Archive for the 'Nishimura Stonecarvers' CategoryViews of the workshop and gardens of Nishimura Stone Lanterns, hand-carving stone lanterns and other decorative/religious items at the same location (Kitashirakawa area of Kyoto, Japan) for five generations.
As I wrote last week, my former manager at Yahoo!, Mike Bennett, visited town. After seeing his girlfriend and her family off in Tokyo, he returned to Kyoto for a couple of days of touristy stuff with me. I took the opportunity to try out a slightly-broken Nikkor 50m f/1.2 that I'd picked up on [...]
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Paul Barr is in Kyoto again, and we made a trip to the back gardens of Nishimura Stone Lanterns, behind their stone-carving workshop, as we did last year. Even after all the posts last year (enough to merit a "Nishimura Stonecarvers" category on my blog), including a 51-photo "overview" post, there was much left to [...]
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It's been a while since we've seen anything from Nishimura Stone Lantern stone-carving shop, so here's a close up of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazardly under the legs of a large stone lantern. (The combination is visible toward the bottom of this wider view.) As I mentioned in "Deceptively Clear: Snow-Covered Mountains in Exquisite [...]
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I mentioned in "Stone Carvings: Curves, Crowns, an Ouchie, and More" how drawn I was to the curved shapes among the many items in the gardens behind the Nishimura Stone Lanterns stone-carving workshop. I recall several moss-covered basins, but I seem to have neglected to take pictures of any. I'm really drawn to them while [...]
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Among the seemingly infinite variety of objects in the gardens behind the Nishimura Stone Lanterns stone-carving workshop in the mountains of north-east Kyoto, Japan, I was particularly taken with the curved pieces. And of these, there was quite a variety, including water basins, pedestal tops, lantern-top adornments, and sloping roofs like the one in the [...]
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Well, my previous stone-related "What am I?" quiz was apparently too difficult for everyone, so here's a softy.... I found this stone lantern among the hundreds of odd-shaped and beautiful stone carvings in the gardens behind the Nishimura Stone Lanterns workshop. Those familiar with the Star Wars™ world (or with the vast array of Star [...]
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The answer to the Stone Puzzle "What am I?" Quiz is "lamp". It's made of simulated faux stone (that is, real carved stone) with a lamp and sensor inside. It's in the garden behind the Nishimura Stone-Carving Workshop in north-east Kyoto, Japan, and was visible in the "Gazebo" photo on that post.
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So, I didn't stump anyone in my previous "Fairly Dirty What am I? Quiz", and probably won't this time either, but while in the back gardens behind the Nishimura Stone Lanterns workshop, amid the bounty of photogenic beauty of 800 years worth of stone carvings, I came across the above assemblage of stone (granite, I [...]
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In "Nishimura Stone Lanterns: the Workshop" I introduced a stone-carver workshop in the Kitashirakawa area of Kyoto that I came across last week. I visited again the other day, stopping first at the workshop to request permission to visit their amazing back garden. The workshop is open to the street, and upon walking up, Paul [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, the visit to the workshop and gardens of Nishimura Stone Lanterns (a fifth-generation hand stone-carving business) and their back garden was an amazing, overwhelming, mentally draining experience. I haven't even given my photos a first-pass inspection, but soon after taking the photo above I knew it was emblematic of our time [...]
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The other day in "Nishimura Stone Lanterns: the Workshop" I introduced the workshop of a fifth-generation stone-carving shop in north-east Kyoto that Paul Barr and I "discovered" the other day. Next to and beside their shop are areas just teeming with a huge variety of stone carvings. I assume it's their "warehouse" and sales floor [...]
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Out on a photo hunt with Paul Barr yesterday, we happened upon a stonecarver's shop, less than 200 yards from the site of the mysterious cut stones I posted about a few days ago. There's a real chance that they're related, though at this point it still seems very strange. (UPDATE: I later asked, and [...]
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I was out with Paul Barr (he of the dubious camera-stabilization technique ) and came across a sight that he suggested would make a good "What am I?" Quiz, and I readily agreed. Continued here... (though, here's a direct link to the answer).
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In yesterday's "Fall Colors in Nature, as Nature Intended" I wrote about an area of (what I think is) natural-growth deciduous trees in a long ravine along the mountain road between Kyoto and Otsu. In using the phrase "as nature intended", I meant to contrast the exquisite (but planned) landscaping of large temples like Eikando. [...]
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