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- Author Arishige Matsuura
- Date of production 2nd half of the 20th century
- Dimensions height: stone: 5.8 cm, base: 1.2 cm, length: stone: 14.2 cm, base: 14.5 cm, width: stone: 8 cm, base: 8.1 cm
- ID no. MSITJM1304ab
- Museum The Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology
- Availability in stock
- Subjects sculpted, mountain, surprising, nature
- Technique sculpture
- Material stone, mahogany wood
- Acquired date 2013, donated by the Nippon Suiseki Association
- Object copyright The Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology
- Digital images copyright all rights reserved, The Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums Plus project
- Tags Japan , sculpture , tradition , 3D plus , WMM Plus , © all rights reserved
Are stones precious? How precious can one stone possibly be? As it turns out, one stone can be very precious indeed, particularly if you consider Japanese Suiseki art stones. To quote Matsuura Arishige, whose Kamogawaishi stone on a mahogany base is part of the collection of the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology: “The word suiseki refers to a single stone that has as its shape or surface pattern the ability to signify something far greater than the stone in and of itself. It is a tradition that has evolved to its modern form over many centuries.”
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Are stones precious? How precious can one stone possibly be? As it turns out, one stone can be very precious indeed, particularly if you consider Japanese Suiseki art stones. To quote Matsuura Arishige, whose Kamogawaishi stone on a mahogany base is part of the collection of the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology: “The word suiseki refers to a single stone that has as its shape or surface pattern the ability to signify something far greater than the stone in and of itself. It is a tradition that has evolved to its modern form over many centuries”.
The very word suiseki is an abbreviated version of a longer phrase sansui-keiseki used as a designation of nature – mountains, water and rocks. The shorter version suiseki consists of two words which, in Japanese, mean “water” [sui, 水] and “stone” [seki, 石]. Suiseki is a stone that reflects in its form and surface pattern the existing landscapes or other natural shapes. One of the most popular forms of suiseki is toyama-ishi [in Japanese – a distant mountain]; it is a stone depicting a single mountain or several mountain peaks. Other common landscape forms are waterfalls, water reservoirs, plateaus, as well as islands. In suiseki, apart from landscape motifs, one can also find other forms which depict details such as the thatch of a ruined mountain cabin or an abandoned boat by the water, as well as forms resembling animals and human figures. The last category of stones contain floral patterns or patterns of other natural elements visible on their surface. During preparation works, any human interference is kept to a minimum, and for that reason, the yoseki process is of high importance. Yoseki – literally means “raising stones” “raise a living thing”, and in this case it means “to tend to something like a living creature, in this way the stone takes on a patina or coating (sabi)”. In Japan, yoseki starts with placing a suiseki stone outside, on a wooden bench and watering the stone as if it were a plant. With the passing of time, this constant wetting and drying, as well as sun exposure creates a patina on the stone, giving it this essential “mature look”. The Yoseki process takes a lot of time as a satisfactory result cannot be achieved quickly. Sometimes it takes many years and requires constant attention, as well as a lot of patience.
There are two suiseki stones in the collection of the Manggha Museum.
Elaborated by Katarzyna Nowak (The Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology), editorial team of Małopolska’s Virtual Museums, © all rights reserved
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