Comments on: Stone Carvings: Curves, Crowns, an Ouchie, and More… http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter in Wales http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37658 Peter in Wales Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:16:14 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37658 parv: I'm sure you're right that it's a holly, but not the European <i>Ilex aquifolium</i>. There are nearly 20 holly species in Japan, some evergreen, some deciduous; this may perhaps be <i>Ilex macropoda</i>, but I'm ready to be corrected ! These photographs from the Nishimura place have been fascinating, very atmospheric. It is studies like this that make Jeffrey's blog so fascinating. parv: I’m sure you’re right that it’s a holly, but not the European Ilex aquifolium. There are nearly 20 holly species in Japan, some evergreen, some deciduous; this may perhaps be Ilex macropoda, but I’m ready to be corrected !

These photographs from the Nishimura place have been fascinating, very atmospheric. It is studies like this that make Jeffrey’s blog so fascinating.

]]> By: parv http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37653 parv Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:17:53 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37653 In the last image, is that a <i>Ilex aquifolium</i> (holly tree)? In the last image, is that a Ilex aquifolium (holly tree)?

]]> By: Bryce Lee http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37644 Bryce Lee Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:26:16 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37644 My very best wishes to you and your family as the world (depending upon the time zone) celebrates the birth of the Christ child. Your blog has been for me an insight to see the happenings of a mixed nationality family in a foreign land years after the conclusion of WWII. And too the influx of those from the United States in said country; friends connected by photography. The most recent round of photography and the stone sculptures reminds us that our civilization is still so very young in terms of history, compared to the Chinese and Japanese cultures. Then as now, nature gathers on to itself all manner of being to be part of its world. The accumulation of moss covers everything, even those edges sharply exposed to the pure elements as illustrated by the broken corner. Your left hand with wedding band illustrates perhaps best the scale of the size of the curved roof section in stone. Now I see how it was carved, and because of the thickness of the material (as shown by your hand) I can see why the curved sections did not break when carved. One enters a graveyard and realizes recent monuments are often more the skill of the air or electrically powered grinding wheel or a nozzle directing a harder substance than the stone being manipulated. Then again we are young in terms of time and country. So long surviving monuments and designs are not seen as frequently. The skill of a sharpened chisel, the hammer of wood or stone or metal on the head of the device gently tapping, shaping and forming as it were the desired item. Then these shapes are allowed to repose on the side of a hill marking the passage of their time. All to be discovered by jeffrey and his friend and recorded for the posterity of the present and future. My very best wishes to you and your family as the world (depending upon the time zone) celebrates
the birth of the Christ child. Your blog has been for me an insight to see the happenings of a
mixed nationality family in a foreign land years after the conclusion of WWII. And too the influx
of those from the United States in said country; friends connected by photography.

The most recent round of photography and the stone sculptures reminds us that our civilization is still
so very young in terms of history, compared to the Chinese and Japanese cultures. Then as now,
nature gathers on to itself all manner of being to be part of its world. The accumulation of moss covers everything, even those edges sharply exposed to the pure elements as illustrated by the broken corner.

Your left hand with wedding band illustrates perhaps best the scale of the size of the curved roof section in stone. Now I see how it was carved, and because of the thickness of the material (as shown by your hand) I can see why the curved sections did not break when carved. One enters a graveyard and realizes recent
monuments are often more the skill of the air or electrically powered grinding wheel
or a nozzle directing a harder substance than the stone being manipulated. Then again we are young
in terms of time and country. So long surviving monuments and designs are not seen as frequently. The skill of a sharpened
chisel, the hammer of wood or stone or metal on the head of the device gently tapping, shaping and forming as it were the desired item. Then these shapes are allowed to repose on the side of a hill marking the passage of their time. All to be discovered by jeffrey and his friend and recorded for the posterity of the present and future.

]]> By: Winston Mitchell http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37643 Winston Mitchell Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:04:46 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-12-24/1405#comment-37643 Great series today...love the punch line. Great series today…love the punch line.

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