Stone Water Bowls
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Kesagata Waterbowl
d55cm h80cm $1,860 -
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Fukurou Waterbowl
h45cm $985 -
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Medium Carved stone Bali bowl
dcm h60cm $950 -
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Tall Plain Stone Bali Bowl
d63-70cm h90-100cm $1,350 -
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Bali Boat Stone Water Bowl
d60cm h27cm $450
d110cm h45cm $1,250 -
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Large Carved Stone Bowl
d68cm h83cm $2,150 -
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Tall Carved Stone Bali Bowl
d55cm h90cm $1,250 -
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Kozenibachi Square Granite Coin Bowl
d30 h16cm $545
d45 92kg $630
d60 h30cm $785 -
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Kozenibachi Round Granite Coin Bowl
d30 h15cm $545
d45 h20cm 86kg $630
d60cm $785 -
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Sakana With Fish Granite China
d30cm $545
d40 h20cm 75kg $645
d50 h25cm $905 -
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Sakana Granite
d30cm $495
d45 h20cm 46kg $575
d50 h25cm $805 -
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Small Stone Water Bowl Bali
$555 -
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OUT OF STOCK Handcarved Granite Bowl Basin
$455 -
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Tetsubachi Granite China
d31 h15cm $410
d45 h22cm 46kg $535
d60cm h30cm 60kg $940 -
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Buddha Carved Bowl Granite China
h61 w55cm 125kg $2,035 -
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Teppasugata Granite China
d45 h40cm 90kg $690 -
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Lion Carved Bowl Granite China
d45 h50cm 75kg $1,065
d60 h60cm $2,035 -
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Ginakuji Granite China
d45 h50cm 85kg $1,035
d60cm h70cm 125kg $1,630 -
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Kikubachi Granite China
d30 h17cm 40kg $425
d45 h25cm $585
d60 h30 65kg $1,065 -
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Natsume Granite
d30cm h35cm $620
d36 h40cm $695
d45 h51cm 95kg $850
d60cm h65cm $1,445 -
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There is a wide variety of water bowl styles and sizes to suit any garden.
Low bowls such as the Tetsubachi placed in a tea garden require the visitor to bend over to wash their hands as an introduction to the traditional tea ceremony.
Taller bowls such as the Natsume can be placed beside verandahs and used in a more upright position. Natural bowls have a rough and sometimes mossy surface to lend an air of age & rusticity to the garden.
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Kozenibachi Water Bowls
“If you learn to be content, you are rich in spirit!”Â
This specific water basin is called a zenigata mizubachi, literally “coin shaped”.
This chouzubachi is a so called shizenseki chouzubachi (made of natural stone) and a look alike of the one found in the Ryoan-ji temple garden at Kyõto. The shape was based on an old-fashioned Chinese coin, a circle representing heaven (yang), pierced by a square hole representing earth (yin)  [3]. The original is said to have been contributed by Mitsukuni Tokugawa (1628-1700), a feudal lord and the compiler of the great History of Japan known as “Dainippon-shi”.
Viewed from above, the water basin has a fascinating inscription. Read clockwise from the left side, the characters mean: arrow, five, short-
The inscription of kanji combined with the square opening of the basin: Ware Tada Shiru Taru also seen as Ware Tada Taru wo Shiru. Roughly translated, this means “I know only satisfaction” or “I am content with what I have” or “I alone know I am content with things”. The text is now found often on water basins in Japan. This is a Zen saying that can also be interpreted as: “If you learn to be content, you are rich in spirit!” or “I learn only to be contented”. He who learns only to be contented is spiritually rich, while the one who does not learn to be contented is spiritually poor even if he is materially wealthy. This is an important concept in Zen philosophy, knowledge for its own sake is sufficient. A person who learns to become content is rich in spirit, even if not in material terms. The more you think about it, the deeper its meaning becomes. Just like the rock garden, if all you can see is a pile of rubble, you have missed the point.