An East Bay Bonsai Master Is Inspiring The Next Generation To Find Stories Inside The Trees

CBS Bay Area

May 13, 2025

For more than 50 years, a tiny movement has grown in the East Bay thanks to Dennis Makishima.

He is considered by many, a master of Aesthetic Pruning, and an influential figure in California's bonsai culture: the Japanese art of shaping and cultivating miniature trees.

"There is the essence in every tree, find it, bring it out," said Makashima. "I can make them talk to you. Part of the principle of aesthetic pruning and bonsai is, I feel you got to tell a story."

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