The XI Bonsai & Suiseki Exhibition “City of Frascati"

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City Municipal Palace of Frascati, home of the event

Frascati, May 22nd -24th 2009

XI Bonsai & Suiseki Exhibition

“City of Frascati”

Report by Mrs.Daniela Schifano

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The eleventh edition of the "Bonsai & Suiseki Exhibition City of Frascati", organized by the “Bonsai Club Roman Castles“ has taken place : three days during which, enthusiasts and not, could admire the outstanding specimen of Bonsai & Suiseki in exhibition in an atmosphere where the attendance of experts of the other Japanese disciplines housed, such as Ikebana and Shodo, has given rise to an unique occasion of confrontation and synergy.

Thanks to the enthusiasm and to the availability of the Frascati Major Mr. Franco Posa, the event has been held in the premises of the City Municipal Palace of Frascati magnificently frescoed and furnished.

Welcome tokonoma

As member of the Organizing Club , I have attended to all the phases of the event : I have given some assistance in the staging of the exhibition spaces, a moment of great labour but also of similar satisfaction when one catches that the organizing efforts of the Club give life to an harmonic environment where to display at one’s best. I have taken part to the “disassembly”, perhaps the most unhappy moment but during which one can make mentally a first balance of the present and give appointment to the next edition. I have received and assisted the public interested with suiseki : the stones, placed in a reserved small room were of great quality and effect, and many have been the question and the curiosity of visitors, but always with same culminating comments : "But are they really natural" ?

An example for all : an enthusiast and happy lady has acknowledged herself in the common passion for suiseki and has come back on next day to let us see the result of many years’ stones collecting. I have followed with interest the demonstrations of Bonsai technique made by the IBS Instructor Mr. Mirco Tedeschi, sole judge of the event, and who among other things has enriched our knowledge commenting one by one all tokonomas made ready.


A partial view of the main hall	A moment of the workshop held by IBS Instructor Mr. Mirco Tedeschi	The Ikebana dimostration of Mrs. Lina Alicino

I have appreciated the delicate Ikebana exhibited by the Sogetsu School of Tokyo, and the demonstration of the Grand Master of the Tokyo Sogetsu School President of Ranson Study Group Mrs. Lina Alicino. The choice of essences and of the pots for the Kusamono plants and their display have been our contact points .

Mr. Riccardo Sirica, Shodo Master , the Japanese calligraphy, has commented the style of exposed scrolls, putting the accent on the quality of calligraphy and evidencing the difference between the Japanese writing and that Chinese.

So a three days during which numerous have been for “living” bonsai , suiseki and not only, together with other friends, being them experts, singles enthusiast or beginners.

For description : the prize for the "Best Suiseki Displayed" has been given , ex aequo, to the following Suiseki :