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- From: dmiller@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller)
- Subject: Re: Again, what is bonsai?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.145929.29029@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:59:29 GMT
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- >Subject: Again, what is bonsai?
- >
- >Hello!!
- >I'm very sorry I always say "I'll post soon," but I haven't yet.
- >
- >Now, I have a question:
- >In Japan, BONSAI means small trees grown in pots.
- >In English, does the word BONSAI have exactly the same meaning in Japan?
- >or, Is it include flowers in a pot, or big trees grown on the ground?
- >
- >Sorry this is a very basic question:-/
- >
- >Megumi Sorita
- >sorita@fhl.fujitsu.co.jp
- >
-
- The usual meaning in English is the same as in Japanese because the concept
- as well as the word were taken from Japanese. Big trees in the ground
- would not be called BONSAI. Normal flowers in a pot would not be called
- BONSAI, however, if a woody flowering plant which was usually allowed to
- grow freely in a pot were to be pruned and treated like a BONSAI tree, it
- might be called a BONSAI by some people. Other people might not consider
- such a plant a BONSAI.
-
- Perhaps I remember that certain styles of growning chrysanthemum plants in
- pots in Japan are called bonsai, or perhaps my memory is wrong here.
- Please clarify.
-
- --Jill
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