Japanese Suiseki

Drawing on his fascination with Suiseki, the ancient Japanese art of stone appreciation, Michael Anistassiades envisaged a trio of volcanoes and the natural choice was Basaltina, not...

Drawing on his fascination with Suiseki, the ancient Japanese art of stone appreciation, Michael Anistassiades envisaged a trio of volcanoes and the natural choice was Basaltina, not...

Drawing on his fascination with Suiseki, the ancient Japanese art of stone appreciation, Michael Anistassiades envisaged a trio of volcanoes and the natural choice was Basaltina, not...

This is a stone mined in Japan. Not only in China but also in Japan from ancient times, rocks in the mountains have been shaved and stones for viewing have been quarried.

Pagoda Red Collection #: P184 Keywords: Rock, Scholars stone, Chinese, Japanese, Suiseki, sculpture, statue

A Japanese Suiseki scholar or viewing stone - a monumental and extraordinary natural chrysanthemum kiku scholar rock "Starry Nights", 22 Inches tall.

Suiseki in Japanese, Scholer's Rock in Chinese and Suseok in Korean.

Better known in its Japanese equivalent, Suiseki, stones like these are revered for their beauty, what we would call (in the west) ready made art.

Pagoda Red Collection #: ZZZ101P Keywords: Scholars' stone, meditation, lingbi, suiseki stone, Japan, China, sculpture, statue

This is a Japanese suiseki viewing stone known as "Seigaku-ishi," quarried from the Ashikubo River in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture — one of the celebrated stone types within Ja...

This is a stone mined in Japan. Not only in China but also in Japan from ancient times, rocks in the mountains have been shaved and stones for viewing have been quarried.

Suiseki is a Japanese culture and hobby of appreciating stones indoors.

"Furuya Stone" is a popular stone in Japan. This is a scenery that reminds us of a steep mountain even among "Suiseki".

This is a stone mined in Japan. Not only in China but also in Japan from ancient times, rocks in the mountains have been shaved and stones for viewing have been quarried.

This is a stone mined in Japan. Not only in China but also in Japan from ancient times, rocks in the mountains have been shaved and stones for viewing have been quarried. It is a ve...

‘Kamuy kotan seki’ (Kamuy kotan stone) from the canyon called ‘Kamuy-kotan’ (‘Whereabouts of God’ in the Ainu language) in the western part of Asahikawa city in Hokkaido, Japan. Qui...

Suiseki (literally "water stone") is a traditional Japanese art of appreciating naturally formed stones exactly as nature made them, without any human alteration.

This is a large Furuya-ishi suiseki stone, a type of stone that has long been appreciated in Japan.

This is a Japanese suiseki (viewing stone), mined in Japan.

This is a Japanese "Suiseki" (viewing stone). Suiseki is a culture that has continued in Japan since ancient times, in which a stone created by nature is appreciated as a landscape i...

Chinese scholar's rocks influenced the development of Korean suseok and Japanese suiseki.

This viewing stone (suiseki) is believed to be either Furuya-ishi or Seigaku-seki.

This is a stone mined in Japan. Not only in China but also in Japan from ancient times, rocks in the mountains have been shaved and stones for viewing have been quarried.

Such stones for appreciation are collectively called "suiseki". Suiseki means "water" and "stone". The name comes from the fact that I enjoyed pouring water on the stones and changin...