Masashi Hirao was born in Tokushima, Japan in 1981.
“In Japan or overseas, no matter where I go, people often ask me “What is Bonsai for you?” and I always find myself in a quandary about it. Living art? Japanese culture? It sure has both of the elements but it seems to me that it is beyond those words.
I started Bonsai just because I had a passion about it without any knowledge in the beginning. But I have been trying