This is  a cutting  grown Itoigawa Shimpaku that I purchased from Dave Kreutz at the WBC convention in DC in 2005. This tre was originally imported as a field grown trunk by Joe Harris and Matsunami-en Bonsai at Isely's Nursery in Boring oregon. When Kreutz had it, Marco Invernizzi worked to establish the life lines and the deadwood. In 2006 Marco again worked o the dead wood and pruned it to stimulate back budding. In 2008 Mike Hagedorn did an initial stylng and branch selection. It got a bit weak, so I dewired and let it grow. I went through and did a base pruning and again cleaned out and define the live veins (three on the front). My goal is to wire next weekend, lime sulphur and spruce up.

Before work, after work (pruning and deadwood) and trunk close up.

Looks like a great trunk. I agree with Adair it must be nice to have a tree with a story.

Nice tree.  Great potential.
I had several of those trees from Dave Kreutz.  I think he imported them for a workshop that never came to fruition.  Good material.

What's the best way to get junipers to produce back budding?

What's the best way to get junipers to produce back budding?
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Good question, I was looking at a juniper I have that was neglected for a long time. It does not have much on the interior branches and I do not know what to do with it. I put it in a large plastic pot this spring to get it back healthy. I fertilized it and it did throw some back buds on the last four inches of the branches but nothing in close. 
Maybe cutting it back real hard would get more back budding.
I see bunjin style junipers and pines and I wonder if that's why they made a bunjin out of it.

  I need some suggestion on future styling of this tree.