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.
A woman making a tray landscape showing the full moon. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1899
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Bonseki artist at work
Sandpainting
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Sandpainting or drypainting is the art of pouring colored sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or
Bonseki
…states: "The importance of Bonseki is the peaceful feeling and satisfaction you derive from creating a Bonseki scene and not the result of the work." Sandpainting Rhymeprose on a Miniature Landscape Garden…
Rangoli, a popular form of Indian sandpainting in Singapore.
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Navajo sandpainting, photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, 1907, Library of Congress
Navajo sandpainting, photo by H.S. Poley, published c. 1890–1908, Library of Congress