I had the pleasure to visit this week and take a class with Peter, have to say what a kind, humble and generous man, a wonderful life's work on display. Will return next year with the rest of the family. Thanks again for your teaching Peter. Phil.
I have a luck to see your tanuki 3 days ago and it was great pleasure. Thank you for time we spent together, for your kindness and for your tips and lesson. Lukas from Poland. 😊
Thank you Peter, very interesting lesson on creating a Tanuki for the future, your friend has some fantastic driftwood pieces that would make great Tanuki’s.
Off topic but that’s a gorgeous shirt Peter! 😍Beautiful design! I must see if I can something similar. Btw, thanks as always for the instructive video.
Excellent example! I like to collect pieces of driftwood, they are in and of themselves nature's artworks. Every now and then I have some younger tree that is just too leggy to do anything with in the foreseeable future, so I take a well-suited driftwood and find different ways to combine it with the tree. In just a couple growing seasons I have something I am very happy with which would have taken decades to replicate using standard bonsai growing techniques.
Well said. They are an excellent way to see some quick(ish) results while exploring the characteristics of various species. If people don't like them, don't make them.
Brilliant Mr Peter Chann many thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips. Keep the dream alive son Aussie Aussie Aussie GDAY MATE from brisbane Australia
Peter! Thank you so much! I found your channel 3 years ago, and got stuck in. None of my little trees are going to be entering shows, but they’re all beautiful, I love them, and I only realised I’d be able to take care of them after watching your videos. Love the way you broke this hobby down to the essentials so we could all find it accessible. Thank you sir
Nice as every time. Alternative but too late: at 13:00, choosed the bigest branch/trunk as main trunk what I understand. What would had happened using instead the more left one as central and then have left and right one to come up outside?😊
Most of us in America who know about Tanuki are probably most familiar with the shop owner in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series who puts you into massive debt by giving you a house. Every time you pay the mortgage off he increases the size of it with a new addition, without your permission. His name is Tom Nook.
Hello,, Herons Bonsai,, I am really enjoying this video of Tanuki,, I will have to keep eye out for driftwood of a harder wood species,, how about white pine N, C, USA.. mountain lake ... Lots of that driftwood around lake... Then find good flexible like pine or juniper... I have learned much from this video,, cable ties easy to find,, very nice ,, you make it look so easy,, 🙂🐦🐝🌲✋🙏
I lernt the hard way lost so many specimens from shaping mainly Xmas trees in my hot flat , i have afew privit 3 tea tree saplings and a tea tree thats 16 yrs old and has been the donor for sapllings , the rest of my potential bonsai are outside bushing out nicely 😊
Hi Peter, I've a question: I thought about using a pressure washer for washing roots of juniper, then put the main trunk inside the dead wood, cover roots with soil at the base and last roll up juniper branches around the dead wood. Do you think it works? Thank you for the useful tanuki sharing knowledge, I appreciate so much!
Yes, and It is held to be shrewd, capable of deception. Hence the name which refers to the fact that such a bonsai is created with the intent of trying to show off as an old specimen
I’ve never met anyone who has tried to “show off” or be deceptive with a tanuki. Rather than acting as some kind of self appointed arbiter of what is or isn’t acceptable I prefer to remain non-judgmental and admire what is really just another bonsai technique. After all, the entire art is one of deception.
I think the reference is specifically to the legend that tanuki can shapeshift, disguising themselves (or parts of themselves) as various common objects in order to hide in plain sight, or play tricks on the unsuspecting. They're usually depicted as harmless pranksters, not particularly malicious and certainly not dangerous. In fact, quite often the stories involve their disguises backfiring in some comical way. Point is I don't think the implication of the name is of fraud or anything quite so ill-intentioned, but rather simply a thing that is playfully disguised as something it is not. It's a deception, maybe even a convincing one, but more on the level of a magic trick than some kind of scam.
I don’t understand the statement that, “in most cases the driftwood is quite natural.” Would you be kind enough to explain? Surely, the live tree was not adrift, right? Is it that you are using the term, “driftwood “ figuratively, meaning that the dead, denuded wood of the tree is, “driftwood-like” in appearance? Forgive my ignorance. Thank you. Wonderful, exciting possibilities in this show.
Its a piece of deadwood attached to a live tree over time they fuse together. Best pieces of wood come from beaches and seas as the salt preserves and smooths them out.Then once fastened together preserve with lime sulphur.
@@yoteslaya7296 How can I put this without sounding offensive? I know, I'll first add a winking smiley 😉to soften the blow and then say, with a disarming smile, that I really don't care what you or anyone else thinks. I have no interest in showing my trees (should any of them ever be good enough) so the rules and regulations of an organisation in Japan or anywhere else are meaningless to me. I create, nurture and develop them for the pleasure they give me. Nobody else. I do not grow bonsai for the approval or approbation of others. If that's your thing then good for you, I certainly won't be the one telling you how to enjoy your hobby. Working on my trees relaxes me and is probably the closest I will come to meditation. It brings me peace, calm and removes me from things like having people pass judgement on others for the crime of not conforming to 'their' version of what is acceptable. What a dull world it would be if we all did the same thing. "tanuki is literally fake bonsai". Bonsai itself is a deception. Among your collection do you have any that are root over rock? Cascade or semi-cascade? Groups? Do any have jin or shari? Air layers? If so I assume that they all acquired those styles and features naturally and without any pruning, wiring or other training? If they didn't then what makes any of those trees more genuine than a tanuki? Some people add rocks to their trees, others add dead wood. Try not being offended by what other people do with their trees and enjoy your own. The world's a nicer place when we do that.
@@yoteslaya7296 They aren't fake if you are honest about what they are. Its just another style of arranging and styling a tree. And Japanese show groups are hardly the end all and be all of bonsai.
@@TheSunnyTrails I must have missed the part where anyone suggested doing that. My impression is that tanuki are created while wearing a slight grin, everyone is in on the joke. I admire a well executed tanuki in the same way I do other styles. I don’t for one moment believe that my Chinese Elm on tufa or Mugo Pine on a slate slab got there by themselves. Nor do I believe that any of my trees coincidentally grew in pots. It’s meant to be fun, an enjoyable pastime.
I had the pleasure to visit this week and take a class with Peter, have to say what a kind, humble and generous man, a wonderful life's work on display.
Will return next year with the rest of the family.
Thanks again for your teaching Peter.
Phil.
I have a luck to see your tanuki 3 days ago and it was great pleasure. Thank you for time we spent together, for your kindness and for your tips and lesson. Lukas from Poland. 😊
It was a pleasure meeting you and your family at Herons last weekend.
Beautifully explained and created. Thank you!
Thank you Peter, very interesting lesson on creating a Tanuki for the future, your friend has some fantastic driftwood pieces that would make great Tanuki’s.
Peter was my teacher over 35 years ago , I still have all his books that he signed to me & still enjoy coming here to see him on RUclips 🙏
Thank you very much Peter🙏🏿💙you look fantastic😘✨️
Another very valuable video. Thank you Peter. 👩🏻🌾🪴
Thx for sharing Peter
That is beautiful! I always get so excited by the potential over time. I hope this becomes a stunning tanuki!
Thx for sharing sir from phillippines
Ive been watching you like mad since i found your channel. I can't wait to go searching for the perfect driftwood for my juniper!
Off topic but that’s a gorgeous shirt Peter! 😍Beautiful design! I must see if I can something similar.
Btw, thanks as always for the instructive video.
Bangkok street market. You've got to haggle. 😉
Excellent example!
I like to collect pieces of driftwood, they are in and of themselves nature's artworks. Every now and then I have some younger tree that is just too leggy to do anything with in the foreseeable future, so I take a well-suited driftwood and find different ways to combine it with the tree. In just a couple growing seasons I have something I am very happy with which would have taken decades to replicate using standard bonsai growing techniques.
Well said. They are an excellent way to see some quick(ish) results while exploring the characteristics of various species.
If people don't like them, don't make them.
Brilliant Mr Peter Chann many thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips. Keep the dream alive son Aussie Aussie Aussie GDAY MATE from brisbane Australia
Lovely!
Peter! Thank you so much! I found your channel 3 years ago, and got stuck in. None of my little trees are going to be entering shows, but they’re all beautiful, I love them, and I only realised I’d be able to take care of them after watching your videos. Love the way you broke this hobby down to the essentials so we could all find it accessible. Thank you sir
Good video👍
Nice as every time. Alternative but too late: at 13:00, choosed the bigest branch/trunk as main trunk what I understand. What would had happened using instead the more left one as central and then have left and right one to come up outside?😊
Most of us in America who know about Tanuki are probably most familiar with the shop owner in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series who puts you into massive debt by giving you a house. Every time you pay the mortgage off he increases the size of it with a new addition, without your permission. His name is Tom Nook.
I instantly think of the Tanuki suit in Mario 3 every time!
Hello,, Herons Bonsai,, I am really enjoying this video of Tanuki,, I will have to keep eye out for driftwood of a harder wood species,, how about white pine N, C, USA.. mountain lake ... Lots of that driftwood around lake... Then find good flexible like pine or juniper... I have learned much from this video,, cable ties easy to find,, very nice ,, you make it look so easy,, 🙂🐦🐝🌲✋🙏
Rose bush is good very strong, I collect bits from my rosemary,rosebush that i had , lavender and ivy
Nice con work cheers 😮
I like it alot ,i am very inspired
Nice sharing bonsai
Wonderful video , thank you, any chance we can see what it looks like now.
I’m guessing it looks exactly the same, it wouldn’t have grown much in a few weeks. 😉
Idk if they were on the same page lol i can feel the idk tension through the screen haha. I wanna make one of these..looks cool
Tanuki bonsai making is a long journey,..... ........
I lernt the hard way lost so many specimens from shaping mainly Xmas trees in my hot flat , i have afew privit 3 tea tree saplings and a tea tree thats 16 yrs old and has been the donor for sapllings , the rest of my potential bonsai are outside bushing out nicely 😊
Hi Peter, I've a question: I thought about using a pressure washer for washing roots of juniper, then put the main trunk inside the dead wood, cover roots with soil at the base and last roll up juniper branches around the dead wood. Do you think it works? Thank you for the useful tanuki sharing knowledge, I appreciate so much!
Not sure I would bare root the tree to be honest. Can you not achieve the same effect without stripping the root ball?
A tanuki is a Japanese raccoon dog (related to domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals and other species)
Yes, and It is held to be shrewd, capable of deception. Hence the name which refers to the fact that such a bonsai is created with the intent of trying to show off as an old specimen
I’ve never met anyone who has tried to “show off” or be deceptive with a tanuki.
Rather than acting as some kind of self appointed arbiter of what is or isn’t acceptable I prefer to remain non-judgmental and admire what is really just another bonsai technique. After all, the entire art is one of deception.
I think the reference is specifically to the legend that tanuki can shapeshift, disguising themselves (or parts of themselves) as various common objects in order to hide in plain sight, or play tricks on the unsuspecting. They're usually depicted as harmless pranksters, not particularly malicious and certainly not dangerous. In fact, quite often the stories involve their disguises backfiring in some comical way.
Point is I don't think the implication of the name is of fraud or anything quite so ill-intentioned, but rather simply a thing that is playfully disguised as something it is not. It's a deception, maybe even a convincing one, but more on the level of a magic trick than some kind of scam.
Assume I want to try this
What's this composition of rocks in 36:13 Could you elaborate on it??
Did you mean the very large rock on which the larches were planted ?- If so then that is Japanese volcanic pumice - its very light in weight.
Hi, weren't you going to clean/sandblast theTanuki before adding the new tree?
We were going to clean the other trunks but not this one which we worked on.
could do cactus bonsai with pencil cactus or Christmas Cactus, or desert rose
Haha😂Oh gosh!!!!
Japanese raccoondogs, I never saw a wild one in Japan, but the statues are everywere.
Crikey Peter, whatever you do don't start adding Penjing figurines to any of your trees. RUclips will have a meltdown.
Ha Ha !!
"Other fat parts." 😂 lowbrow humor at its finest! 😂👍
Hi,, my lake I like to fish has drift wood,,, 🙂,,
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Uncle Chan... The Bob Ross of bonsai!!!😊😊😊
Why do people say juniper grow fast both of mine actually are growing very slow
Depends on the variety of juniper and how you grow them.
I don’t understand the statement that, “in most cases the driftwood is quite natural.” Would you be kind enough to explain? Surely, the live tree was not adrift, right? Is it that you are using the term, “driftwood “ figuratively, meaning that the dead, denuded wood of the tree is, “driftwood-like” in appearance? Forgive my ignorance. Thank you. Wonderful, exciting possibilities in this show.
Figuratively.
Its a piece of deadwood attached to a live tree over time they fuse together. Best pieces of wood come from beaches and seas as the salt preserves and smooths them out.Then once fastened together preserve with lime sulphur.
It means the dead bits you get on live conifers
who would buy tanuki?
Many people, me included. There's nothing wrong with it as long as you are honest.
Life would be dull if we all liked and did the same things.
@@paulcatanach8031 tanuki is literally fake bonsai. They're not even allowed in bonsai shows in japan
@@yoteslaya7296 Does that matter?
@@yoteslaya7296 How can I put this without sounding offensive? I know, I'll first add a winking smiley 😉to soften the blow and then say, with a disarming smile, that I really don't care what you or anyone else thinks.
I have no interest in showing my trees (should any of them ever be good enough) so the rules and regulations of an organisation in Japan or anywhere else are meaningless to me.
I create, nurture and develop them for the pleasure they give me. Nobody else. I do not grow bonsai for the approval or approbation of others. If that's your thing then good for you, I certainly won't be the one telling you how to enjoy your hobby.
Working on my trees relaxes me and is probably the closest I will come to meditation. It brings me peace, calm and removes me from things like having people pass judgement on others for the crime of not conforming to 'their' version of what is acceptable. What a dull world it would be if we all did the same thing.
"tanuki is literally fake bonsai".
Bonsai itself is a deception.
Among your collection do you have any that are root over rock? Cascade or semi-cascade? Groups? Do any have jin or shari? Air layers? If so I assume that they all acquired those styles and features naturally and without any pruning, wiring or other training? If they didn't then what makes any of those trees more genuine than a tanuki? Some people add rocks to their trees, others add dead wood.
Try not being offended by what other people do with their trees and enjoy your own. The world's a nicer place when we do that.
@@yoteslaya7296 They aren't fake if you are honest about what they are. Its just another style of arranging and styling a tree. And Japanese show groups are hardly the end all and be all of bonsai.
Nah, sorry. Not keen on tanuki. Too contrived for me.
Then why click on a video about making tanuki?
@@samlomb2093 😅good question.
There are many things in this world that aren’t for me but I don’t feel the need to tell everyone.
Oh wait, I just did. 🙄
Tanuki - the technique and style istelf- is ok when it’s told it is tanuki. When you sell a tree that’s tanuki saying it’s real, is when it’s wrong
@@TheSunnyTrails I must have missed the part where anyone suggested doing that. My impression is that tanuki are created while wearing a slight grin, everyone is in on the joke.
I admire a well executed tanuki in the same way I do other styles. I don’t for one moment believe that my Chinese Elm on tufa or Mugo Pine on a slate slab got there by themselves. Nor do I believe that any of my trees coincidentally grew in pots.
It’s meant to be fun, an enjoyable pastime.