Meaning of suiseki | Babel Free

Definitions

A Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.

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Examples

“Metamorphic rocks such as crystalline schists, gneisses, quartzite, slate, etc. are most popularly used as garden stones and suisekis, but some other kinds of stone, igneous and sedimentary in origin, are also collected,”

“The same love for natural form expressed in bonsai is also found in suiseki, or stone viewing, long associated with bonsai in Japanese tradition.”

“During this period of Japanese history, suiseki, as well as the tea ceremony, flower arrangement, bonsai, calligraphy, literature, painting, music, and architecture, attained new levels of refinement and perfection.”

“What was for many years an eIusive dream among FiIipino bonsai artists and suiseki Iovers, has now become a reaIity: the pubIication of this book.”

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