Shohin Bonsai Size - Bonsai Nature | Ideas for Bonsai

Shito these are the smallest common size of bonsai tree.

Shohin bonsai size. Make offer oval blue glazed shohin size bonsai tree pot by heian kouzan 5 1 4 shohin size hand painted bonsai tree pot by yuki shosek 3 by 2 1 2 298 00. Under 10 cm 4 tall. Shohin bonsai which are roughly between 10 and 21 cm deserve their own size pots. Known as fingertip size they grow generally between two and four inches in height.

Here are the broad categories we use which is more or less the same as that used by the all japan shohin bonsai association. They grow between two and six inches in height. Making up 80 of all domestic bonsai plants. Shohin bonsai small up to 8 inch 20 cm in height.

You can t go wrong with a shohin. Small and refined with embellishment or hand painted glaze and in many different colours of clay and glaze there is a matching scale for each shohin. The term shohin simply means miniature bonsai 1 shito or kehitsuba finger tip bonsai tiny pea poppy seed size smaller than or equal to 3 inches 2 mame baby bonsai little bean 2 to 6 inches 1 and 2 may be called shohin. Mame or mini bonsai.

Although no exact rules were ever formulated a tree is considered to be a shohin bonsai when under 25 cm 10 tall. Up to 10cm 4 inches. Keishi bonsai thumb size up to 1 inch 2 5 cm in height shito bonsai very small up to 3 inch 7 5 cm in height mame bonsai mini up to 6 inch 15 cm in height shohin bonsai small up to 8 inch 20 cm in height. Shohin these bonsai trees are in a category that overlaps others leading to the disuse of the name.

Experts believe that you must be able to hold the shohin tree in one hand indicating the exact measure of the height of the tree is not strictly important. Mame bonsai trees are even smaller. Over 20cm 8 inch to around 25 35cm 10 14 inches. Often they can be found in pots no larger than a thimble leading to their other name the thimble bonsai.