A Decorative Viewing Stone (Kazan Keshiki-ishi) is a rock that mimics in miniature a picturesque view of the natural objects and scenic panorama around us. As such, it sparks one's imagination and inspires creative thinking. To some collectors the Decorative Viewing Stone is all enduring, prolonging in existence and friendship or even love. It is nature's abstract art and as such the finest stone does not exactly replicate a natural vista or object but brings the scene to mind through a few ingeniousnominal shapes and forms.It is used as decoration in the tea ceremony and as an object for meditation and contemplation in the household Alcove (Tokonoma) or in other formal places of religious retreat.
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