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Enhancing the STONE
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Sakurai Toshio, Japan’s Leading Professional Stone Carver
By Thomas Elias and Hiromi Nakaoji, USA
In Part One of this two-part article,
we established that cutting and carving stones, speci cally for bonseki and suiseki, was a well-established component of stone appreciation
in Japan. These practices have been clearly documented in numerous Japanese publications. Enhanced stones have been readily accepted as suiseki and included into recognized exhibitions and numerous books. In this part, by sharing information we gathered from interviewing one of Japan’s leading and most successful suiseki carvers and manufacturers, we will show that enhancing and manufacturing stones to make suiseki has continued from the 1960s to the present.
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