Shari Bonsai

Creating a shari in this movie taiga urushibata explains how to create a shari deadwood part of the trunk on a bonsai.

Shari bonsai. Bonsai de acebuche olivo. Shari is the japanese word for any exposed dead wood on a trunk of a bonsai. Shari 360 bonsai ciprés piramidal bunjin duration. The exposed sections of dead wood on the trunk give the impression of a struggle against the elements such as wind ice or even light ning strikes.

Trabajos en madera muerta 2016 duration. I don t think i ve posted a close up of the shari so i ll have to do that in a future post. In order to enhance the jins and shari a chemical pesticide named lime sulfur also lime sulphur is applied. It is not exposed dead wood branches.

By exposing deadwood the bonsai artist can bring on the appearance of advanced aging of a tree and add more interest. Deadwood on bonsai jin shari and uro creating deadwood on bonsai in the form of jin or shari can enhance the tree s character significantly. A small shari usually runs vertically on or near the front of the trunk shari have little aesthetic value at the rear of the trunk where they are rarely viewed and are obscured by branch growth. A jin is a bare stripped part of branch and a shari is a barkless part of trunk.

Bonsai space 89 091 views. The live vein of growth is on the right hand side of the trunk and its edge has been sealed with wound sealant for the purposes of helping the edge of the live wood heal. A shari is deadwood on the main trunk of the bonsai. The trick is to study the live veins on the tree carefully and only remove those parts of the trunk not linked to the branches above it.

The brief version of the story behind the shari is that the tree had dried out or been overly root pruned before i acquired it.