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Music has been described as the spaces between the notes, and in art, too, the areas that are not actually used can be just as important as those that are.
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
An owner and his home vie in their impermanence, as the vanishing dew upon the morning glory.
Chomei • Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki (Penguin Classics)
Were I a king, pensively Would I pace the corridors of the palace. The path I walk goes through the pine-trees; The sea is blue, a butterfly flits by. Miyoshi Tatsuji
Blyth,R. • Zen and Zen Classics 1: From the Upanishads to Huineng (Zen & Zen Classics)
the book of the most precious substance
Gardenista (about gardening- like the title)
Rakuware, which later became synonymous with tea utensils, was in fact first commissioned by Rikyu after he noticed the visual qualities of a locally made roof tile. He asked the tile maker, Chojiro, to fashion pots using the same low-fired technique. Years later, Hideyoshi gave this style his approval by awarding a gold seal to Chojiro’s son with
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Chu’i the draftsman could draw more perfect circles freehand than with a compass. his fingers brought forth spontaneous forms from nowhere. his mind was meanwhile free and without concern with what he was doing. no application was needed, his mind was perfectly simple and knew no obstacle.
Cultivating the heartless center between Heaven and Earth, sages delight in the endless creation of something out of nothing without becoming attached to anything.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
Rikyu took the baton of artlessness from his predecessor, Ikkyu, when he introduced Korean craft pottery into his tea ceremony. The Korean potters, who might have made a hundred similar pots in a day, were probably totally devoid of any thought of artistic aspirations as they worked, and it was just this lack of intellect that proved so attractive
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A profound regard for te underlies the entire higher culture of the Far East, so much so that it has been made the basic principle of every kind of art and craft. While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they are instrumental and secondary, and that superior work
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