bonseki
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thumb thumb|left|A woman making a tray landscape showing the full moon. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1899 Bonseki (, "tray rocks") is the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks.
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It sits within the topics Japanese art and Sand art.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- sandpainting
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Image
- Mt fuji bonseki.jpg
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- literal translation
- tray rocks
- Commons category
- Bonseki
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thumb thumb|left|A woman making a tray landscape showing the full moon. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1899 Bonseki (, "tray rocks") is the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks.
Small delicate tools are used in Bonseki such as feathers, small flax brooms, sifters, spoons and wood wedges. The trays are either oval or rectangular, measuring about 60 by 35 centimeters in size. Oval trays have a low rim while rectangular ones are flat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bonseki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.