Sure but the practice of whatever-you'd-call-Japanese-pollarding is obviously older than daisugi since that's just pollarding with the discovery of a particular tree that's really really good at it. That discovery wouldn't have been made if people weren't already pollarding. Other extremely meticulous plant manipulation traditions like bonsai are confirmed to be over 3k years old
I'm quite confused. Japanese people practiced pollarding, and then later developed a more complex and refined variant of it known as daisugi.
That's the original comment's claim, and you seem to making that exact same claim here, but phrasing it as if you are right and the original commenter is wrong.
I believe the person I'm responding to is using "pollarding" and "coppicing" to specifically refer to the European tradition. I'm not sure what the Japanese equivalent would be called
No, I am referring to the techniques. Daisugi is a loan word used to describe a technique the same way Bonsai is. They are the English terms.
The Japanese equivalent of coppicing is coppicing because we are speaking English and we already have a word to describe the technique.
Also to correct your older post no it’s not “pollarding with the discovery of a particular tree that's really really good at it.” Daisugi uses Bonsai techniques making it labor intensive across a long period. Pollarding only takes labor when you’re actually harvesting the tree.
