http://www.metafilter.com/tags/viewingstone Posts tagged with 'viewingstone' at MetaFilter. Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:09:52 -0800 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:09:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/62808/scholars%2Drocks Known as <a href="http://www.spirit-stones.com/">scholar's rocks</a> or <a href="http://www.zymoglyphic.org/orientalia/gongshi_coll.html">gongshi</a>, <a href="http://www.spirit-stones.com/types.asp">viewing stones</a> are rocks of complex shapes that suggest worlds within worlds, <a href="http://www.luckywonders.com/Suiseki.htm">microcosms in stone</a>. In Japan they are called Suiseki, from the Japanese characters for water "sui" and stone "seki", placed on a<a href="http://www.suiseki.com/displays/index.html"> daiza</a>, a carved<a href="http://www.felixrivera-suiseki.com/My%20Classic%20Suiseki.html"> wood base</a>. They are at once a miniature landscape and <a href="http://www.merlindailey.com/WorksArt.htm">a point</a> of imaginative departure… tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62808 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:09:52 -0800 art China daiza gongshi Japan miniature rocks scholar'srocks sculpture stone suiseki viewingstone nickyskye