An East Bay bonsai master is inspiring the next generation to find stories inside the trees

Name: An East Bay bonsai master is inspiring the next generation to find stories inside the trees
Uploaded: 2025-05-12T17:49:00-0700
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: For more than 50-years, a tiny movement has grown in the East Bay thanks to Dennis Makishima. Ryan Yamamoto talks to the man who is considered by many, a master of Aesthetic Pruning, and an influential figure in California’s bonsai culture: the Japanese art of shaping and cultivating miniature trees.

For more than 50-years, a tiny movement has grown in the East Bay thanks to Dennis Makishima. Ryan Yamamoto talks to the man who is considered by many, a master of Aesthetic Pruning, and an influential figure in California’s bonsai culture: the Japanese art of shaping and cultivating miniature trees.