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he 3rd Japan Suiseki Exhibition of the
Nippon Suiseki Association (NSA)
was held on the second floor of Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum from February
T9 to 13, 2016. This museum is located at
Ueno park where other museums are located. The
National Museum, a science museum, galleries,
temples and shrines with a five-storey Pagoda, a
peony garden and a zoo can be found within its area,
including a lake where you can hire a pedal or row
boat. The zoo is very popular for its pandas and other
exotic animals.
The opening of the Suiseki exhibition with speeches
in Japanese took place in the morning of February 9.
As in the previous years all exhibits were
documented by a beautiful catalogue which was
produced in advance. So it was possible to purchase
a copy of it at the spot. The exhibits were divided into Top; Main room: tokonoma
four sections: 5 special entries, 25 tokonoma displays, displays along the walls and
102 general entries (with a subcategory of entries two rows in the middle
from abroad) and 10 Suiseki accessories (display Middle; two elegant tokonoma
stands/tables, suiban and tenpai). A flyer with the displays with two most
name of the exhibitors and the origin of the Suiseki outstanding Suiseki, a Yase
was given to visitors at the entrance. The exhibits had sudachi maguro ishi (49 cm w
x 20.5 cm d x 23 cm h) at the
to be subjected to a pre-selection and had to be sent right and a Matsumae kotan
in advance so it was possible to take photographs ishi (84cm w x 41 cm d x 19
for the catalogue and to produce it. Instructions of cm h)
the author and editor-in-chief Mr. Morimae inform Bottom; The first room
the readers that “the tokonoma display and general was dedicates to Suiseki
entry sections are ordered according to Japanese accessories (display stands,
suiban), special entries of
syllabary, though this order has been altered slightly Hosokawa School Bonseki
in places for the sake of improving the layout.” The (sand paintings) and small
catalogue was edited in only two months including the Suiseki displayed in wood
translation into English by Mr. Peter Warren and Mr. framed glass boxes.
Wil Lautenschlager. The size of the Suiseki and some The exhibition was set up by Mr. Seiji Morimae,
additional information/comments to each exhibit are Vice president of NSA and his assistants in several
given in English. rooms which were connected to each other by open
Entries from abroad came mostly from the United passages (without doors) so it was possible to walk
States, six exhibitors were from Europe (Denmark, unimpeded from one into the other. The first room
Germany, Italy and Switzerland) and the others from was dedicated to Suiseki accessories (display stands,
China, Malaysia and the Philippines. suiban), special entries and small Suiseki displayed

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