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I believe the person I'm responding to is using "pollarding" and "coppicing" to specifically refer to the European tradition. I'm not sure what the Japanese equ

• Retric 3y ago
  No, I am referring to the techniques. Daisugi is a loan word used to describe a technique the same way Bonsai is. They are the English terms. The Japanese equivalent of coppicing is coppicing because we are speaking English and we already have a word to describe the technique. Also to correct your older post no it’s not “pollarding with the discovery of a particular tree that's really really good at it.” Daisugi uses Bonsai techniques making it labor intensive across a long period. Pollarding only takes labor when you’re actually harvesting the tree.