Books on kusamono and/or accents

Can anyone recommend a good book/s on kusamono and/or accents? My good lady wife's birthday is coming up and I exhausted all my present-buying options over Christmas.

Harleyrider wrote:Can anyone recommend a good book/s on kusamono and/or accents? My good lady wife's birthday is coming up and I exhausted all my present-buying options over Christmas.

Four seasons of bonsai, by Kyuzo Murata is a very good book. It deals with both bonsai and accents, with emphasis on the later. The book moves gently through the seasons with excellent photography. A book I go back to again and again.

I agree with Will, that's the one I was going to recommend. You'll probably have to search around a bit to find a good copy at a reasonable price. Most of the second hand ones are ex-library or are extremely expensive. It's usually around £22 if you can find it "new".

Well, if you two say that's the one, then that's good enough for me.

I'll let you know what I turn up.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Seasons-Bonsai-Kyuzo-Murata/dp/4770014988/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264964030&sr=8-2
definately the book to have

Does anyone know how the new edition is compared to the original?
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Seasons-Bonsai-Kyuzo-Murata/dp/4770021208/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264970935&sr=8-1

I think Carlos (Kusa51) should just go ahead and write one . I would like to put my name down for the pre-order list.

How about BONSAI KUSAMONO SUISAKI A Practical Guide for Organizing Displays with Plants and Stones by Willi Benz.

Not a propagation guide, however, a masterpiece of a guide for organizing displays.

Pat…mounted on my trusted stead, riding off wildly in all directions…

There are only 12 pages in Willi Benz's volume on Kusamono and the rest is on the display of Suiseki and Bonsai, otherwise I'd have recommended it.

I found Kyuzo Murata's Four seasons of bonsai on Amazon. They've got new hardbacks for $27 and used for $3-4.

Bargain!

I bought one of the new editions for $12 on amazon and I have the old edition from the local library and they are remarkably similar. Looks like a great addition to the library.

"Kyuzo Murata's Four Seasons of Bonsai" is a wonderful book!

I just picked up this book (1st edition) for 4.00. I would have paid retail price. What an awesome book.

Thank you Bugeye, for resurecting this thread...

About a year back, I put up a very brief post about Willi Benz's book Bonsai Kusamono Suiseki...which I feel, his remarks on Kusamono alone, make it a worthwhile book.

Kev Bailey said "...There are only 12 pages in Willi Benz's volume on Kusamono..". I ask you Kev, my friend, are we looking at two different books by Willi? My copy has 46 pages on kusamono. I know that Willi's primary thrust was organizing displays. However, my copy of B-K-S has 46 pages devoted to Kusamono. Maybe that's because my ancient brain and eyes require LARGE PRINT??? :-) :-) :-)

Kev...I hope I havent opened a can of worms or a barrel of snakes...

Pat...riding of wildly, on my white horse, in all directions...