My dear readers, I’d love to introduce you to the baroque and complex art of daisugi technique of growing cedar trees. Now before sinking our teeth deeper into this discussion, I’d like to inform you all that this blog will contain a plethora of words and expressions which find their origin in oriental languages (Japanese primarily) , I’ll try to translate every word that might cause dissonance. So translating the name of the technique itself, Daisugi literally means Platform Cedar. It is a Horticulture technique dating back to the 15th century in the Muramachi period, discovered just outside Kyoto, in the Land of the Rising Sun. The technique is a revered cultural phenomenon that was used to grow Kityama trees. Kitayama trees are known as Cedar in english and Devdaar in hindi. These trees possess certain characteristics that made them linked to this technique for eternity. These trees also hold great significance in Japanese culture as they tend to be the sole constituents of the framework for traditional tea shops and artistic alcoves called . Tokonoma is essentially a specialized space or room, whose purpose is to display artistic pieces and valuable items. The demand for these trees drove the Japanese natives to discover a method that proved to be an equalizer in terms of supply and demand.
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