| COLOR PLATES |
| 1. | Tokonoma arrangement | frontispiece |
| 2-4. | Japanese persimmon. Japanese millettia. English holly. | 15 |
| 5-7. | New Year's group planting. Weeping forsythia. Wild-thyme azalea. | 29 |
| 8-11. | Japanese wisteria. Nagasaki crab-apple. Common Ezo spruce. Japanese black pine. | 59 |
| 12-14. | Nagasaki crab-apple. Dwarf needle juniper. Sargent juniper. | 125 |
| 15-17. | Tray landscape. Five-needle pine. Rock planting. | 135 |
| 18-20. | Needle juniper. Japanese mountain maple. Trident maple. | 149 |
| 21-25. | Rock cotoneasler. Hornbeam. Japanese red maple. Satsuki azalea. Miniature bonsai. | 163 |
| HALFTONE PLATES |
| 1-10. | Bonsai from naturally stunted trees | 39-41 |
| 11-13. | Bonsai from seed | 42 |
| 14-17. | Bonsai from cuttings | 43 |
| 18-25. | Bonsai by grafting | 44-45 |
| 26-27. | Bonsai by layering | 46 |
| 28-47. | Potting and repotting | 55-56 |
| 48-52. | Formal upright style | 67-68 |
| 53-69. | Informal upright style | 69-75 |
| 70-78. | Slanting style | 76-78 |
| 79-83. | Semicascade style | 79-80 |
| 84-86. | Cascade style | 81 |
| 87. | Literati style | 82 |
| 88-89. | Broom style | 82 |
| 90-93. | Coiled style | 83-84 |
| 94-97. | Split-trunk style | 84-85 |
| 98-103. | Driftwood style | 86-88 |
| 104-5. | Wind-swept style | 89 |
| 106-7. | Exposed-root style | 90 |
| 108-10. | Root-over-rock style | 91 |
| 111-13. | Clinging-to-a-rock style | 92 |
| 114-16. | Twisted-trunk style | 93 |
| 117. | Octopus style | 94 |
| 118-20. | Twin-trunk style | 94-95 |
| 121-30. | Clump style | 96-98 |
| 131-34. | Stump style | 99 |
| 135-42. | Straight-line style | 100-2 |
| 143-46. | Sinuous style | 102-3 |
| 147-56. | Bonsai group plantings | 104-7 |
| 157-63. | Other group plantings | 107-10 |
| 164-65. | Miniature bonsai | 110 |
| 166-84. | Wiring and other training methods | 119-20 |
| 185-92. | Styles and uses of rocks | 141 |
| 193-204. | Making a rock planting | 142 |
| 205-13. | Making a bonsai-style group planting | 143 |
| 214-18. | Making a tray landscape | 144 |
| 219-23. | Training tables and stands | 155 |
| 224-32. | Winter protection | 156-58 |
| 233-36. | Exhibition of bonsai | 169-70 |
| 237-45. | Tools and equipment | 179-80 |
| TEXT FIGURES |
| 1-2. | Bonsai from cuttings | 26-28 |
| 3-7. | Bonsai by grafting | 32-35 |
| 8-16. | Bonsai by layering and dividing | 36-38 |
| 17-19. | Potting and repotting | 52-54 |
| 20-22. | Styles of bonsai | 63-65 |
| 23-29. | Wiring | 112-14 |
| 30-33. | Pruning | 115-16 |
| 34-36. | Correcting defects | 117-21 |
| 37-40. | Trimming | 122-23 |
| 41. | Manuring | 128 |
| 42. | Natural-group styles of group plantings | 138 |
