suiseki

plural suisekis

1. countableuncountableA Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.

   The same love for natural form expressed in bonsai is also found in suiseki, or stone viewing, long associated with bonsai in Japanese tradition.

   1988, United States. Agricultural Research Service, The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum of the U.S. National Arboretum

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   Metamorphic rocks such as crystalline schists, gneisses, quartzite, slate, etc. are most popularly used as garden stones and suisekis, but some other kinds of stone, igneous and sedimentary in origin, are also collected,

   1967, 大貫忠三, page 51

   During this period of Japanese history, suiseki, as well as the tea ceremony, flower arrangement, bonsai, calligraphy, literature, painting, music, and architecture, attained new levels of refinement and perfection.

   1995, Arts of Asia - Volume 25, Issues 1-3, page 98

   What was for many years an eIusive dream among FiIipino bonsai artists and suiseki Iovers, has now become a reaIity: the pubIication of this book.

   2004, Bonsai & Suiseki: Trees & Stones, →ISBN