Stone Garden

A stone garden — likely a karesansui (dry garden) of raked gravel and strategically placed rocks — rendered in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style. The Zen rock garden was one of Japan's most distinctive aesthetic achievements, the carefully raked gravel suggesting ocean or flowing water through abstract suggestion. Kimura's graphic treatment of this subject translated the garden's own abstract principles — the representation of nature through non-natural materials — into the related abstraction of contemporary printmaking.