found: Work cat: Kagawa, Takaaki (Botanist). Kokedama, 2015:page 3 (in Japan, a style of casual bonsai called kokedama; these bonsai stand without pots and have herbs, grasses, or small shrubs, including common house plants; a popular, lower-maintenance style of bonsai; the prototype of kokedama is the form of bonsai called ne-arai, translated into 'washed roots') page 5 (kokedama can be translated into 'moss ball'; classified as easier, quicker version of ne-arai; a planted ball of soil covered with live moss; according to some sources, Isao Umiji, a horticulturist, invented kokedama in the late 1990s)
