Word: tanto
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Thus, again and again, the landscape tables refer to something other than landscape. Knife in the Rock, 1970, for example, suggests the pointed blade of a Japanese tanto (short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy...