U.B.I. Suiseki Award 1998
Display on a stand with staggered shelves with five stones and two accent plants.
Focal point but decentralized is the human shape stone placed at the far right, called "The Wise Old Man," which looks, thoughtful and conscious thoughts, the Nature perfected by the slow flow of time, while the far left a deciduous bonsai emphasizes the fleeting season of this ehibition, the autumn.
From below, the items placed in the stand are :
a hut stone, refuge of fishermen, now abandoned and in decay;
a turtle (animal shaped stone), symbol with its slow pace of calm and tranquility in the mental paths;
a waterfall stone: the endless flow of water affects and changes the rock;
a distant mountain, with its profiles and its volumes come to us shaped by millennial events.
"Meditations", therefore , of the Sensei, about the rhythms of nature and human time.