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1 2| superiority. The Emperor Kiasung (1101-1124), who was too great
2 2| The Emperor Kiasung (1101-1124), who was too great an artist
3 2| The Sung tea reached us in 1191 with the return of Yeisai-zenji,
4 2| of the Mongol invasion in 1281 had enabled us to carry
5 1| Chinese minister of finance in 1285 for his arbitrary augmentation
6 1| Giovanni Batista Ramusio (1559), L. Almeida (1576), Maffeno (
7 1| Ramusio (1559), L. Almeida (1576), Maffeno (1588), Tareira (
8 1| Almeida (1576), Maffeno (1588), Tareira (1610), also mentioned
9 1| Maffeno (1588), Tareira (1610), also mentioned tea. In
10 1| It was known in France in 1636, and reached Russia in 1638.
11 1| 1636, and reached Russia in 1638. England welcomed it in
12 1| England welcomed it in 1650 and spoke of it as "That
13 1| Heretics like Henry Saville (1678) denounced drinking it as
14 1| innocence of cocoa. Already in 1711, says the Spectator: "I
15 1| Jonas Hanway (Essay on Tea, 1756) said that men seemed to
16 3| sixth Chinese patriarch Yeno(637-713), founder of Southern
17 3| Chinese patriarch Yeno(637-713), founder of Southern Zen,
18 3| Celestial life. Hiakujo(719-814) the pupil of Baso,
19 2| stages. As early as the year 729 we read of the Emperor Shomu
20 2| by the Emperor Taisung (763-779), and his fame attracted
21 2| the Emperor Taisung (763-779), and his fame attracted
22 3| followed by the great Baso(died 788) who made of Zen a living
23 2| way then in fashion. In 801 the monk Saicho brought
24 3| Celestial life. Hiakujo(719-814) the pupil of Baso, first
25 1| traveller, that after the year 879 the main sources of revenue
26 3| every member, except the abbot, was assigned some special
27 7| full-blown spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow-covered
28 1| impotent fanaticism or else abject voluptuousness. Indian spirituality
29 4| our decorative scheme. The absence of symmetry in Japanese
30 1| not disdain to raise the absurd cry of the Yellow Peril,
31 3| marvelously, for the prices are absurdly cheap, --a prayer for a
32 4| digestion, the representation of abundance on the dining-room walls.
33 1| aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses
34 3| Yangtse-Kiang mind causing an accession of native modes of thought
35 1| to have it found out by accident. For Teaism is the art of
36 4| tea-room proper, designed to accomodate not more than five persons,
37 1| it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this
38 4| a museum. To a Japanese, accustomed to simplicity of ornamentation
39 5| indeed if we valued their achievement simply on the score of age.
40 7| stand forth forever as the acme of tragic grandeur. ~Long
41 6| Cult of Flowers. ~Anyone acquainted with the ways of our tea-
42 5| collector is anxious to acquire specimens to illustrate
43 4| everything suggestive of recent acquirement being tabooed save only
44 1| in the delusion that the acquisition of stiff collars and tall
45 3| play in order to properly act our parts; the conception
46 2| expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of
47 3| movements. Taoism was an active power during the Shin dynasty,
48 5| permitted to know more than the actors. It knows where the mistake
49 4| spirit of Zennism into the actualities of life. Thus the room,
50 2| differed. They sought to actualize what their predecessors
51 | actually
52 4| the tea-ceremony. We might add here that the altar of the
53 1| the resort of wits like Addison and Steele, who beguiled
54 2| the tea-cup, as it lent additional greenness to the beverage,
55 6| was one of the earliest adepts at it. Juko, the tea-master,
56 3| yet there appears to be no adequate presentation of the Taoists
57 5| by his disciples on the admirable taste he had displayed in
58 3| Vinegar Tasters explains admirably the trend of the three doctrines.
59 5| masters, whom they pretend to admire. The name of the artist
60 5| such that no one could help admiring. It shows that you had better
61 4| eaves of the slanting roof admit but few of the sun's rays.
62 1| wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest
63 6| of flowers cut daily to adorn the ballrooms and banquet-tables
64 7| to enter. One by one they advance and take their places. In
65 3| to the most respected and advanced monks were given the more
66 7| his fierce patron. Taking advantage of the coldness which had
67 3| be found long before the advent of Laotse, surnamed the
68 3| do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it
69 1| butter; and would earnestly advise them for their good to order
70 3| like Taoism, is a strong advocate of individualism. Nothing
71 2| was the cosmic law itself. Aeons were but moments--Nirvana
72 1| we stigmatise the untamed aesthete who, regardless of the mundane
73 1| ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult
74 3| has been in the realm of aesthetics. Chinese historians have
75 1| Pathetic and deplorable as such affectations are, they evince our willingness
76 5| personality seeks its own affinities in the creations of the
77 3| and the Zen sectarians affirm that Sakyamuni laid special
78 4| sixteenth century the tea-room afforded a welcome respite from labour
79 2| bitterness reminded him of the aftertaste of a good counsel." Sotumpa
80 3| dwell in mid-air with the Aged one of the Hoang-Ho, who
81 5| Harp? ~Once in the hoary ages in the Ravine of Lungmen
82 1| harmony which is weak against aggression. Will you believe it?--the
83 5| complained many centuries ago, "People criticise a picture
84 4| precedence having been mutually agreed upon while resting in the
85 2| immortals. The seventh cup--ah, but I could take no more!
86 1| nests, the moon wandered aimlessly among the wild chasms of
87 2| naturally--such were the aims of the tea- ceremony. And
88 5| is thus that art becomes akin to religion and ennobles
89 6| may hide at your approach. Alas! The only flower known to
90 3| and war, the mystics and alchemists and the later nature-poets
91 4| bare except for a central alcove in which, behind the altar,
92 1| and by other nations Tay, alias Tee." ~Like all good things
93 2| China again fell under the alien rule of the Manchus in the
94 6| It was the shadow of the All-devouring that the Gheburs greeted
95 3| will be rich in anecdotes, allegories, and aphorisms. We would
96 2| externally in form of paste to alleviate rheumatic pains. The Taoists
97 5| the score of age. Yet we allow our historical sympathy
98 4| painting of flowers is not allowable. If you are using a round
99 2| botany and medicine. It is alluded to in the classics under
100 3| Tao-teking we already find allusions to the importance of self-concentration
101 1| Batista Ramusio (1559), L. Almeida (1576), Maffeno (1588),
102 | along
103 6| you with salt, vinegar, alum, and sometimes, vitriol.
104 6| published for the edification of amateurs. The amount of literature
105 2| probably imported by our ambassadors to the Tang Court and prepared
106 1| her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain,
107 1| heavy duties laid on Tea. American independence dates from
108 5| breath of spring played amidst its branches. The young
109 | amongst
110 6| edification of amateurs. The amount of literature on the subject
111 1| nervous organisation! ~Why not amuse yourselves at our expense?
112 1| fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced
113 3| quota of instruction and amusement. It will be rich in anecdotes,
114 1| poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw
115 3| disciples aimed at retaining ancestral conventions. Taoism cannot
116 1| universe. Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace. ~
117 6| pebbles and sand. With sullen anger the despot entered the tea-room,
118 4| water pitcher should be angular. A cup with a black glaze
119 6| family as illustrious in the annals of flowers as was that of
120 5| to the budding flowers. Anon were heard the dreamy voices
121 3| is afraid of me," was the answer. "No," said the master, "
122 5| tiger roars,--the valley answers again. It is autumn; in
123 4| less than the Muses," an anteroom (midsuya) where the tea
124 5| The veneration born of antiquity is one of the best traits
125 6| his horror of frosts, his anxiety when the buds come slowly,
126 5| species. A collector is anxious to acquire specimens to
127 1| well-regulated families that set apart an hour every morning for
128 3| anecdotes, allegories, and aphorisms. We would fain be on speaking
129 1| the Old, that one need not apologise for contributing his tithe
130 3| Even in that grotesque apology for Taoism which we find
131 2| century we have our first apostle of tea. He was born in an
132 1| East? We Asiatics are often appalled by the curious web of facts
133 6| communities is even more appalling than the way they are treated
134 7| misery while vainly trying to appear happy and contented. We
135 2| These several methods of appreciating the beverage are indicative
136 5| discrimination. We offer flowers of approbation when the artist is safely
137 5| submitted plays for his approval, but only one of the pieces
138 1| excellent and by all physicians approved China drink, called by the
139 6| avalanche at Yoshino or Arashiyama must have realized this.
140 1| finance in 1285 for his arbitrary augmentation of the tea-taxes.
141 5| that of confusing art with archaeology. The veneration born of
142 3| surnamed the Long-Eared. The archaic records of China, especially
143 4| The Tea-Room~To European architects brought up on the traditions
144 5| The forest swayed like an ardent swain deep lost in thought.
145 7| often dared to differ in argument with his fierce patron.
146 2| well as the delight of the aristocracy and priesthood in the beverage.
147 1| making all its votaries aristocrats in taste. ~The long isolation
148 2| becomes soft like a baby's arm and is shredded into powder
149 6| time meet a dread personage armed with scissors and a tiny
150 1| dragon-tailed, resplendent in her armor of fire. She welded the
151 5| steeds. And in the harp arose the tempest of Lungmen,
152 4| of the sensations to be aroused in passing through the roji
153 1| peasants have learned to arrange flowers, our meanest labourer
154 6| Kano-academicians. We possess records of arrangements by the early masters of
155 4| Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces
156 1| its aroma. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness
157 2| from the common spring of art- appreciation. The ceremony
158 2| much-abused terminology of art-classification, we might designate them
159 6| Yoshitsune, the hero of our Arthurian legends, is still extant
160 7| Rikiu places the various articles before them, with the kakemono.
161 6| orchids feel stifled by the artificial heat in your conservatories
162 4| highly honoured class among artisans, their work being no less
163 5| time when Teaism was in the ascendency the Taiko's generals would
164 6| fifteenth century. Our legends ascribe the first flower arrangement
165 6| tablet, which tradition ascribes to Yoshitsune, the hero
166 6| have in mind. They would be ashamed should they chance to cut
167 6| connoisseur of the court of Ashikaga- Yoshimasa, was one of the
168 2| patronage of the Shogun, Ashikaga-Voshinasa, the tea ceremony is fully
169 1| understand, the East? We Asiatics are often appalled by the
170 6| surroundings? Is it not like asking the birds to sing and mate
171 7| etiquette, the chief guest now asks permission to examine the
172 3| doctrines. In its philosophical aspect early Zennism seems to have
173 6| flower in its three different aspects, the Formal, the Semi-Formal,
174 7| one of them to each of the assembled company as a souvenir. The
175 3| Whatever sectarian pride may assert to the contrary one cannot
176 6| which he cultivated with assiduous care. The fame of his convulvuli
177 3| member, except the abbot, was assigned some special work in the
178 4| but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness.
179 6| thrust wires into you to assist your circulation. He would
180 6| connection that they always associate the leaves, if there be
181 6| it proper that you should assume. He would contort your muscles
182 6| You will be wrenched, torn asunder limb by limb, and borne
183 3| poetry of the one breathes an atmosphere entirely distinct from that
184 3| distinction of small and great, an atom posessing equal possibilites
185 6| the beautiful. We shall atone for the deed by consecrating
186 6| that has enslaved us. What atrocities do we not perpetrate in
187 4| antique metal work must not be attacked with the unscrupulous zeal
188 6| rapture when the leaves attain their lustre. In the East
189 6| flower arrangement also attains its full growth. Rikiu and
190 3| have had several laudable attempts. ~Translation is always
191 6| jewelled palaces. A special attendant was detailed to wait upon
192 4| the sect, or of Sakyamuni attended by Kaphiapa and Ananda,
193 2| 763-779), and his fame attracted many followers. Some exquisites
194 3| the present day must be attributed to the sixth Chinese patriarch
195 3| highest bidder by the public auctioneer. Why do men and women like
196 1| in 1285 for his arbitrary augmentation of the tea-taxes. It was
197 3| not stop to discuss the authenticity of such tales, which are
198 1| devastation; we await the great Avatar. Meanwhile, let us have
199 1| little things in others. The average Westerner, in his sleek
200 4| Orient has purposefully avoided the symmetrical as expressing
201 6| of the fearful doom that awaits you? Dream on, sway and
202 6| and the sunbeams, are you aware of the fearful doom that
203 5| masterpiece without being awed by the immense vista of
204 4| centuries are still capable of aweing us by the grandeur and richness
205 5| the memories of the tree awoke! Once more the sweet breath
206 3| in the sixteenth century B.C., kept the development of
207 1| off a fricassee of newborn babes! Nay, we had something worse
208 2| until it becomes soft like a baby's arm and is shredded into
209 1| worse. In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too
210 4| had finished his task, and bade him try again. After a weary
211 4| elaborate canopy and gilded baldachinos, many-coloured and inlaid
212 6| the stately costume of the ballroom, the second in the easy
213 6| flowers cut daily to adorn the ballrooms and banquet-tables of Europe
214 3| the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Even to-day, in spite of
215 1| glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling
216 5| exhibition has been the bane of many museums. ~The claims
217 6| flowers were relentlessly banished from the tea-room. A flower
218 3| Soshi was walking on the bank of a river with a friend. "
219 6| adorn the ballrooms and banquet-tables of Europe and America, to
220 1| Life. Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilisation
221 2| conquest of China under the barbaric rule of the Yuen Emperors,
222 1| wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the
223 4| meditation. The room is bare except for a central alcove
224 5| future will laugh at the barrenness of our art. We are destroying
225 3| ridiculous! The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and
226 3| life. Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism
227 5| before it and await with bated breath its least utterance.
228 6| that the peony should be bathed by a handsome maiden in
229 4| dreams of the past, yet bathing in the sweet unconsciousness
230 1| The travellers Giovanni Batista Ramusio (1559), L. Almeida (
231 6| lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and
232 1| slaughter on Manchurian battlefields. Much comment has been given
233 6| will fight when brought to bay. The birds whose plumage
234 2| bubbles are like crystal beads rolling in a fountain; the
235 4| of brackets, the enormous beams which groaned under the
236 7| many of our textile fabrics bear the names of tea-masters
237 2| Uji district near Kioto, bears still the name of producing
238 6| and even the meekest of beasts will fight when brought
239 5| and rattling hailstones beat upon the boughs with fierce
240 2| that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane. The tea-room
241 4| these simple surroundings, beautifies them with the subtle light
242 7| with the beautiful can die beautifully. The last moments of the
243 | becoming
244 6| do they not bring to the bedside of the sick, what a light
245 6| nodding your heads to the bees as they sing of the dews
246 2| sensation at the time. Luwuh was befriended by the Emperor Taisung (
247 6| flower for its own sake begins with the rise of "Flower-Masters,"
248 3| standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society,
249 1| Addison and Steele, who beguiled themselves over their "dish
250 3| really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked
251 3| everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman
252 4| European buildings which one beholds in modern Japan. We marvel
253 6| a moment they hover like bejewelled clouds and dance above the
254 3| differs in his thoughts and beliefs from his Northern brother
255 1| against aggression. Will you believe it?--the East is better
256 6| Dynasty, hung tiny golden bells on the branches in his garden
257 2| Steeped Tea. We moderns belong to the last school. These
258 5| to-day is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection.
259 3| itself like the dragon, the beloved symbol of the Taoists. It
260 | below
261 1| through a bad conscience, benevolence practiced for the sake of
262 6| on to conceive of a world bereft of their presence. What
263 | besides
264 2| Then emperors used to bestow some rare preparation of
265 1| own sentiments. Perhaps I betray my own ignorance of the
266 2| unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought.
267 3| the Hoang-Ho, who lived betwixt Heaven and Earth because
268 3| knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.
269 7| it is the summons which bids the guests to enter. One
270 4| cluster of summer trees,/A bit of the sea,/A pale evening
271 3| sour, the Buddha called it bitter, and Laotse pronounced it
272 2| appeal, that its delicate bitterness reminded him of the aftertaste
273 7| he gazes on the shining blade of the fatal dagger, and
274 1| for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so
275 6| red-hot coals to stop your bleeding, and thrust wires into you
276 6| the sick, what a light of bliss to the darkness of weary
277 6| are still moist with your blood. Tell me, will this be kindness?
278 6| their homes and ask them to bloom mid strange surroundings?
279 3| kingdoms that it was able to blossom forth in the luxuriance
280 2| preferred heavy bowls of blue-black and dark brown. The Mings,
281 6| that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might
282 7| The singing kettle, as it boils over the brazier, sounds
283 6| sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire. From our ashes
284 5| towards which we feel drawn in bonds of comradeship. The masters
285 6| muscles and dislocate your bones like any osteopath. He would
286 6| plumage is sought to deck some bonnet can fly from its pursuer,
287 2| creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl
288 6| asunder limb by limb, and borne away from your quiet homes.
289 2| If we were inclined to borrow the much-abused terminology
290 1| throwing of tea-chests into Boston harbour. ~There is a subtle
291 2| very early times to Chinese botany and medicine. It is alluded
292 4| iron are so arranged in the bottom as to produce a peculiar
293 6| charming deshabille of the boudoir. ~Our personal sympathies
294 1| permeated the elegance of noble boudoirs, and entered the abode of
295 5| hailstones beat upon the boughs with fierce delight. ~Then
296 1| vulgarity. Knowledge is bought through a bad conscience,
297 4| when these ceased to be bound together they again became
298 2| Sung people for tea knew no bounds. Epicures vied with each
299 6| salute it with a profound bow before making their addresses
300 2| tea, they preferred heavy bowls of blue-black and dark brown.
301 5| to open a whole series of boxes, one within another, before
302 4| a complicated network of brackets, the enormous beams which
303 6| other,--The Night and Day of Brahma. Through the disintegration
304 1| hour every morning for tea, bread and butter; and would earnestly
305 3| properly regulating the breath--essential points in the
306 3| art and poetry of the one breathes an atmosphere entirely distinct
307 2| Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither." ~
308 6| while you may in the gentle breezes of summer. To-morrow a ruthless
309 5| of Errors, in which twin brethren suffer through mistaken
310 3| his finger to taste the brew. The matter-of-fact Confucius
311 4| pictures, statuary, and bric-a-brac gives the impression of
312 5| haughty maiden, swept a cloud bright and fair; but passing, trailed
313 1| tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains
314 3| death. He tempers his own brightness in order to merge himself
315 7| expression of Teaism. In the broad lines of this school we
316 5| sense of art appreciation broadens, and we become able to enjoy
317 6| schools of flower arrangement. Broadly speaking, these divide themselves
318 6| philosophers], who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse
319 5| the earth, mingling their bronzed coils with those of the
320 4| if we study the ancient bronzes of China or the religious
321 3| beliefs from his Northern brother as a member of the Latin
322 6| wash its leaves with soft brushes made of rabbit hair. It
323 6| hardened ears. We are ever brutal to those who love and serve
324 1| bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing
325 3| the six ways through which Buddhahood may be reached, and the
326 6| art, I offer thee to the Buddhas of the past, of the present,
327 1| universe. Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and
328 2| like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising
329 6| to the river or carefully buries it in the ground. Monuments
330 5| painting, he rushes into the burning building and seizes the
331 1| East from the leaves of a bush. The travellers Giovanni
332 3| citizenship. Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real
333 1| informed us that you had bushy tails somewhere hidden in
334 1| morning for tea, bread and butter; and would earnestly advise
335 6| known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless
336 6| or to be thrust into the buttonhole of one who would not dare
337 3| Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which
338 3| said the horror-stricken bystander. "I wish to get the Shali
339 2| and ending with the bamboo cabinet for containing all these
340 4| of the makers of lacquer cabinets. ~The tea-room is not only
341 6| whispering in mysterious cadence among the trees, have you
342 6| sing and mate cooped up in cages? Who knows but that the
343 2| in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with
344 7| used in the tea-ceremony calling forth the utmost expenditure
345 1| wounds on account of the callousness of our nervous organisation! ~
346 1| of laughing at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus
347 1| ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream
348 6| combination with a budding camellia; it is an echo of departing
349 3| Shali out of the ashes," camply rejoined the Zen. "But you
350 4| still see the elaborate canopy and gilded baldachinos,
351 1| main sources of revenue in Canton were the duties on salt
352 5| new glory. Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay
353 4| that we find the Imperial capitals so frequently removed from
354 6| once when you were first captured? What were the crimes you
355 2| take tea from the Chinese caravansaries, points to the survival
356 6| selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death
357 5| harpists. With tender hand he caressed the harp as one might seek
358 3| some special work in the caretaking of the monastery, and curiously
359 4| and precision. Indeed, the carpenters employed by the tea-masters
360 2| The new seeds which he carried home were successfully planted
361 2| in 1281 had enabled us to carry on the Sung movement so
362 3| a piece of wood not yet carved; vacant, like a valley;
363 4| and sport, the elaborate carvings of fishes and fruit? Why
364 4| at Nikko and in the Nijo castle in Kyoto, we see structural
365 7| Imperial villa of Katsura, the castles of Najoya and Nijo, and
366 4| may hear the echoes of a cataract muffled by clouds, of a
367 5| its branches. The young cataracts, as they danced down the
368 5| once he is and is not. He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but
369 1| hospitality, in the common catechism about cream and sugar, we
370 5| whereas I unconsciously cater to the taste of the majority.
371 1| five-coloured rainbow in her magic cauldron and rebuilt the Chinese
372 3| of the Yangtse-Kiang mind causing an accession of native modes
373 4| is sober in tint from the ceiling to the floor; the guests
374 5| cold disdain! In our self- centered century, what inspiration
375 4| not to put it in the exact centre, lest it divide the space
376 7| ingenuity on the parts of our ceramists. The Seven Kilns of Enshiu
377 1| It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal
378 2| romance of the Tang and Sung ceremonials are not to be found in his
379 2| time that modern ideograph Cha was coined, evidently a
380 2| Europe, so the Tea-ideals characterise the various moods of Oriental
381 4| substituted various Chinese characters according to their conception
382 5| negligence of the samurai in charge. Resolved at all hazards
383 6| with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the
384 1| harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the
385 1| welcomed the morning." ~Charles Lamb, a professed devotee,
386 1| harbour. ~There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which
387 4| these pictured victims of chase and sport, the elaborate
388 1| aimlessly among the wild chasms of the night. In despair
389 4| the extreme simplicity and chasteness of its scheme of decoration,
390 3| is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman
391 3| dialogue recalls that of Soshi (Chauntse), the Taoist. One day Soshi
392 3| the prices are absurdly cheap, --a prayer for a ticket
393 3| development of individualism in check for a long while, so that
394 6| fuel for a fire, cuts his cherished plants in order to entertain
395 6| a slender spray of wild cherries in combination with a budding
396 6| death--certainly the Japanese cherry blossoms do, as they freely
397 5| are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow
398 4| the ground." "Young fool," chided the tea-master, "that is
399 6| intent gaze of a beautiful child recalls our lost hopes.
400 1| constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. He was
401 1| China drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, and by other nations
402 1| travellers. It is rarely that the chivalrous pen of a Lafcadio Hearn
403 6| Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that
404 6| flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not
405 3| free-thought. Laotse and Soshi (Chuangtse) were both Southerners and
406 2| various names of Tou, Tseh, Chung, Kha, and Ming, and was
407 3| flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what
408 7| brazier, sounds like some cicada pouring forth his woes to
409 6| into you to assist your circulation. He would diet you with
410 7| in the tea-room. In all circumstances serenity of mind should
411 3| diploma for an honourable citizenship. Hide yourself under a bushel
412 4| may be in the midst of a city, and yet feel as if he were
413 1| arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit
414 5| democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered
415 5| Peiwoh sang of war, of clashing steel and trampling steeds.
416 4| distinct and highly honoured class among artisans, their work
417 5| given period or school. We classify too much and enjoy too little.
418 1| society. In the delicate clatter of trays and saucers, in
419 4| for there is an art in cleaning and dusting. A piece of
420 3| only as impediments to a clear perception of Truth. It
421 6| weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire. From
422 7| Daruma alike/ Thou hast cleft thy way." ~With a smile
423 4| and was well suited to the climatic conditions of the country.
424 4| the following verses: "A cluster of summer trees,/A bit of
425 6| would burn you with red-hot coals to stop your bleeding, and
426 6| the furred animal whose coat you covet for your own may
427 1| lotus, if not on mice and cockroaches. It is either impotent fanaticism
428 1| the simpering innocence of cocoa. Already in 1711, says the
429 3| at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them
430 6| of flowers must have been coeval with the poetry of love.
431 1| the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence
432 1| marvellous rapidity. The coffee-houses of London in the early half
433 5| mingling their bronzed coils with those of the silver
434 2| modern ideograph Cha was coined, evidently a corruption
435 7| Taking advantage of the coldness which had for some time
436 1| the acquisition of stiff collars and tall silk hats comprised
437 5| perceptions. The tea- masters collected only objects which fell
438 5| individual in the species. A collector is anxious to acquire specimens
439 4| worship or pilgrimage, but a college room where the students
440 1| are flocking to Western colleges for the equipment of modern
441 1| plays in modern history. Colonial America resigned herself
442 3| sketches to the elaborately coloured paintings of the classic
443 1| and Matter met in mortal combat. At last the Yellow Emperor,
444 6| each other in forming new combinations. We must remember, however,
445 6| Shoha, another tea-master, combined a poem on the Beauty of
446 1| to lose their stature and comeliness, women their beauty through
447 1| economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than
448 1| Manchurian battlefields. Much comment has been given lately to
449 2| daily routine are as much a commentary of racial ideals as the
450 2| forgotten. We find a Ming commentator at loss to recall the shape
451 4| art objects has been often commented on by Western critics. This,
452 1| fast vanishing amongst us. Commerce has forced the European
453 1| civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian
454 3| certainly not a Buddha and I am committing no sacrilege." Then he turned
455 4| between daimyo, samurai, and commoner. Nowadays industrialism
456 4| creation of Senno-Soyeki, commonly known by his later name
457 5| cold in contrast the modern commonplaces! In the former we feel the
458 3| same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant
459 3| Teuton. In ancient days, when communication was even more difficult
460 3| contra-distinction to the communism of Northern China which
461 6| of flowers among Western communities is even more appalling than
462 6| fact that in spite of our companionship with flowers we have not
463 2| tea of the later China is comparatively recent among us, being only
464 7| of art, it is as nothing compared to that which they have
465 1| willing to learn. Some of my compatriots have adopted too much of
466 4| but quite recently that a competent student of Western architecture
467 1| Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony
468 3| and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good
469 5| work. As a Chinese critic complained many centuries ago, "People
470 4| only by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility
471 2| interesting. It was the completing, not the completion, which
472 1| simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral
473 4| feet high, supported, by a complicated network of brackets, the
474 1| expense? Asia returns the compliment. There would be further
475 5| Kobori-Enshiu. Enshiu was complimented by his disciples on the
476 6| No-dances, the Hachinoki, composed during the Ashikaga period,
477 1| collars and tall silk hats comprised the attainment of your civilisation.
478 5| we feel drawn in bonds of comradeship. The masters are immortal,
479 7| robe which it had hitherto concealed. Tenderly he gazes on the
480 1| For Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover
481 6| them? It frightens on to conceive of a world bereft of their
482 4| being possible only through concentration upon some central motive.
483 6| vase imposes on it. New conceptions and methods of execution
484 6| We watch with delight his concern about water and sunshine,
485 3| is real except that which concerns the working of our own minds.
486 6| is interesting, but in a concerto with painting and sculpture
487 5| must be based on mutual concession. The spectator must cultivate
488 5| In condemning it we but condemn ourselves. We say that the
489 1| crimes too picturesque to be condemned. Our writers in the past--
490 7| alone was granted to the condemned-- the honor of dying by his
491 5| is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
492 2| with Nature, but does not condescend to conquer or worship her.
493 1| sanguinary warfare if Russia had condescended to know Japan better. What
494 4| well suited to the climatic conditions of the country. In the Golden
495 6| modifications of form as conduced to the expression of artistic
496 7| they have exerted on the conduct of life. Not only in the
497 7| and conversation should be conducted as never to mar the harmony
498 5| critic once made a charming confession. Said he: "In my young days
499 6| may even be your lot to be confined in some narrow vessel with
500 3| are valuable, however, as confirming the early use of the beverage