Suiseki exhibition at Tokio, Sep-2010

Hi all,

These photos were taken by my friend Carlos Lazaro in a suiseki exhibition at Tokyo, in some rooms of the Nippon Bonsai Association, in September 2010:

See suiseki photos

My friend was a big luck because he visited this exhibition with the bonsai master Mr. Kobayashi.

I hope you enjoy them.

Jose Manuel.

Jose Manuel,

The link only gives access to the Facebook log on page any chance of posting pics here on the IBC ?

Hi Dave,

I apologize for that. I tried to post the pictures directly to IBC but I had problems.

I'll try to solve this posting the pictures in any free photo-web service. I do not know I cannot use the image upload option of IBC forum, maybe it is my navigator.

Best reagrds and many thanks for you warning.

Jose Manuel.

Hi Dave,

I think this link at Google should work with no log:

See suiseki photos

Best regards,
Jose Manuel.

Jose Manuel

Thanks for that its perfect!
Regards

Hi friends ,
http://picasaweb.google.es/SuisekiBonsai/SuisekiExhibitionAtTokioSep2010#5521666566987167362

Hi ngoquangvu06,

Is this suiseki yours?

Best regards,
Jose Manuel.

Hi friends ,
I am only point-duty for linking better because your images too small - 3-5 KB.

Dear all,

Finally I was able to use the image upload option with my browser, so here they are the photos:

This is my friend Carlos Lazaro with the bonsai master Mr. Kobayasi.

That's all, I hope you enjoy with these photos.

Best regards,
Jose Manuel.

Outstanding stones!

Many thanks for sharing these pictures...

Hi Jose Manuel... Thanks for sharing Carlos Lazaro's photos of a Tokyo suiseki exhibition and vending area on IBC. I wish we could get more details of whose stones are exhibited and the sponsor(s). The exhibit occurred in Tokyo on September 3-5, 2010. The Nippon Suiseki Sogoten exhibition sponsored by Nippon Suiseki Association recently ended in Tokyo (scheduled September 24-26, 2010).

Thanks to IBC Stone Forum members helping others view the stones. I was on a river, yesterday, and am delighted to see a Japanese exhibit. It appears that the famed daiza carver Suzuki-san is sitting next to his vending table in one photo. Mr. Kunio Kobayashi looks as dashing as ever-- I value his teaching. Mr. Kobayashi is well-known as a very active director in Nippon Suiseki Association, as well as vending stones, owning stones & maintaining stones for clients. In his own bonsai museum/studio Shunkya-en in greater Tokyo, Mr. Kobayashi has constructed an extraordinary facility for displaying bonsai or suiseki of limited number in a variety of alcoves.

Some of the exhibits, here, are well-staged. Others appear to not carry on the old yet vital customs of suiseki well. Suiseki is not an unchanging, formalized tradition but a living form of expression that connects to the past while engaging viewers in the present.

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately I have no more information than the pictures of my friend Carlos.

I agree with you that some suiseki are exposed in a way that we expect to see in a traditional exhibition in Japan and other suiseki are exposed in a more modern and "less common" way, and I think this is precisely what is interesting and it shows, as you say, that is a living art in which there is room for evolution.

Surely some of the compositions in this exhibition have been widely criticized by misunderstood in my country.

It is a pleasure to share this art with the friends of the IBC.

Regards,
JMB