The art of growing tiny plants in pots that resemble big trees, dating back thousands of years. However, have you come across this technique called Daisugi? It follows quite a similar technique to that of Bonsai but the results are vastly different, reports Bored Panda. To put it in easily explainable terms, if Bonsai is Scott Lang as Ant-Man, Daisugi is GIANT Man. A twitter user by the name Wrath of Gnon explains the beautiful phenomenon through a series of tweets.

While 20 years may seem like a long time, this is actually accelerated compared to traditional Kitayama cedar. In order to keep the trees knot-free, workers climb the long trunks every three to four years and carefully prune any developing branches. After about 30 years, a single tree is finally cut down. This type of cedar, which is slightly thicker than the daisugi cedar, has several different uses.

Customarily, the smooth, tastefully satisfying bits of wood were utilized as the fundamental columns in a recess called the tokonoma. Additionally first showing up in the fifteenth century during the Muromachi time frame, these niches were utilized to show masterful things like ikebana or parchments. They additionally highlight noticeably in Kyoto's tea houses and it's said that it was Kyoto's transcendent tea ace, Sen-no-rikyu, who requested flawlessness in the Kitayama cedar during the sixteenth century.

Though the use of Kitayama cedar in these traditional alcoves is declining as Japanese architecture develops, this highly prized wood is still used for everything from chopsticks to furniture. Kitayama cedar in Japan is a tall, straight tree that is carefully cultivated so it's without knots. The cedar is particularly important in traditional architecture, where it's often used as posts in alcoves called tokonoma.