suiseki

From Japanese 水石 (suiseki, literally “water stone”).

suiseki (countable and uncountable, plural suisekis)

1. A Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.
   • 1967, 大貫忠三, page 51:

     Metamorphic rocks such as crystalline schists, gneisses, quartzite, slate, etc. are most popularly used as garden stones and suisekis, but some other kinds of stone, igneous and sedimentary in origin, are also collected,

   • 1988, United States. Agricultural Research Service, The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum of the U.S. National Arboretum:

     The same love for natural form expressed in bonsai is also found in suiseki, or stone viewing, long associated with bonsai in Japanese tradition.

   • 1995, Arts of Asia - Volume 25, Issues 1-3, page 98:

     During this period of Japanese history, suiseki, as well as the tea ceremony, flower arrangement, bonsai, calligraphy, literature, painting, music, and architecture, attained new levels of refinement and perfection.

   • 2004, Bonsai & Suiseki: Trees & Stones, →ISBN:

     What was for many years an eIusive dream among FiIipino bonsai artists and suiseki Iovers, has now become a reaIity: the pubIication of this book.

• bonseki

Borrowed from Japanese 水石 (すいせき, suiseki, literally “water stone”), from Japanese 水 (すい, sui, “water”) + Japanese 石 (せき, seki, “stone”).

• IPA^(key): /sui.se.ki/
• Hyphenation: sui‧sé‧ki

suiseki (plural suiseki-suiseki, first-person possessive suisekiku, second-person possessive suisekimu, third-person possessive suisekinya)

1. A Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.