"Don't try to make your bonsai look like a tree. Try to make your tree look like a bonsai."
Naka was a master of group compositions. His most famous masterpiece, Goshin ("Protector of the Spirit"), is an 11-tree forest style bonsai representing his grandchildren. Bonsai Techniques II provides strict mathematical and aesthetic rules for creating realistic forests: john naka bonsai techniques 2 pdf
Bare, stripped branches that look weathered by wind and lightning. "Don't try to make your bonsai look like a tree
Finding a full PDF of can be difficult because the book is a highly valued collector's item and protected by copyright. It was originally published by the Bonsai Institute of California and is frequently out of print. Online Viewing and Access Online Viewing and Access Naka discouraged forcing a
Naka discouraged forcing a rigid style onto a plant. Instead, he advocated for finding the "line of beauty" already hidden within the trunk. Artists must analyze the root flare (nebari) and trunk movement before making a single cut. 2. Blending Nature and Artifice