I'm looking for any books that deal primarily with small bonsai
(mame
or shohin). I have both of Gustafson's books and Miniature
Bonsai by
Kuo-cheng. I haven't been able to find any others. Does
anyone have
any suggestions?

In addition to those, I have:

Miniature Bonsai by Katayama (1974). It is in Japanese but has
excellent how-to illustrations and inspirational pics of trees in
his collection. Hard to find. I got mine in Japan.

I also have Katayama's "the Mini-Bonsai Hobby" in English (also
1974). Pretty basic. Few illustrations.

Bonsai Miniatures, a smaller-than-pocket-book size, ring-bound
book(let) by Zeko Nakamura, first printed in 1973 but still
available). Is basic but useful. Color pics of (mostly
uninspiring) trees.

The most recent mini-bonsai book is Lisa Tajima's "Pop Bonsai"
(2004). It's fun and has some good ideas in it. The trees are
NOT traditional -- but that's OK with tiny trees.

Then, Kyosuke Gun has a VERY disappointing book out ("Mini
Bonsai - 1993). It too is in Japanese with how-to drawings, but
they're much more confusing than Katayama's (above). Virtually
no photos. Go to his Website before you order this from Japan
Trading Co (via his website). He has several others, but you are
shooting blind with the subject matter and if they're no better
than this one . . . See: http://mini-bonsai.com/indexe.html then
search for "shohin" in Google and you will find the Japanese
Shohin Society page (some in English) and others.

Issues 45-46 of Bonsai Today have galleries of the 50 best
shohin.

International Bonsai 1992 No. 3 and 2002 No. 2 are both devoted
to miniature bonsai and have some very good info and pics. Both
are available as back issues (or were last time I checked).

Hope this helps. I look forward to anyone else coming up with
other books.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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