Earth and Space News: Bonsai Gardening on Hawaii Five-0 2010 Episode Aohe Mea Make I Ka Hewa

Summary: Bonsai gardening hides Japanese organized crime's private bank in Hawaii Five-0 2010 episode Aohe Mea Make I Ka Hewa; Make No I Ka Mihi Ole April 6, 2018.

Goshin (Japanese: 護神, "protector of the spirit"), a forest planting of 11 Foemina juniper trees (Juniperus chinensis 'Foemina'), representing 11 grandchildren, by American botanist and master bonsai cultivator John Yoshio Naka (Aug. 16, 1914-May 19, 2004); United States National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, National Arboretum, Washington DC; Monday, April 30, 2012, 15:39: Sage Ross, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

The Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural television series episode No One Has Ever Died for the Mistakes He Has Made; Only Because He Didn't Repent April 6, 2018, applauds bonsai gardening.

Director Jennifer Lynch bolsters the eighth season's 19th episode with the 'ōlelo a'o ("advice") Aohe mea make i ka hewa; make no i ka mihi ole. Writers Liz Alpert, Ashley Dizon, Rob Hanning, Alex Kurtzman, Peter Lenkov, Roberto Orci, Sean O'Reilly, Zoe Robyn and Ally Seibert correlate organized crime and private banking. The series' 187th episode overall diverts Hiro Noshimuri's (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) $20 million, from Michelle Shioma's (Michelle Krusiec) underground deposits, to Adam Noshimuri's (Ian Anthony Dale) account.

Adam and confidential informant Jessie Nomura (Christine Ko) enter the storefront enterprise where Mr. Kimura (Dana Lee) ensures bonsai gardening and Japanese organized crime money safety.

Bonsai gardening symbolically functions here for Yakuza (from Japanese ヤクザ, "8-9-3 [worst possible Oicho-Kabu card game hand]") funds fitting within one Honolulu storefront vault.

Bonsai gardening gets 1.97-inch- to 2.95-foot- (5- to 90-centimeter-) high cone-bearing or flower-bearing, leaf-bearing or needle-bearing shrubs and trees into clay-fired containers or onto rock slabs. It has an 1,800-plus-year history as the arboricultural invention of ancient Chinese horticulturists who honed heat, light, moisture, nutrient and pruning schedules to hinder overall growth. It involves interventions in woody plants as shrub and tree cuttings, seedlings or seeds to influence root and shoot diameters and lengths throughout their life cycles.

Aesthetic houseplants as year-round living indoor art with minimum resource and spatial inputs journeyed from ancient China eastward as a cultural appropriation to the Japanese archipelago.

Perhaps Buddhist priestly ceremonies, from the Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.) onward, with potted plants during religious rituals kindled penjing (from Mandarin Chinese 盆景, "potted tree").

The alternate synonym, penzai (from Chinese 盆栽), launched the later culturally appropriated term bonsai (from Japanese 盆栽, "tray planting") during the Heian period (794-1185). Perhaps incense-burning boshanlu (from Chinese 博山爐, "universal mountain censor") with sacred Mount Penglai-shaped lids from the Han dynasty (202 B.C.-9 A.D.) mobilized penzai gardening. Rising incense smoke navigated through perforated lids to nestle into miniaturized cloudy, foggy, misty swirls like those around mountainous Penglai Immortal Island (蓬萊仙島).

Perhaps the symbolic miniature occasioned penjing and penzai gardening's organization into bonsai gardening through insular, mountainous Hōrai (蓬莱), cultural equivalent of sacred white Mount Penglai.

The Penglai-shaped lid's water-filled, nicknamed pen dish poised falling embers in miniaturized, sacred, symbolic waterscapes of the white mountain's Bohai Sea gulf in the Yellow Sea.

Perhaps mystical recreations from Lao-Tze (601-531? B.C.) Daoist (from Chinese 道, Dáo, "the Way") philosophy queued up penjing and penzai gardening precursors to bonsai gardening. Daoist mystics realized miniature air-, land- and water-scapes recreated symbolically from full-size magical sites that thereby received inward radiation, and resulting reinforcement, of all their properties. Daoist legends suggest mystically miniaturizing real landscapes even though graphic witness only surfaces centuries later with Crown Prince Zhanghuai's (Jan. 29, 655-March 13, 684) tomb mural.

Penjing and penzai gardening turned treasured soil, trees and water over to bonsai gardening, whose tendencies toward Chinese juniper shrubs Kimura-san took into storefront private banking.

(left) Yakuza banker and bonsai gardener Mr. Kimura (Dana Lee) with (right) Adam Noshimuri (Ian Anthony Dale), ex-Yakuza and now head of Hawaii Five-0 Task Force's Special Division of Organized Crime, and Adam Noshimuri's confidential informant (center), Jessie Nomura (Christine Ko), in CBS-TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 8, episode 19, Aohe Mea Make I Ka Hewa; Make No I Ka Mihi Ole: Dana Lee @actordanalee, via Twitter April 6, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

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