young fool - answered rikiu. look how a swept path in a japanese garden should look.h these words, he shook the tree and scattered the fallen leaves along the path. today we are talking about the japanese perception of beauty. a work of art, on the one hand, is an imitation of natural naturalness, on the other, an attempt to bring it to an ideal that does not exist in nature. it's simple, a plant in a pot, here in general, it is generally accepted that everything beautiful is simple; the complexity lies elsewhere - to show this simplicity in all its glory; for most ordinary foreigners, the idea of ​​bonsai essentially boils down to the fact that it is a dwarf tree, which is grown at home from the very beginning, and of course, the main thing that strikes the imagination of an amateur is the indicated age, although in fact it does not mean at all that some five-hundred-year-old red pine tree grows in a pot all its life, are you ready? it is believed that she became a bonsai from 100 to 200 years ago. by the way, the exact age of a tree can only be determined by cutting