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Top left: Summit of Mount Pu’
and its panorama.
Top right: Detail of Lóngmén
Bottom: The Kazari display
featuring Lóngmén in a bronze
incence burner, a scroll with
the moon over pine trees, and
three bronze carp tempai.
Lóngmén 龍門 (Dragon’s Gate)
Text and Photos by Diego Andreani, exhibitor
and winner of the BCI Excellence Award, XIV
Bonsai and Suiseki Exhibition, Catanzaro, Italy.
This stone was found in the 1990s on Mount Pu’
in Liguria, above Sestri Levante. It was collected
by my late friend Angelo Attina during a tanseki
(stone-collecting excursion).
To me, this stone evokes the concept of Go Shintai—a
dwelling place for the Kami (spirits).
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