Three-day bonsai show begins
Cultural Correspondent
A three-day bonsai exhibition featuring Bangladesh’s famous indigenous trees –– banyan, sundari, pakur, sewra and arjun –– began at the Women’s Volunteer Association at Dhanmondi in the city on Thursday.
Cultural adviser to the caretaker government Rasheda K Chowdhury inaugurated the 10th annual bonsai show while Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh Masayuki Inoue attended the ceremony as special guest.
‘The exhibition will create more interest among the Bangladeshis about this ancient art,’ said the adviser.
Bangladesh Bonsai Society organised the show where all the big living trees of the country including banyan, sundari, pakur, arjun and chandan are on display in a single gallery.
The artistes made miniature of the large plants and put them on small vases.
The bonsai arts is made as the style of informal upright, cascade, root over rock, slanting, canopy, broom and rock planting, landscape and such other form.
To make a bonsai takes many years. So it is not only a piece of art but also a passion for the artiste, said the organisers.
About 500 pieces of bonsai are on display and will remain open to all till October 18, said the organisers adding the price range of bonsai plants on display varied from Tk 500 to Tk 5 lakh.
Historically, this art originated in China during the dynasty of Han in 200 BC. Later, the Japanese learnt the art of horticultural practice and named it bonsai in their language, which means ‘tray planting’.
The practice of the art of bonsai in Bangladesh is not much old. Some enthusiasts of bonsai formed the Bangladesh Bonsai Society in Dhaka in 1999 and they have been arranging
regular workshops and exhibitions to popularise the art in Bangladesh.
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