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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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