California Bonsai Art II at Kyudo-En: Walking around Kyudo En 2025

A lot has happened since the last time I was active on a blog. Since 2025, this is my fourth computer. One blew up in a lightning storm right after I moved to Lisa's house. I bought another one and it became infected with a virus and my monitor went black. The third computer also became infected with a virus that just laughed at me. I could never get back to a home screen. So this is the fourth computer since 2025. During all that I lost all my pictures. It's funny, or should I say lucky, that when I need an old picture of something I can go to the old blog and download the picture to my computer, but for now I just use it as a library.

What the Hell is Kyudo En?

Kyudo (弓道) is the Japanese Martial Art of Archery, translating to "the Way of the Bow," focusing on spiritual and physical discipline rather than just hitting a target, evolving from samurai archery (kyujutsu) into a path for self-development, emphasizing correct posture, movement (hassetsu), and a unified mind-body-spirit.

For me, The journey is always much more rewarding than the destination. That's why I came across Kyudo which emphasizes self development.

Last summer I built the Torri Gate entrance to the garden.

The garden has a Samurai background.

Old Oshio Beni from Fujimoto here in town.

Two California Junipers that made it thru the Fertilizer debacle of 2021. I lost 63 trees that summer. Some of my best stuff that I worked years on.

My Tokonoma.

Old Elm in a Literati style. Mt Fuji in snow.

On to the pot storage. I just sold over 600.00 dollars in pots at a recent swap meet last month. I was selling Shohin pots at 5.00 a piece, so you know how many pots I sold. The bottom of those shelves used to be a lot more full, but I sold about a dozen very large pots I won't need anymore.