The Beautiful, Brutal World of Bonsai
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An American undergoes a gruelling apprenticeship to a Japanese master. In the winter of 2002, a young American named Ryan Neil joined an unusual pilgrimage: he and several others flew to Tokyo, to begin a tour of Japan's finest collections of bonsai trees. He was nineteen, with an athlete's body and a sunny, symmetrical face.
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