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		<title>Introduction to the Living Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 19:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say &#8216;art&#8217; and most will think of painting or sculpture. There is a kind of sculpture, though, that takes as its raw material not stone or wood but a living tree. That is the art of bonsai.
From the Japanese word for &#8216;tree in a tray&#8217;, Bonsai is the art and product of shaping trees by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of a Living Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The craft of shaping miniature trees in a small pot first arose over a thousand years ago in China, where it was known as pun-sai.
Even then the variety of individual bonsai was astonishing, as known from ancient drawings. Gnarled, faux-windswept trunks, with sparse leaves to full-flowering miniature blossoming trees dot the historic record.
The Chinese artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonsai Styles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the centuries the artists of bonsai have developed hundreds of unique styles. But within this complexity there are a few that form the basis of most of the variations.
Chokkan (Formal Upright)
The simplest, but still exquisitely beautiful, is the chokkan or formal upright. Though still a miniature, this style most resembles the full grown tree. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonsai Cascade Styles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kengai (cascade) style is among the more beautiful and desired, but also more difficult to achieve. The trunk grows down below the level of the container, often twisting as it does so.
In nature, a tree growing near a cliff subject to heavy snows, avalanches and wind may assume this inverted position. Those forces are [...]]]></description>
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