Bonsai of Juniper Itoigawa.
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• Height: 31 cm (excluding pot)

• Width: 46 cm

• Trunk: 18 cm

• Pot: 12 x 24 x 24 cm

Photos taken in March 2026

Juniper Itoigawa bonsai

This Juniper Itoigawa bonsai shows the qualities that made the variety the most coveted juniper in the art. The foliage is fine, soft to the eye, and a deep saturated green that holds its colour through the year, gathering into dense pads that float around the trunk line. Where the live veins twist against pale deadwood, the tree gains the drama that collectors look for in a shimpaku. It comes in the pot shown and is ready to display straight away.

Itoigawa is the juniper that growers reach for when they want refinement rather than mere vigour. Its needling stays tight and scale-like, never coarse, and that quality lets the eye travel along the movement of the trunk without distraction. Set against a plain background or in a quiet corner, a tree like this reads as a small piece of mountain landscape brought indoors.

Heritage

The name comes from the Itoigawa region of Japan, where this prized form of shimpaku juniper was found growing on rugged coastal mountains. It became the benchmark variety in Japanese bonsai, valued for its compact foliage and its willingness to form striking jin and shari. To own an Itoigawa is to hold a direct link to that tradition of windswept ridgeline trees rendered in miniature, a thread that runs through generations of Japanese masters.

About this specimen

This particular tree balances live foliage and deadwood with a confident trunk line, and the pads sit cleanly when viewed from the front. The colour is rich and even, and the silhouette holds together as a single composition. It is one living specimen, photographed as it is, and the pot is included.

An Itoigawa rewards close looking and quiet company. Bring this one home and you take on a juniper with genuine pedigree.