On YouTube the video description tells what the men talked about, important international relationship things; Iran, North Korea, balance of trade, honor, relationship building.
Commenters over there on YouTube deeply appreciate this display of culture. They're especially taken by the little girls and to Melania's observable reaction to watching the little girls.
And I'm all, ¿
You know, this whole thing and not one single mention of bonsai.
The emperor has the most amazing bonsai collection you've ever seen. I mean it. Trees that are hundreds of years old. Four-hundred years, five-hundred years old, and I bet some even older than that.
Trees given to the emperors by samurai families over centuries.
They drag these trees inside for special occasions such as this. Surely they moved at least one tree to inside the imperial palace just for this one thing, but no mention of it in media.
A goddamn 500 year-old tree dragged into the palace by a team of people with tremendously great care and placed just so, for a president of the United States to walk past it. Once.
Then back to the yard with all the other trees.
Amazing, incredible trees. Many are quite famous.
Let's look at 'em.
[Japan, imperial garden bonsai trees]
Imperial bonsai collection post 1960
You know, this whole thing and not one single mention of bonsai.
The emperor has the most amazing bonsai collection you've ever seen. I mean it. Trees that are hundreds of years old. Four-hundred years, five-hundred years old, and I bet some even older than that.
Trees given to the emperors by samurai families over centuries.
They drag these trees inside for special occasions such as this. Surely they moved at least one tree to inside the imperial palace just for this one thing, but no mention of it in media.
A goddamn 500 year-old tree dragged into the palace by a team of people with tremendously great care and placed just so, for a president of the United States to walk past it. Once.
Then back to the yard with all the other trees.
Amazing, incredible trees. Many are quite famous.
Let's look at 'em.
[Japan, imperial garden bonsai trees]
Imperial bonsai collection post 1960
"The years weigh heavy on [eight] imperial gardeners straining to transport a 250 year-old pine.
The bonsai, one of 350 in the Emperor's collection, will greet guests visiting the palace for a state banquet."
3 comments:
Do you suppose they ever call the Prime Minister Honest Abe?
Thank God for the feminine as a counternote to all the "important" male facts and figures.
Or even banzai.
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