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Enhancing

STONE
the

PART TWO

Sakurai Toshio, Japan’s

Leading Professional

Stone Carver

By Thomas Elias and Hiromi Nakaoji, USA

In Part One of this two-part article,
we established that cutting and
carving stones, specifically for bonseki
and suiseki, was a well-established
component of stone appreciation
in Japan. These practices have been
clearly documented in numerous
Japanese publications. Enhanced
stones have been readily accepted as
suiseki and included into recognized
exhibitions and numerous books. In
this part, by sharing information we
gathered from interviewing one of
Japan’s leading and most successful
suiseki carvers and manufacturers,
we will show that enhancing and
manufacturing stones to make suiseki
has continued from the 1960s to the
present.

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