Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees
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HN comment orderJapan is just an awesome place. It's one of the only places I've visited where it's a massive culture shock - but unlike other places, where it's usually because they haven't quite got stuff together yet. They have everything just the way they want it, it's just totally different to the west. For example (if you need one aside from trees growing out of other trees) the trash collection trolleys that other countries just see as a horrible dirty thing…
Looks like a more labor intensive refinement of the much older techniques of copping and pollarding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding
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| 2021-04-26 | Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other treesFirst breakout · Best thread | known | 301 | 171 |
| 2023-10-04 | Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other TreesLatest 20+ point return | quyleanh | 246 | 102 |
| 2025-09-14 | Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees (2020) | coloneltcb | 6 | 0 |