Bonsai di Juniper Itoigawa.
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• Altezza: 45 cm (vaso escluso)

• Larghezza: 54 cm

• Tronco: 22 cm

• Vaso: 11 x 26 x 26 cm

Foto scattate a Marzo 2026

Juniper Itoigawa bonsai, Father-Son composition

This Juniper Itoigawa bonsai is a Father-Son planting: a larger, dominant trunk standing beside a smaller companion, the two reading as one family group sharing a single pot. It is a composition full of warmth and quiet narrative, the bigger tree sheltering the younger the way an old juniper shelters a sapling on an exposed ridge. The Itoigawa foliage is fine and a deep, even green, gathering into soft pads that link the two trunks into a single picture. It comes in the pot shown.

Itoigawa is the most coveted of the shimpaku junipers, chosen for the refinement of its scale-like foliage and the way its live veins twist against pale deadwood. In a Father-Son planting those qualities are doubled, and the difference in scale between the trunks gives the eye a clear path and a real sense of depth. Viewed from the front, the two trees settle into a balanced, companionable whole.

Heritage

The name Itoigawa comes from the Japanese region where this prized shimpaku was found on rugged coastal mountains, and it became the benchmark juniper of Japanese bonsai. The Father-Son or two-tree planting belongs to an old tradition of arranging trees to suggest family and landscape, a quiet bit of storytelling in miniature. Together they carry a direct thread back to the windswept ridgeline trees that inspired the art.

About this specimen

The defining feature here is the pairing: a confident larger trunk and a smaller companion, balanced in foliage and deadwood, holding together cleanly from the front. These are living specimens, photographed as they are, and the pot is included.

A Father-Son Itoigawa is a tree with genuine narrative as well as pedigree. Bring this one home and it will hold a room’s attention.