It is hard to tell without a closeup of the leaf, I mean so many trees can be manipulated to trunk and branch specific ways...
The Asian water garden feel would be appropriately established, especially if I were to plant a Korean Dogwood, Cornus kousa as my focal point there.
Where did you see this tree?
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I think I found the answer. I couldn't find the original page where I saw that image first. But I remembered I could do an image search in google, from a link to the picture, which brought me to this page:
http://www.crocus.co.uk/tom-chelsea-garden/
Its from the Chelsea flower show. And it turns out these are 30 year old Hornbeams.