By Thomas S. Elias

This still life viewing stone display consist of two smooth slightly curving beach stones from Kyushi in southern Japan, two beautifully carved caps, together with a weathered driftwood. The stones were collected by Yoshida Yoichi, President of Genkai Aiseki-kai and well known stone collector and master woodcarver. Yoshida hand carves the stem and calyx cap-like features for these stones from rosewood or ironwood. He specializes in creating eggplant-like food stones. Food stone are typically associated with the Gobi Desert region of China, but there are not exclusive to that country.

These two stones are 13 cm long and 7 cm at its widest part, and 11.5 cm long and 4 cm at its widest part. They are in the collection of Thomas S. Elias and Hiromi Nakaoji.