Flint knapping

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Sorry if I can't get off these Japanese granite carvers. What a
vibrant culture.  I wonder if it hasn't been a continuous taditional
activity for many generations among certain families.

Here is a list I got that was from a site I already mentioned.  I
don't know if anybody looked.  This might be a little easier.  I'll
start off with Sugawara who I listed earlier just because of his huge
knapped faces.  If anybody has any good storylines for how this carver
proceeded I'd love to hear them.   Thanks to all, especially George
for trying to give account for the earlier knapped pieces by what's
his name.  Kosei?

Simon, great bit of personal narrative!  Staight off the farm are ya?

http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/sugawara.htm

Amabiki carvers:

http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/yamamoto.htm
large fragmented granite arc
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/maruyama.htm
sandstone slab with some missing
# http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/yamazoe.htm#
marble and granite
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/furukawa.htm
some lettering, sensuous conceptual
# http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/watanabe.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/yamazaki.htm
great granite shapes playful
# http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/mizukami.htm#
wild globular rough skinned monster
# http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/maki.htm
very mysterious lichened boulder.  Has it been split apart
and reassembled with pieces missing?
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/tamura.htm
Derby hats carved on mountain peaks?  You gotta like it!
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/sato.htm
rough textured geometry, some are corrupted
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/saito.htm
Hovering cube sheathed in wormy fabric
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/miyazawa.htm
Incomplete obelisk. The power of the dreaming mind to suggest
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/matsuda.htm
Mysterious, spare too subtle for internet
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/tsuchiya.htm
Memorial marker for disappeared island
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/tanaka.htm
Contradictory, fanciful, playful, great formal invention
with transformative gestalt.  An encounter with a living
being.
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/suzuki.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/ohguri.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/murai.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/hirose.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/hatta.htm
nice splitting
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/sugawara.htm
mysterious splitting
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/shibata.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/koguchi.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/okamoto.htm

Figurative Granite:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/hirai.htm

Wood:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/kuniyasu.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/murakami.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/nishikawa.htm
Figurative Wood:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/nagashima.htm

Iron/Steel:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/mochizuki.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/kaizaki.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/ohtsuki.htm

Multimedia:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/fujikura.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/shiga.htm
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/takada.htm

Interesting split marble:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/saji.htm

Ceramic:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/amabiki/artists/inoue.htm