Nic: I wouldn't put much stock in it. I just got these straight
out of Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary.
Much more useful is Yuji Yoshimura's classic listing of
Japanese names for trees which can be found in Appendix 3 of
Yoshimura & Halford's The Japanese Art of Miniature Trees and
Landscapes. In the version I'm looking at now, it is on pp.
184-205. There are 340 listings from abura-giri to zumi.
Since this is a classic bonsai book, long in print, which
everyone who is serious about bonsai should have, I recommend
that you simply refer them to this resource for Japanese tree
names.

Alan Walker
http://bonsai-bci.com http://LCBSBonsai.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas Steenhout

This info is good. I'll be adding it up in our "Bonsai
Dictionary", could
be useful. That is, I'll add it now, and it'll appear when the
revamp of
the site goes public, which is a while away still. Too much to
do

On 15/10/2004 15:19:39, wrote:
Iris: FWIW Dept.
Natsu = summer
Koyu = peculiar or characteristic
Ki = tree

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