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	Suikinkutsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditionally suikinkutsu are always found near a hand wash basin chozubachi used for the Japanese tea ceremony, and the suikinkutsu is buried between the basin and the stepping stone next to the basin.
		Their rise in popularity and the name suikinkutsu originated fro the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), around the same time the stone basin chozubachi was developed.
		Some suikinkutsu do provide a bamboo tube nearby, which can amplify the sounds if one end is put on the ground near the top of the suikinkutsu and the other end is placed on the ear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suikinkutsu (1221 words)

	Suikinkutsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Traditionally suikinkutsu are always found near a hand basin chozubachi used for the Japanese tea ceremony the suikinkutsu is buried between the basin and stepping stone next to the basin.
		Their rise popularity and the name suikinkutsu originated fro the middle of the Edo period (1603 - 1867) around the same time the stone chozubachi was developed.
		At the beginning of the 20th century the early Showa period both the name suikinkutsu and the device were all but and a report of Professor Katsuzo Hirayama the Tokyo University of Agriculture from 1959 could find only two suikinkutsu in Japan both of them inoperable filled with earth.
	www.freeglossary.com /Suikinkutsu (1079 words)

	Suikinkutsu: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A suikinkutsu (Japanese (Japanese: A native or inhabitant of Japan) : 水琴窟;, literally: water koto (koto: Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding box and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers) cave) is a type of Japanese garden ornament and music device.
		Constructing a suikinkutsu is more difficult than it looks, because all components have to be finely tuned with each other to ensure a good sound (sound: The sudden occurrence of an audible event).
		Their rise in popularity and the name suikinkutsu originated fro the middle of the Edo period (Edo period: the edo period (, edo-jidai) is a division of japanese...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/suikinkutsu (1344 words)

	Encyclopedia: Suikinkutsu
		In her thesis, she investigates the Japanese sound installation, "suikinkutsu" found in Japanese-style gardens from the end of the Edo period (1603-1867) to the early Showa period.
		While looking at some of the garden plants and stones, and while listening to the voices of the birds and the whispering of the wind in the trees, the suikinkutsu contributed its quiet sound a few moments later.
		However, suikinkutsu is totally different from the other classical arts (e.g., the Japanese tea ceremony and the art of flower arrangement) in that it is just one aspect of Japanese daily life, closely related to the human sensory organs and physical movements or daily actions like washing hands and gargling.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Suikinkutsu (1949 words)

	SUIKINKUTU ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Suikinkutsu (Water Koto) is a unique Japanese idea built into the Japanese garden to create a mysterious but beautiful and clear sound of dripping water.
		A large earthen jar with a hole in the bottom is buried upside down in the ground and the water from the water trough or wash basin is made to flow into the buried jar.
		The Suikinkutsu is believed to have been made in various parts of Japan from around the end of the 19the century to the beginning of the 20the century.
	www.mb.ccnw.ne.jp /suikinkutsu/engl.html (286 words)

	Suikinkutsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A suikinkutsu (Japanese: 水琴窟;, literally: water koto cave) is a type of Japanese garden ornament and music device.
		Recently, metal suikinkutsu have also become commercially available.
		Historically, suikinkutsu were known as tosuimon (Japanese: 洞水門;), but they were rarely used in Japanese gardens.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Suikinkutsu (1207 words)

	SUIKINKUTSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Suikinkutsu can also be built with a continuous stream of water for a continuous suitekion sound instead of the ryusuion and suitekion alteration.
		Historically, suikinkutsu were known as tosuimon, but they were rarely used in Japanese gardens.
		Their rise in popularity and the name suikinkutsu originated fro the middle of the Edo period, around the same time the stone basin chozubachi was developed.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/su/Suikinkutsu.htm (1173 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Suikinkutsu is a traditional but little known sound device, popular in Japan several hundred years ago.
		The suikinkutsu is a device invented some 400 years ago by a Japanese tea master.
		When an earthernware jar is buried upside down, with a small hole at the top, sounds are created when drops of water fall through the hole onto the surface of the water in the jar.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/eastasia/print/121862/1/.html (254 words)

	Kelake \| The Japanese Sound Culture
		It seems the ancient Japanese people considered various sounds as the total 'scenery,' and being more imaginative than us, there was no border between sound and music in the ancient Japanese sound culture.
		The Japanese people regarded sound as an abstract image rather than as a pragmatic acoustic event, like the sound of the bloom of a lotus flower and suikinkutsu, for instance.
		The concept of sound was extended from the real sound of an instrument to sounds of a variety of phenomena in the ancient Japanese culture."
	www.kelake.org /archive/music_and_sound/the_japanese_sound_c.html (177 words)

	Ceramics Today - The Pottery Path of Tokoname
		Junpei Sugie built this, who is a potter as well as a professor at a college of art.
		This is a "Suikinkutsu", an echo chamber, near the bower.
		"Suikinkutsu" was invented as a technology of Japanese gardening in the period from the 1810s to the 1830s.
	www.ceramicstoday.com /articles/tokoname1.htm (1284 words)

	Japanese Sound Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Sui" is equivalent to "water," "kin" is the Japanese zither and "kutsu" means "cave." The sound of the suikinkutsu was made by the stream of a drain coming from a stone basin or a wash basin.
		In the case of the suikinkutsu, the gardener made a drain using an overturned water pot or barrel.
		This delay, caused by the structure of the suikinkutsu had the effect of directing people's listening to other environmental sounds in the garden.
	interact.uoregon.edu /MediaLit/wfae/readings/jpsoundculture.html (985 words)

	Talk:Suikinkutsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suikinkutsu has been listed as a good article; it adheres to certain quality standards, and may become a featured article.
		Featured on the Main Page with Picture on April 11th 2004 in the section "Did you know...
		": "...that a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?"
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Suikinkutsu (88 words)

	Japanese Harp Garden Factsheet - Gardening Australia - ABC
		The Suikinkutsu originated in Japan about 200 years ago when a gardener noticed a mysterious sound coming from a small drainage cave created by a washbasin.
		A void is created in the ground by a large ceramic pot about 80 cm wide and 1 m deep, turned upside down on a saucer.
		Having a Suikinkutsu is a calm, contemplative addition to a garden.
	www.abc.net.au /gardening/stories/s654707.htm (681 words)

	Japanese Landscaping
		Over the past 20 years, we have developed efficient interior and exterior biological treatment systems, using a combination of traditional techniques and latest materials developed to assist in the filtration of wastes, guaranteeing healthy, balanced water environments suitable for Koi Carp.
		As time went by however, the technique received less and less attention and today in modern Japan it is only a name that is reminiscent of Imperial gardens long ago.
		Suikinkutsu refers to a relatively small cave or hollow set underneath the ground near a washbasin in the garden.
	www.japaneselandscaping.com.au /page_gardens.htm (584 words)

	Japanese Garden Decor
		The special arrangement of the tsukubai suggests that you are entering a sacred portion of the garden - perhaps the outer garden of the teahouse - or approaching a shrine.
		One way to tell that this is a suikinkutsu is the absence of a visible drain to remove the excess water.
		The main way to tell that this is a Suikinkutsu or water harp, however, is by the sound.
	www.a-japanese-garden.com /japanese-garden-decor.php (773 words)

	6429-6443 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sound of the suikinkutsu consists of an original sound generated by water drops striking the surface of the water in the suikinkutsu and a reverberant sound generated by the original sound.
		The body of the suikinkutsu also has its own natural frequencies and vibrates in synchronism with the natural frequencies of the oscillation modes of air inside it, affecting the tonal quality of the sound emitted from the suikinkutsu.
		We propose an experimental formula representing the natural frequencies of the suikinkutsu and examine the validity of this formula.
	jjap.ipap.jp /link?JJAP/43/6429 (244 words)

	Recording: At Times of Quiet
		This selection is from 'Scenes with Suikinkutsu,' a composition for suikinkutsu (water chime) and 'Ondes Martenot' first performed in 1997 at Tokyo's Suntory Hall.
		It is the composers wish that the faint sound of the water drops tailing and resonating would bring a sense at the inner universe within us all.
		It is up to the individual, however, to listen as the suikinkutsu marks the passing at time, and interpret the quiet.
	www.komuso.com /albums/At_Times_of_Quiet.html (524 words)

	Suikinkutsu - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 00:20, 28 August 2005.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Suikinkutsu contains research on
		Suikinkutsu, Traditional Construction, Modern Variations, History, Acoustics, Philosophy, Miscellaneous, References and Japanese music.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Suikinkutsu (1231 words)

	Blue Tier in Tasmania, Australia gets suikinkutsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mr Kubo 'Nobu' Yoshinobu, master suikinkutsu builder, flew down from Kyoto, Japan to install a water harp on ECHO land on the Blue Tier.
		'Suikinkutsu' was an almost forgotten Japanese art form of sinking an inverted earthernware pot into the ground and having drops of water fall onto a permanent layer of water at the base, creating a pleasant musical effect.
		Lila Meleisea and Lorraine Biggs were supported by Tasmanian Regional Arts with a SOAR Fund for the Kodama Project for their sound and visual collaboration to accompany the Suikinkutsu.
	www.bluetier.org /harp (297 words)

	JGarden - Features and Announcements
		The suikinkutsu is usually built in conjunction with a chozubachi or tsukubai water basin arrangement.
		The suikinkutsu has enjoyed a second revival in recent years, often being constructed without the stone basin above, simply to be enjoyed for echoing sound of dripping water.
		Yoshikawa points out, however, that these are not really suikinkutsu in a strict sense as suikinkutsu are always auxiliary to tsukubai.
	www.jgarden.org /features.asp?ID=15 (248 words)

	culture
		At Iwasaki Castle Ruins Park, the main and secondary enclosures are surrounded by a dry moat, and there is a Japanese garden in the secondary enclosure.
		A suikinkutsu is a device seen in Japanese gardens.
		It is said that the suikinkutsu was developed during the middle of the Edo Period.
	www.city.nisshin.aichi.jp /frames/nissin/gide.htm (661 words)

	Water in Day-to-day Scenes
		The sounds of water are comforting, and Japanese people, who have learned over the centuries to find consolation in the sounds of water, have invented a variety of ways to enjoy these sounds.
		Suikinkutsu, for example, are often seen in traditional Japanese-style gardens.
		Using drops of water, these interesting devices produce sounds that resemble those of the koto, or Japanese harp.
	www.kansai.gr.jp /culture_e/water/scenes/scenes.htm (551 words)

	Interviews
		Instead, in each of its chambers there is a devise called a suikinkutsu, a kind of water bell.
		Inside, the walls of the kiln are covered with vitrified hanging blobs of glaze, the result of many years firing, creating the rather strange impression of being inside a piece of pottery.
		With a background of the crystal clear sounds of the suikinkutsu, we stand talking about Otani ware to the present head of the kiln and owner, Yukio Mori.
	www.kougei.or.jp /english/crafts/0429/d0429-5.html (1341 words)

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		Secondly, in describing a sound installation in a garden, Imada (1994) draws attention to the delay between water being introduced to the 'suikinkutsu' and its effect being heard.
		He says that not only did people 'appreciate the sound of the suikinkutsu itself, but also the time spent creating the sound.' the delay 'had the effect of directing [their] listening to other environmental sounds in the garden' (Imada, 1994, p.
		We are reminded that sound is not only an event, it is always an event understood within specific cultural discourses which define the meaning of an particular sound as 'the sound' for x, y, or z.
	www.kent.ac.uk /sdfva/sound-journal/forrester.txt (7234 words)

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		Even later when we don't feel anymore floating of emotions and we have some perceptions, we must be careful because those perceptions are not the truth.
		The Suikinkutsu was a Japanese use very ancient that had been lost, but that now it
		On the1st March has been inaugurated a similar Fontana in the chiostro of the Basilica of S. Francisco in Assisi in order to carry this sound of peace in thecity that is the symbol of the Peace in the world.
	www.gorinkai.it /zenengl.htm (2667 words)

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		These were resonant jars, buried in the earth under wash-basins outside tea houses during the Edo period (1603-1867).
		In the interval they would hear the other sounds that were present.
		The suikinkutsu is a beautiful example of designing for the ear and I want the students in this course to begin to think of ways to initiate soundscape designs into their own lives.
	www.arch.ksu.edu /seamon/Schafer_Argent.htm (1412 words)

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