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The Japanese, in contact with the art of Bonsai, "record" the manner in which they were created, so as to "simplify" their aesthetic evaluation.
These rules commonly called "Japanese classic styles", also served to simplify and ensure, the aesthetic maintenance of the Bonsai over generations.
These styles are inspired by the shapes that the trees create in nature, perfected to detail through the Bonsai technique.
Although there are many more, and of each various derivations, we will try to retract in a simplified way, some of the main "Japanese classic styles".
Hokidashi (Japanese name) - Round canopy tree, usually with the straight trunk, we can see it in nature in various species and locations (e.g. orange tree).
Moyogi - Informal law, tree whose trunk presents several curves with legades on the outer side of each curve.
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Chokan - Formal law, straight trunk tree, with several legates distributed around it.
Fukinagashi - By the wind, we easily see trees in nature take this form, along the coastal zones with dominant winds on the sea side.
Yose–eu - Forest, set of various trees of the same species, of different heights and thicknesses of trunk combined together in harmony.
Sekijojo - Caught to the rock, plant whose roots “brace and swallow” a rock forming a set in deep balance, in this style the plant feeds on the soil that lies in the vase under the rock.
Is-hitsuki - Planted on the rock, one or more plants planted on a rock that serves as a vase seen to contain soil in cavities on the rock itself.
Kengai - Cascade, plant whose apex grows down, it is usual to see trees in nature acquire this form when they grow in mountains where the weight of snow and the winds grow them down protecting themselves by the hillside itself.
Han-kengai - Half cascade, in this style is the first leg that extends down, having a dominant movement on the apex.
Sharimiki - Plant with several dead wood zones, in this style more important than the shape of Bonsai (which can even be included in another style, is the amount of dead trunk zones (shari), well with dead branches (jin), usually represents a fairly old tree and fused by weather conditions.
Neagari - Exposed roots, in this style the base of the plant is composed of several exposed roots, such as soil erosion and constant flooding.
Bunjingi - Literary, it owes its name to the “Letters”, artists who isolated themselves in the mountains to inspire themselves, and later painted in their books and pictures trees with these forms acquired by growing in arduous conditions at the top of the mountains. It is a style of fluid lines in which the green mass only has a small representation. St Bonsai in which the strong line is the height and that the emptiness predominates.
Often in a single tree gather more than a style, as well as not all Bonsai have to fit in one of these styles, even in nature there are trees with shapes that do not fit in any style.
In short, if our Bonsai has no classic “Bonsai” (classic style), it can always be a perfect miniature tree.