cedar trees, daisugi, japan, miyawaki method, planting trees, sustainability

A Medieval Japanese Technique That Grows Cedar Trees Super Straight

Most of you have heard about the Japanese art of “bonsai,” a technique that allows people to raise miniature versions of trees. However, have you heard of a method called “daisugi”? Unlike bonsai, daisugi enables the Japanese to raise cedar trees that are perfectly straight and that do not have any knots. Growing cedar trees straight up ...

Jessica Kneipp

A man scaling a cedar tree.