Suiseki

Suiseki (in Japanese すいせき or 水石, stone worked by water) is a Japanese art relating to the stones of particular form.

The collectors of Suiseki seeks the stones whose form or graphics evokes an animal, a human figure, a landscape or simply a beautiful abstract form.

The collectors appreciate the black, hard and smooth stones particularly. Though in California, where the art of the suiseki develops, the clear stones of the desert are also appreciated.

The stone is posed on a Daiza, a Suiban or a Doban.

The suiseki are generally presented in exposure in partnership with the Bonsaï.

History

In the tradition shintoïste, the kami can reside in any element of nature: a torrent, a beautiful tree (Bonsai) or a strange stone.

One finds traces of collections of stones at the 12th century in China. This art is named “Bonseki” (stone out of pot) and only the elites collect them to make objects of meditation of them. The first stones of collection arrived at the Japan during commercial exchanges with China between 7th and the 10th century. At the 14th century, the emperor Go-Daigo had a currently exposed remarkable stone with the museum Tokugawa of Nagoya.

External bonds

World Atlas of the stones landscapes

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