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There are various bonsai styles and learning each style will increase your bonsai knowledge and you can get an idea of creating your bonsai your own way.

Here are well know bonsai styles and there are many more I guess. (I don't know how many styles there are exactly.)

Japanese name is in parentheses( ).

Bonsai Styles

• Upright style (chokkan)

• Literati style (bunjingi)

• Informal Upright style (moyohgi)

• Slanting style (shakan)

• Cascade style (kengai)

• Semi Cascade style (hankengai)

• Multiple Trunk style (kabudachi)

• Wind Swept style (fukinagashi)

• Twin Trunk style (sohkan)

• Rock Grown style (ishizuki)

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Upright style (chokkan)

• the most basic bonsai style
• vertically grown
• thick at the bottom and gradually gets thinner as it grows up

Trees that suit this style are:

• pine tree
• Japanese cypress
• Japanese cedar
  

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Literati style (bunjingi)

• the name is from the Literati of imperial China
• grown with a few branches and a thin trunk

Trees that suit this style are:

• red pine
• white pine
• Japanese plum tree

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Informal Upright style (moyohgi)

• with the trunk curving in many directions

Trees that suit this style are:

• white pine
• Japanese maple

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Slanting style (shakan)

• slanting to one side because of the wind or the weight of a branch

Trees that suit this style are:

• pine tree
• Japanese cedar
  

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Cascade style (kengai)

• with the trunk and branches growing down out of the pot.

Trees that suit this style are:

• juniper
• satsuki azelea

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Semi Cascade style (hankengai)

• with the trunk and branches growing down out of the pot but shorter than cascade style and growing more horizontally to the pot.
  

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Multiple Trunk style (kabudachi)

• more than 5 trunks growing from one trunk at the bottom

Trees that suit this style are:

• white pine

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Wind Swept style (fukinagashi)

• entire tree grows to one side because of being blown by the wind

Trees that suit this style are:

• black pine
• spruce

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Twin Trunk style (sohkan)

• two trunks grown at the bottom
• one of the trunks was a branch and grown as a trunk

Trees that suit this style are:

• maple
• Japanese beech

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Rock Grown style (ishizuki)

• grown on rock

Trees that suit this style are:

• black pine
• maple

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