Bonsai base - root - Japan 1930-50 - vintage wabi-sabi - Kare San Sui

This base Japan around 1930-50 is a cut stump - It was used to lay potted bonsai - This is the spirit of Kare San Sui (literally "mountain - water - dry") - The cutting of the block could evoke cliffs. Japanese work in the spirit of wabi - sabi. It is a spiritual and aesthetic concept, derived from Zen Buddhist principles. He connects two principles: "wabi" which means solitude, simplicity, melancholy, asymmetry, nature; With "sabi" which is the alteration of time, the taste of aged things, the patina of objects. Wabi refers to modesty in the face of natural phenomena, and sabi, sensation in the face of things in which we can detect the work of time or men. A quest for imperfect perfection. Scratches, small chips, shocks of use.