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A typical Pratchettian mix-up of two different things: ‘Banzai!’ is the Japanese war cry shouted by kamikaze pilots as they performed their suicide runs. It means ‘ten thousand years’, and was originally an honorary greeting used in front of the Emperor, whom the kamikazes were, of course, dying for.

‘Bonsai’ is the art of growing tiny potted trees shaped and stunted into very particular growth patterns.