Iyo

Blue stone story

Breath from drum

Fresh and green color and it seems to have been varied Iyo Blue stone is It’s very beautiful.
It is used unusually as a lot of great garden also in japan.This stone arose in middie Jurassic.
Earth and saud was a lake piled up at the bottom of the sea there received the metamorphism to the depth of underground 20〜30ｋｍ including siuking of the plate under slipping temperature 200〜300 degree pressure 600〜700 atmosphere and it was formed Up heaving by big diastrophism to which the rock that can be done at the bottom of the sea is assumed to be able to do the bone union of the Japanese Islands and having some hundred million year are a blue stones of Iyo The rock is a history of the earth. If the desire is won, I cannot help feeling the breath at ancienf times in the background where a blue stones appeared by me

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  A blue stone is distributed in three wave river metamorphic belt that parallels the median tectonic Lieu in West Japan and called three wave river crystal kooky rock A lot of blue stones are classified in to “Chlorite schist” in that and seen in she south of the median tectonic line.

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  West Japan highest peak, Mt. Ishizuchi-san

Current.Saijo-shi

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  Kamo Kawakami style part
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  Kamo Kawanaka style part
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  The Kamo River river mouth part
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  Bore a hole; a fountain

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With thought

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  Yokomineji
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  Gokurakuji

Kobodaishi(kukai) is famous for nobody to know in Japan. It travels around ground in Shikoku, it turns, and various legends have been left in various places. The roud by88 places in Shikoku is travel over the ground of kobodaishi The saint is that it walks in mountains in Shikoku and the valley and Rock mountains of a blue stones felt grand energy.
The popularity of the Yokomineji temple is high in the temple where both ascetics and kukai of the post are marginate though a lot of temples exist in the home of an Iyo blue stones

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  Ishizuchi The mountaintop - tengutake
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  Maegamiji
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  A monk practicing asceticism of Gokurakuji

The home of an Iyo blue stones was ground of training. Enno gyojya acted around Nara in 7〜8 century and in the ascetic Ishizuchi trained and had opened Maegamiji temple.

88 places of temples of the Saijo-shi neighborhood

• The 60th bill place
  yokomineji
• The 61th bill place
  kouenji
• The 62th bill place
  hojyuji
• The 63th bill place
  kityouji
• The 64th bill place
  maegamiji

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Deep-blue charm

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  Kiyosumi Garden
  
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  Kiyosumi Garden The bluish rock of the garde
  
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  Yataro Iwasaki
  

Fresh and green charm. Metropolitan garden “kiyosumi Garden” in koto Ward lucid Tokyo is specified for the Tokyo specification place of scenic beauty in the wandering type woods fountain garden where an artificial hill and a great stone were arranged in surroundings on the pond. Yatarou Iwasaki is arranged after the residence at wealthy merchant Bunzaemon Kiuokuniya gate of a great stone including collected Iyo blue stones are arranged from the whole country in the purchase garden.

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  Old koga Garden　
  A blue stone is used here
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  Hokokuji temple　
  The stone construction of Muromachi Pariod is very valuable

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Temple of Syouyou Tsubouchi Aoishi grave.

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  Syouyou Tsubouchi

  
  　1859 - 1935 Born from Gifu Prefecture
  Japanese novelist, critic, translator, playwright active in Meiji era.In the masterpiece work, "Shinsei no Shiniga" "The Contemporary Praising Temperament" Translation of Shakespeare's Complete Works.
  It is said that Tombuchi Yorihiro's grave which is said to have dedicated his life to the translation of Shakespeare's complete collection is a beautiful blue stone, and is gently placed as a garden stone in Shizuoka prefecture Ito city ? Kuraji temple.

1859〜1935 Born from Gifu Prefecture
明Japanese novelist, critic, translator, playwright active in Meiji era.In the masterpiece work, "Shinsei no Shiniga" "The Contemporary Praising Temperament" Translation of Shakespeare's Complete Works.
It is said that Tombuchi Yorihiro's grave which is said to have dedicated his life to the translation of Shakespeare's complete collection is a beautiful blue stone, and is gently placed as a garden stone in Shizuoka prefecture Ito city ? Kuraji temple.

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Garden writer, Mirei Shigemori's works using Blue Stone

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• Mirei Shigemori
  　1896 - 1975
  Born from Okayama city
  A researcher in Japanese garden writer ? Japanese garden history. Mrs. Sai is from Saijo.
  The friendship with the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, etc, exchanges through the garden in a variety of ways.
  There are "favorite eternity modern" (to keep appearing modern beyond the age) and "call on the stone" (to do the stone work with the life of the stone) as favorite words.

  Image source: from Kibi-chuou-cho's WEB Site

Showa's representative garden artist, Shigemori Sanimori is a person who has a strong influence on Japanese landscaping landscape with a powerful, modern unique style. The masterpiece is Tofukuji Temple length garden in Kyoto, Komyo garden garden, Daitokuji Temple Yamanouchi garden, Matsuo Taisha garden, etc, but also in Saijo city in Ehime prefecture there are four gardens private garden, for many years It is a wonder that it is being maintained while being maintained. Aoishi is abundantly used in the garden, Dane is assembled in Mick by the sharp modeling of Aoshi and the characteristic stone structure.

Image source: from Katsuyasu Nakata's WEB Site

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  Oda's house (Mirei Shigemori's work)
  The remake of megalithes reminds me of Tofukuji. The stone beach by the bar stone surrounding the four laps is a masterpiece.

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  Garden of Okamoto's house (Mirei shigemori's work)
  Forestry Aoishi seems to be heavy forest and a free stone structure is assembled. Characteristic of Iyo 's Aoishi is well manifested in sharp stones and variegated Aoshite.

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  Garden of Ochi's house (Mirei Shigemori's work)
  イIt is famous for the visit of Isamu Noguchi.
  Copies of Katsura, Shogakuin and others are everywhere in the tea room. For example, it is in a compact tea room such as petal-stone drawing, sliding door pattern, landscape petals ? circular window ? scarlet pattern ? smooth wall (suiscke) ? poppy's blowing ? ceiling ? bamboo corridor ? sand snow storm ? gourd window etc. I have a magnificent dream.

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  Ref: Garden of Bokoku-ji (Saijyo city)
  Approximately 600 years ago, the garden was built in the Muromachi period, which is regarded as the scenic spot of the country. Mirei Shigemori was visiting this temple with Isamu Noguchi.

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The kind of the bluish rock

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Processing Example

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Quarrying origin: IYOSEKI Corporation

　The founder’s using the wagon and the triradius.quarring a blue stone of signature blue stone of Iyo used also for agreat garden in Kyoto piling up in the ship and having shipped it to Kinki and Hokuriku etc were starts in 195

It aims at the legend of the stone culture to be able to boast of the desire of the desire of the founder of wanting to offer an Iyo blue stone to more people and to offer the relief feeling of the mind to the succession world.

The desire to people’s stone has the special one from ancient times. The stone is built by using the stone thinking the word that loves the parson who loves god tobe a stone.

Person who quarries stone Person who carries Person who processes it Person who places. A lot of people help each other and it is possible both and to achieve the desire each other.

◆Corporate principles :
An eternal desire to the stone is put
and it is pleased with the stone each other.

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