Suggested Timeline for the Development of Magical Miniature Landscapes, Notes

A SUGGESTED TIMELINE
for the Development of Magical Miniature Landscapes,
NOTES (Cont.)

Up to Year 1

1 to 899

900 to 1499

1500 to 1799

1800 to 1999

2000 to present

Notes

Baran, Robert J. "A Suggested Timeline for the Development of Magical Miniature Landscapes,"
http://www.magiminiland.org/BigPicture/Timeline4b.html, version dated 1 April 2026.

NOTES

YEAR 1800 to 1999 C.E. (320) http://www.magiminiland.org/Paintings/China1644to1911.html. (321) Toshihiro, Yonetami "Wiring," Bonsai Today, No. 1, May-June 1989, pg. 20; Chan, Peter Bonsai Secrets (Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.), pg. 115; Koreshoff, pp. 81-83; http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/Bertin.html. (322) http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/Main.html; http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/Livingstone.html; http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/Horticulturist1847.html; http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/Fortune.html; http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/Hickok.html. (323) Stuart in Mowry, pg. 92, and Mowry, pg. 184. (324) Simonyi, Tom per English translation from a Chinese colleague, posted 02 Jun 2010, http://ibonsaiclub.forumotion.com/t3190-excerpt-from-the-poet-gong-zizhen-1792-1841#31784. (325) Naka, BT II, pp. 306, 322; Katayama, pg. 20. (326) Goodrich, L. Carrington and Nigel Cameron The Face of China As Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912 (New York: Aperture, Inc.; 1978), pg. 149; "Famine"; Yang, Dennis Tao "China's Agricultural Crisis and Famine of 1959-1961: A Survey and Comparison to Soviet Famines," Comparative Economic Studies (2008) 50, 1-29. doi:10.1057/ces.2008.4. (327) Redding, "Art of the Mud Man"; Aradi, Peter "Visiting with the Masters -- Zhao Qingquan," Bonsai Journal, ABS, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 32-33. (328) Wu, Yee-Sun Man Lung Garden Artistic Pot Plants (Hong Kong: Wing-Lung Bank Ltd., 1969), pg. 63. (329) http://www.magiminiland.org/Paintings/China1644to1911.html. (330) "Taiwan under Japanese rule," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_occupation. (331) Koreshoff, pg. 7-8; Naka, John "Bunjin-Gi or Bunjin Bonsai,"Bonsai in California, 1989, Vol. 23, pg. 48; Covello and Yoshimura, pg. 25; Toru, Yoda, "Bonsai as Miniscule Garden," 2022. (332) http://www.magiminiland.org/Books/18001849.html; "Japanese 'Penjing' From an 1826 [sic] Book" by Bonsai Penjing & More, October 7, 2016. (333) Nozaki, pp. 25-26; O'Connell, Jean "The Art of Bonsai," Science Digest, March 1970, pg. 38; http://www.magiminiland.org/1800Refs/GC1875.html; Lind, Gunter "Art and Kimura," http://www.bonsaipots.net/index.php?page=art-and-kimura. (334) http://www.magiminiland.org/Books/18001849.html. (335a) http://www.magiminiland.org/Paintings/Japan1800to1868.html. (335b) Yamada, Kamajiro "Present Day Literati Bonsai," International Bonsai, Winter/81, pg. 14. (336) Yamada, Tomio "Fundamentals of Wiring Bonsai," International Bonsai, IBA, 2005/No. 4, pg. 10-11; Yamanaka, Kazuki "The Shimpaku Juniper: Its Secret History," "Chapter II. First Shimpaku: 'Ishizuchi Shimpaku'," http://web.archive.org/web/20040617055328/www.bonsai-wbff.org/shimpaku/shim2.shtml; Hill, Warren "Reflections on Japan," NBF Bulletin, Winter 2000, Vol. XI, No. 2, pg. 5; Peter Ben Facebook post June 24, 2002, partially based on Wikipedia article "Emperor Meiji" in FB Messenger response to RJB question. (337) Nozaki, pg. 43; Koreshoff, pg. 8; Donovan, Earl H. "The Spirit of Bunjin," Bonsai Journal, American Bonsai Society, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1978, pg. 30; Toru, Yoda, "Bonsai as Miniscule Garden," 2022. (338) Nozaki, pg. 26; Hill, pg. 5. (339) Yamanaka, Kazuki "The Shimpaku Juniper: Its Secret History," "Chapter I. Discovery of Shimpaku," http://www.bonsai-wbff.org/shimpaku/shim1.shtml, http://www.magiminiland.org/Days/DaysMayb.html, May 20; http://www.magiminiland.org/Days/DaysSepb.html, September 13; John Romano's "History of Shohin" slideshow as presented during Zoom call to Toronto Bonsai Society, January 12, 2026. (340) Marushima, Hideo "A Historical Study on the Names of Chinese Penjing and Japanese Bonsai" (Lands. Stud. 1996; 60:36-45). (340a) Yanagisawa, pp. 79-81; Hirota, Jozan Bonkei, Tray Landscapes (Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1970), pp. 24-28; Koehn, pg. 2. (341) Nippon Bonsai Association, pg. 153; "Lich su bonsai," a Vietnamese article that contains a lot of unacknowledged material from RJB's researches but also some info we hadn't come across before; Ōkuma, Toshiyuki "The Meaning of Bonsai: Tradition and the Japanese Aesthetic," 2010. (342) Nozaki, pg. 24; Itoh, Yoshimi "Bonsai Origins," Bonsai Journal, ABS, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1969, pg. 3, Yamanaka, Kazuki "The Shimpaku Juniper: Its Secret History, Chapter I, Discovery of Shimpaku," http://www.bonsai-wbff.org/shimpaku/shim1.shtml. (343) "Suiseki: A World of Understated Beauty within Natural Stone," NHK World on Demand: Core Kyoto, broadcast on-line on January 20, 2016. (344a) Nippon Bonsai Association, pg. 153. 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