Chamaecyparis obtusa / Hinoki cypress "Sekka Miyabi"

[AJL]

A month ago I posted this topic with a Youtube video of a rare Japanese Cypress.

It should be a cultivar of Sekka Hinoki but it is different from the 'standard" Sekka Hinoki like we know.

On my search for more info about Sekka Hinoki and the possible different cultivars I probably found the cultivar mentioned in the Youtube video.

On the website fromjapan-kt.com I found a Chamaecyparis obtusa / Hinoki cypress "Sekka Miyabi".

Has anybody ever seen this cultivar of Sekka Hinoki?

Are you sure this isnt a Cryptomeria? it appears to have needles

 

[SeanS]

Jonas has started working with sekka

Repotting nursery stock - sekka hinoki - Bonsai Tonight

One species that I'm excited to work with over the next few years is sekka hinoki, Chamaecyparis obtusa 'sekka'.

bonsaitonight.com

Forward to 1h20m

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Stumbling around today I found some goodies...
View attachment 389633
I might even get stupider. I'm kinda thinking of making a miniature forest made with a few more T.o. P Expensive, but then it's late in my career and this may be my only possibility for one. The BB will be a loner shohin.

That Thuja cultivar has a nice potential for shohin and mame bonsai

 

[ShimpakuBonsai]

Yesterday I watched a video (Kimi's bonsai) and the Sekka Hinoki Miyabi cultivar was shown and mentioned in the video.
Watch the video from 3.11 and at 3.18 you see a close up of the Miyabi cultivar.

 

[eeeealmo]

linking another video from sekka master Asao Koide showing some Miyabi cuttings that are rooted. not super useful, but more evidence and images of its foliage.

p.s. anyone have any information what might have happened to him? he was uploading videos quite regularly until last year and then suddenly nothing.

 

[BonsaiEire]

linking another video from sekka master Asao Koide showing some Miyabi cuttings that are rooted. not super useful, but more evidence and images of its foliage.

p.s. anyone have any information what might have happened to him? he was uploading videos quite regularly until last year and then suddenly nothing.

He is still posting on twitter

https://x.com/Koide_Bonsai

He is not a young man so I'd imagine just maintaining the bonsai is enough work without making videos also.

 

[eeeealmo]

He is still posting on twitter

https://x.com/Koide_Bonsai

He is not a young man so I'd imagine just maintaining the bonsai is enough work without making videos also.

that's a relief. i had checked his twitter, but given how stupid twitter is now, the posts weren't in chronological order so i thought it had gone silent too.