Japanese Art: Bonsai [042]

Title Japanese Art: Bonsai [042]
Photo Number Box 58, Special Lectures, C & J Gardens L/R, 44
Description Photo shows a bonsai display: Quince tree
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1981
Subject Bonsai--Japan--Photographs; Trees; Quince
Keywords Art; Displays
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Spatial Coverage Japan
Caption on Slide Bonsai display, Quince / Boke, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Bonsai (lit. plantings in tray, from bon, a tray or low-sided pot and sai, a planting or plantings) is a Japanese art form using miniature trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of penjing from which the art originated, and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese hòn non bộ. The Japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years, and has its own aesthetics and terminology.--Wikipedia Note: Similar to images with file names: bonsai_japanese_019 and sl_japangeneral219, with Date.Original provided as: 1983 for both images. Note: Original caption for this image provided as: Boke (Quince bonsai), Japan.
Type Image
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Rights
ARK ark:/87278/s67377ns
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 337870
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67377ns