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Top left and right; When
I showed the photos to Masahiko Kimura in 2017, the master found it an exceptional piece, just because of the nature of the trunk, so thin and refined, that he did a drawing and he explained to Alessandro Bonardo how to do it. Alessandro is in his second year of apprenticeship with Kimura, and executed these changes with me in August 2017..
Middle; Alessandro made
a perfect job based on the master’s drawing, which Kimura greatly appreciated.
The word bunjin derives from the environment of warriors, who in China were normally dignitaries, landowners and government bureaucrats (9th century AD). To be considered bunjin they had to know seven arts: To play the harp, play chess, compose poetry, be able to read and write, use calligraphy, paint, and write books. They were people of great possibilities who did not stain themselves with worldliness, but preferred to live as hermits. In China the golden age of this way of being goes from the tenth to the twelfth century. (Sung dynasty).
The history of Japanese bunjin begins after the end of the Kamakura period (XIII century). In this period were born several bunjin painters who lived frugally. In order to understand the taste of bunjin, one must practice the most regular form and on the basis of this, one understands the soft character that is agile, easy, witty, elegant and not caring, so as to reach the climax to understand the true bunjin soul, the fifth essence of passion.
The bunjin tree should be elegant, casual and full of poetry and have a slender trunk, but not young. Technically there is no longer the concept of branches,
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