Iris wrote:


According to the school of Rabbi Yuji Yoshimura, what we call
in English a tray
landscape is a bonkei. According to the school of Rabbi Toshio
Kawamoto, a
more-or-less permanent arrangement of trees, rocks, and
accessory plants is a
saikei (the word was coined about 30 years ago). We usually
call these in
English a tray landscape.

A Chinese penjing is something else. We usually give that name
to a
land-and-water arrangement in the style of Quing Quang Zao.

_We_ may, but Zao, in a presentation at BCI this year, and Hu
Yunha, in "Penjing: The Chinese Art of Minature Gardens" both use
the term penjing to include what we and the Japanese call
"bonsai" as well as tray landscapes with stones and -- many
times, but not in every case -- various plants as well as
figurines.

But, you can get totally lost, and thoroughly mixed up with
terminology. And don't forget the similar Vietnamese construct,
Hon Non Bo.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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