Juniperus Chinensis Itoigawa
Safe delivery in a wooden crate.

• Height: 41 cm

• Width: 56 cm

• Trunk: 34 cm

• Pot: Height 9 cm / 25 × 30 cm

Photos taken in October 2025

Juniperus Itoigawa bonsai, the prized Shimpaku juniper

This Juniperus Itoigawa bonsai belongs to the most celebrated juniper variety in the art, the Itoigawa Shimpaku, treasured for its dense, fine, emerald foliage and its extraordinary capacity for dramatic deadwood. At 41 cm tall and 56 cm wide, with a substantial 34 cm trunk, this is a mature, well-built specimen with the movement and density that mark a serious juniper. The soft scale foliage forms tight pads that hold their shape beautifully and lend the tree a quiet, ancient calm.

The Itoigawa is prized above all other shimpaku for the quality of its foliage, which stays fine and a deep blue-green, and for the way its living veins can be played against bleached deadwood to tell a story of survival on a windswept ridge. On a tree of this trunk thickness, the contrast between living bark and silvered wood becomes the heart of the composition, a study in age and endurance.

Heritage of the Itoigawa Shimpaku

The Itoigawa juniper takes its name from the region of Japan where the finest mountain-collected shimpaku were once found, and it has become the benchmark against which other junipers are judged. Generations of Japanese masters have shaped these trees into the iconic images of jin and shari, the deadwood features that define the species in bonsai. To own an Itoigawa is to hold a direct link to that lineage of mountain junipers and the patient craft built around them.

About this specimen

This juniper stands around 41 cm tall, spans roughly 56 cm, and carries a thick 34 cm trunk, presented in the ceramic pot shown in the photographs, which is included. The foliage pads are dense and well placed, and the trunk has genuine movement and maturity. Photographed in October 2025, it is offered exactly as pictured.