Editing Bonsai (section)

==={{nihongo|||Hachi no ki}}===
[[File:Bonsai, "Sandai Shogun".jpg|thumb|Japanese white pine, "Sandai Shogun" (The Third Shogun), approximately 550 years old, Imperial Collection, 1938]]
Around the 14th century, the term for dwarf potted trees was {{nihongo|"the bowl's tree"|鉢の木|hachi no ki}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magiminiland.org/HachiNoKi.html  |title= Hachi-No-Ki |publisher=Magical Miniature Landscapes | access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref> This indicated use of a fairly deep pot rather than the shallow pot denoted by the eventual term ''bonsai''. {{nihongo3|''The Potted Trees''||Hachi no Ki}} is also the title of a circa 1383 [[noh]] play by [[Zeami Motokiyo]], based on a story about an impoverished [[samurai]] who burns his last three potted trees as firewood to warm a traveling monk. The monk is a disguised official who later rewards the samurai for his actions. In later centuries, [[Woodblock printing in Japan|woodblock]] prints by several artists depicted this popular drama. There was even a fabric design of the same name. Through these and other popular media, bonsai became known to a broad Japanese population.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

[[Bonsai cultivation and care|Bonsai cultivation]] reached a high level of expertise in this period. Bonsai dating to the 17th century have survived to the present. One of the oldest-known living bonsai trees, considered one of the [[National Treasure (Japan)|National Treasures of Japan]], can be seen in the [[Tokyo Imperial Palace]] collection.<ref name="Bonsai Techniques II"/> A five-needle pine (''[[Pinus parviflora|Pinus pentaphylla]]'' var. ''negishi'') known as ''Sandai Shogun'' ({{lang|ja|三代将軍}}, the third [[shogun]]) is documented as having been cared for by [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]].<ref name="Bonsai Techniques II"/><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bonsaiempire.com/blog/oldest-bonsai-trees |title= Oldest Bonsai trees |publisher=Bonsai Empire |access-date=2013-11-11}}</ref> The tree is thought to be at least 500 years old and was trained as a bonsai by 1610.<ref name="Bonsai Techniques II">{{cite book | last=Naka | first=John Yoshio | title= Bonsai Techniques II | publisher=Bonsai Institute of California| year= 1982| page=258}}</ref>

By the end of the 18th century, bonsai cultivation in Japan was becoming widespread and began to interest the general public. In the [[Tenmei|Tenmei era]] (1781–88), an exhibit of traditional dwarf potted pines began to be held every year in [[Kyoto]]. Connoisseurs from five provinces and neighboring areas would bring one or two plants each to the show in order to submit them to visitors for ranking.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite book | author= Nippon Bonsai Association | title=Classic Bonsai of Japan|pages= 151–152}}</ref>