TOKYO — For decades, a prized, 400-year-old Japanese bonsai tree has been shaped, watered and cared for with all of the precision needed for a priceless piece of art. In the wrong hands, it could die ...
Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training and centuries of dedication. At the 2012 international bonsai convention, a tree was on sale for 100 million yen, just under a million dollars.
Masaru Yamaki donated the now 390-year-old white pine bonsai tree to be part of a 53 bonsais gifted by Japan to the United States for its bicentennial celebration in 1976. U.S. National Arboretum ...
Bonsai, those most elegant and regal of plants, sometimes have very lowbrow pedigrees. In upstate New York, for example, bonsai fanciers go tramping through cow pastures in search of small apple or ...
A bonsai thief has stolen seven tiny trees worth at least 13 million yen ($118,000) from a garden space in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo. The loot included a rare 400-year-old shimpaku tree, a star of ...
Bonsai trees are cool. But Nendo is cooler. Pair the Japan-based design studio with a future-centric baby tree, and you've got something. As phone carrier Softbank launched its own crowdfunding site, ...
If you're a human this week you've probably been spending a lot of tim trying to figure out where to buy floating bonsai trees. If you've been away from your keyboard, you might have missed this ...