Awesome Japanese Blog On Mini (Mame) Bonsai

This is a wonderful & detailed look at how a Japanese bonsai nursery goes about making mini bonsai (huge collection) :

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Pics from Japanese blog

Many stories worth watching are shared below :

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Creating twists & turns of maple no. 25
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18152134.html

Cleaning the seedling tray 1
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18144360.html

Cleaning the seedling tray 2
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18145562.html

Pruning Zelkova
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18143104.html

Air layering a plum tree
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18140425.html

Momiji Shigeru seedlings
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18119687.html

"Self" Grafting
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18114061.html

Grafting
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18105436.html

Pruning
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18051795.html

Pot in pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18047766.html

Ground-layering
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18019683.html

Long internodes even in tiny pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18002464.html

Grow pot to display pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/18000304.htmll

Display pot to grow pot again
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17956337.html

Visualizing
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17952554.html

Grow pot to display pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17951436.html

Repotting for unhealthy roots
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17941137.html

Creating trunk bends
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17930304.html

Seedling tray to grow pot - part 1
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17920979.html

Seedling tray to grow pot - part 2
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17926746.html

Maple seedlings from tray to grow pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17899725.html

Repotting for unhealthy roots
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17925393.html

Pot in pot & root rot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17924103.html

Root pruning & change of pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17916790.html

Seedling tray to display pot - part 1
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17889886.html

Seedling tray to display pot - part 2
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17890253.html

Tall seedlings to dwarf ones - part 1
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17885426.html

Tall seedlings to dwarf ones - part 2
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17886958.html

Seedling tray to grow pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17835069.html

Creating deformed seddling trunks in a tray
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17762720.html

Pot in pot (for extra growth ?)
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17756432.html

Japanese Nursery
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17990041.html

From grow pot to display pot
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/17960025.html

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The original Japanese link : https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/MYBLOG/yblog.html

English translation (poor but better than nothing)