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Japan - Creating a miniature Bonseki landscape

Japan - Bonseki - the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black lacquer trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks. Small delicate tools are used in Bonseki such as feathers, small flax brooms, sifters, spoons and wood wedges

Picture No
14108317
Media ID
47841104
Size
5300px x 3465px (2.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Pharcide
Source
Photograph from Japan a Pictorial Interpretation, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan
Date
1932

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