By the 15th century, Japan already faced a shortage of seedlings, as well as land on which to properly cultivate the trees in the first place. Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees creating, in other words, a kind of giant bonsai.
The technique can prevent deforestation and result in perfectly round and straight timber known as Taruki, which are used in the roofs of Japanese teahouses.
Hence this clever solution of using bonsai techniques on trees. Aesthetics aside as far aside as they ever get in Japan, at any rate the lumber produced in this method is 140% as flexible as standard cedar and 200% as dense.
Done right, the technique can prevent deforestation and result in perfectly round and straight timber known as taruki, which are used in the roofs of Japanese teahouses. Smaller, decorative daisugi also exist around Japan but maintaining them can be expensive and time-consuming.
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