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I'm Michael Tran, I was born in 1982. I started doing Bonsai in 2006. Right from the start Mr. Udo Fischer, my teacher, showed me the 'quality way' of bonsai. From here on I had the opportunity to learn from Japanese Masters like Iura, Katagiri, Esaka and Nobu as I met them.

I have participated in national as well as in international exhibitions. I believe that when the time has come every practitioner of bonsai should participate in exhibitions. Presenting beautiful bonsai to the public is a way to give something back to all the people that share your passion.

In 2009, I founded Minoru Bonsai with the idea of distributing all the knowledge and products to help the ambitious bonsai enthusiast reach a higher level of trees.

I am happy that quality bonsai is getting more and more attention and that there are a lot of great young people out there. I have high hopes for the future of Bonsai when I think of the generations of bonsai artists yet to come and that will be able to work with the masterpieces that are created today.