Do these pears look like Tennousi? Pruning question as well

Chad, your pear has four leaders, and if left to their own devices they will conflict with each other as long as they’re there. Their branches will cross and fight for resources. Make your choice and take out three of them, as even if cut back to stubs their branch angles aren’t good. These might be good places to make dutch cuts:

It looks like many of your branches have good branch angles, but are curving up, as they all want to do. If you can tie or weight these to lower angles the tree will come into bearing sooner, and that will help tame it.

Keep in mind that @clarkinks takes a somewhat different approach to pears, and he grows a lot of them! Here’s a thread he commented in some time ago, along with a good discussion on others’ parts:

Hope this helps :-)M

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