Tree Fort!: Amazing Castle Sculpted Around Bonsai

This is a castle sculptured around an actual bonsai tree by Japanese artist Takanori Aiba. If a shrink-ray existed, I would shrink myself and live there. Unfortunately shrink-rays don't exist, so I'm stuck in this basement apartment with a serial killer living above me. Don't ask how I know, but blood does drip through the ceiling sometimes.

Hit the jump for another bonsai tree fort by the same artist.

Artist's Website (worthwhile -- with a bunch more miniature sculptures but with less trees)
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Mini Tree Castle of the Day [thedailywh.at]

Thanks to Austin -- the man, the myth, the Texas capital.

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