Modern Suiseki

About Abstractive stone

Abstractive stone is one of categories of Suiseki.

In Suiseki, Abstractive stone is rounded.

In the case of mountain shape stone, if the stone looks like a miniature of distant mountain, it is Toyama-ishi.

If it is rounded and looks like kind of mountain but needs some imagination, it is Abstractive stone of mountain.

The following photos are Abstractive stone of mountain:

Shonai-gawa stone

Omusubi shape

By the way, Japanese people of ancient times divinized mountains and ate mountain-shaped rice (the shape of the god) to receive divine power, and this is the beginning of ”omusubi”.