For my midterm I went to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. They were having a re opening of the Japanese garden called Tofuku-ji and on top of that they just re opened a huge variety of Bonsai trees from 1968. I choose this event in particular because of my family on my mom’s side. We are part Japanese and my grandpa has a couple Bonsai trees in his backyard. I don’t see him too often so seeing all these trees bring back happy memories from when I used to help cut them and plant them. The event actually went better than I thought it was going to be. We had a guide take us around to each section and briefly describe some information on the trees. I learned a lot from just listening to him and top of that we were given a little book that has more details about it. …show more content…
You didn’t hear much but nature filling your ears and the people talking. It was a very nice day outside and good vibes were being past. What stood out the most to me was there Japanese sand and stone garden. It was just a masterpiece of art made out of sand and rocks. On top of that it was huge in size and everything was perfectly done. It always amazes me when you see how much time must have been spent doing it and the amount of effort just blows my mind. The founder of this garden was Kujo Michiie. The element I want to focus on is the sculpture of the Bonsai trees. The main reason is because a lot of people look at it and assume that it just grows like that and people trim it. But actually every time the tree grows you have to cut it a particular way for it to remain its shape. So basically every time it grows you have to sculpture it into its