Landscape stones, agates, septaria (tortoiseshell stones), and other stones with unique patterns.How have they stimulated the human imagination?Is there a point where the patterns on the cross sections of stones intersect with abstract artworks? Based on his own stone collection , Caillois, who has extensively discussed themes such as the sacred, play, myth, poetics, and dreams, argues in this unprecedented essaythat "the beauty of stone indicates the existence of universal beauty." This beautiful masterpiece, which was originally published in translation by Shinchosha in 1975 buthas long been difficult to obtain in Japanese, is now being published in a new translation.
