Bonkei
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A bonkei is a temporary or permanent three-dimensional depiction of a landscape in miniature, portrayed using mainly dry materials like rock, papier-mâché or cement mixtures, and sand in a shallow tra
Prints out of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes depicting Bonkei, by Utagawa Yoshishige (1848)
Color print depicting a bonkei modeled after Station 1 of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Color print of Station 1 of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Bonseki
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Bonseki is the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks.
Bonkei
…contain living trees, and saikei contain living trees and other vegetation. Its three-dimensional character and permanence distinguish bonkei from bonseki, which is a Japanese form of sand-painting that produces mostly-flat images on a display tray, usually for transient viewing before being erased for a…
A woman making a tray landscape showing the full moon. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1899
Mt fuji bonseki
Bonseki artist at work