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the leaves of hundreds of trees reflecting a wide band of color as if it were a rainbow hugging the ground? When viewing this stone, we see stability, majesty, and harmonizing colors that exude the serenity we often only experience when we visit these types of mountain locations. How very different from our daily life of mechanized society. Most of us can’t jettison away to a mountain retreat to experience this tranquility often enough; however, with a stone like this in our home, it is always at our disposal to be picked up, even if it is only for a fleeting moment, to embrace and enjoy that feeling of intimate solitude and tranquility.
Figure 6 would be classified as a shelter stone with a wide cave opening and a canopy top providing some shelter from the elements of nature.
Figures 7 and 8, though small, they visually express a great deal. From the rustic texture of the Furuya stone with its soaring peak, to the smooth double- peaked distant mountain stone also from Japan.
Top right; Figure 5 – Distant Mountain Stone; USA;
14 x 9 x 6 cm
Middle left; Figure 6 – Shelter Stone; Japan; 9 x 6 x 6 cm
Middle right; Figure 7 – Distant Mountain Stone; Japan;
9 x 5 x 7 cm
Bottom; Figure 8 – Distant Mountain Stone; Japan; 15 x 3 x 4 cm
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