)
⇒Bonsai & Bonsai Tools
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Ahh, spring, when it's time to keep eyes open for sprouts, buds, and the Bonsai Rider. That's the name that Tadao Yoshida goes by when he straddles his scooter and sells miniature trees.
A second-generation gardener, the peripatetic plantman has a nursery in Oimachi in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, but began selling on the sidewalk five years ago.
(Tadao Yoshida, 47, sells bonsai from a scooter. (LOUIS TEMPLADO))
"My place is far from the station, so I hardly got any business," he explains. "That's why I took to the road. I didn't know if I'd actually sell any bonsai from the back of a scooter, but I thought it would at least drum up some attention."
Yoshida was surprised by how many customers he attracted and how many among them where big spenders.
"If someone saw a tree they liked they'd pull out 40,000 or 50,000 yen ($440-560) right on the spot, which opened my eyes because we're supposed to be in a recession. I guess some people can't resist green." That doesn't happen so much now, he adds.
Although Yoshida has no fixed route, chances are you can find him in front of one of the department stores in posh Ginza, in working-world Shinbashi or in the fashion enclave of Omotesando.
⇒Bonsai & Bonsai Tools
"Each place has its own kind of customer," he says. "Here in the Ginza, for example, a lot buyers are Chinese tourists-- they like colorful trees that fit in their carry-ons."
In Shinbashi, office workers tend to prefer more subdued items. "Young people everywhere don't have much money or space, so they want something really small."
In fact, these days almost everyone wants something cheaper and smaller, which is why Yoshida now mostly sells a line of mini-bonsai, priced from 500 yen.
"It's a tiny fraction of what I used to get for one tree," he says, but he can sell as many as 100 a day. "No matter what happens, people will always want a little green in their lives."
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By T.S. on Mar 22, 2010
Bonsai is the art of growing trees, or woody plants shaped as trees, in containers.
Bonsai is sometimes confused with dwarfing, but dwarfing more accurately refers to researching and creating cultivars of plant material that are permanent, genetic miniatures of existing species.
Bonsai does not require genetically dwarfed trees, but rather depends on growing small trees from regular stock and seeds.
Bonsai uses cultivation techniques like pruning, root reduction, potting, defoliation, and grafting to produce small trees that mimic the shape and style of mature, full-sized trees.
Taking up herewith "Cool Japan" News by Asahi regarding Bonsai.
⇒Bonsai & Bonsai Tools
(Bonsai / Image)
(Bonsai / Image)
⇒Bonsai & Bonsai Tools
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Ahh, spring, when it's time to keep eyes open for sprouts, buds, and the Bonsai Rider. That's the name that Tadao Yoshida goes by when he straddles his scooter and sells miniature trees.
A second-generation gardener, the peripatetic plantman has a nursery in Oimachi in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, but began selling on the sidewalk five years ago.
(Tadao Yoshida, 47, sells bonsai from a scooter. (LOUIS TEMPLADO))
"My place is far from the station, so I hardly got any business," he explains. "That's why I took to the road. I didn't know if I'd actually sell any bonsai from the back of a scooter, but I thought it would at least drum up some attention."
Yoshida was surprised by how many customers he attracted and how many among them where big spenders.
"If someone saw a tree they liked they'd pull out 40,000 or 50,000 yen ($440-560) right on the spot, which opened my eyes because we're supposed to be in a recession. I guess some people can't resist green." That doesn't happen so much now, he adds.
Although Yoshida has no fixed route, chances are you can find him in front of one of the department stores in posh Ginza, in working-world Shinbashi or in the fashion enclave of Omotesando.
⇒Bonsai & Bonsai Tools
"Each place has its own kind of customer," he says. "Here in the Ginza, for example, a lot buyers are Chinese tourists-- they like colorful trees that fit in their carry-ons."
In Shinbashi, office workers tend to prefer more subdued items. "Young people everywhere don't have much money or space, so they want something really small."
In fact, these days almost everyone wants something cheaper and smaller, which is why Yoshida now mostly sells a line of mini-bonsai, priced from 500 yen.
"It's a tiny fraction of what I used to get for one tree," he says, but he can sell as many as 100 a day. "No matter what happens, people will always want a little green in their lives."
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By T.S. on Mar 22, 2010
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