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501 4| spared in the disastrous conflagrations of centuries are still capable
502 4| our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas
503 4| Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us
504 3| as it is and, unlike the Confucians or the Buddhists, tries
505 5| common mistake is that of confusing art with archaeology. The
506 4| day in the midst of such confusion of color and form as is
507 4| room where the students congregate for discussion and the practice
508 1| the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion
509 4| garden path (the roji) which connects the machiai with the tea-room.
510 6| Soami, the great painter and connoisseur of the court of Ashikaga-
511 2| but does not condescend to conquer or worship her. His Leaf-tea
512 6| him. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it
513 2| resulted in the devastation and conquest of China under the barbaric
514 6| shall atone for the deed by consecrating ourselves to Purity and
515 6| a desire to see them, in consequence of which Rikiu invited him
516 1| Japan better. What dire consequences to humanity lie in the contemptuous
517 6| artificial heat in your conservatories and hopelessly long for
518 3| non-resistance, vacuum, while conserving one's own strength for victory
519 1| he will say. But when we consider how small after all the
520 2| Chaking" must have created considerable sensation at the time. Luwuh
521 6| fades, the master tenderly consigns it to the river or carefully
522 4| century. The early tea-room consisted merely of a portion of the
523 1| East can meet in mutual consolation. ~The Taoists relate that
524 7| of being implicated in a conspiracy to poison the despot. It
525 7| troubles which we call life are constantly in a state of misery while
526 1| thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness
527 2| the tea ceremony is fully constituted and made into an independent
528 2| faith in illusions which constitutes the eternal youth and vigour
529 1| West have "no tea" in your constitution? ~Let us stop the continents
530 4| and are not independent constructions. The Sukiya consists of
531 5| embers is found a half- consumed corps, within which reposes
532 6| to-day. The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred
533 4| secret of making a roji was contained in the ancient ditty: "I
534 5| their confidence. Who can contemplate a masterpiece without being
535 4| we sat at a festive board contemplating, with a secret shock to
536 4| appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we
537 1| consequences to humanity lie in the contemptuous ignoring of Eastern problems!
538 7| trying to appear happy and contented. We stagger in the attempt
539 6| together they might garland a continent. Beside this utter carelessness
540 1| constitution? ~Let us stop the continents from hurling epigrams at
541 4| involves the conception of a continued need of change in decorative
542 2| though the latter still continues to hold its place as the
543 6| should assume. He would contort your muscles and dislocate
544 3| Southern Chinese mind in contra-distinction to the communism of Northern
545 6| this school the Natural in contradistinction to the Naturalesque and
546 3| pride may assert to the contrary one cannot help being impressed
547 4| Western architecture, but also contrasts strongly with the classical
548 1| one need not apologise for contributing his tithe to the furtherance
549 5| the power of tradition and conventionality, as well as our hereditary
550 3| aimed at retaining ancestral conventions. Taoism cannot be understood
551 7| should be maintained, and conversation should be conducted as never
552 6| a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum,
553 4| interior of a house is often converted into a museum. To a Japanese,
554 4| Abode of Vacancy, besides conveying the Taoist theory of the
555 4| talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be
556 6| assiduous care. The fame of his convulvuli reached the ear of the Taiko,
557 6| he see any vestige of the convulvus. The ground had been leveled
558 2| only feel the breath of cool wind that rises in my sleeves.
559 6| the birds to sing and mate cooped up in cages? Who knows but
560 4| loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said
561 4| be found in the darkest corner, for if any exists the host
562 5| is found a half- consumed corps, within which reposes the
563 6| aimed at a classic idealism corresponding to that of the Kano-academicians.
564 4| the sea beach/ A solitary cottage stands/In the waning light/
565 4| to be other than a mere cottage--a straw hut, as we call
566 2| the aftertaste of a good counsel." Sotumpa wrote of the strength
567 6| last century said he could count over one hundred different
568 6| Death as Life? They are but counterparts one of the other,--The Night
569 6| that pursued in Western countries. Here we are apt to see
570 4| should be provided for each couple that married. It is on account
571 6| echo of departing winter coupled with the prophecy of spring.
572 1| Thackeray, for instance, and of course, Shakespeare. The poets
573 5| render them this simple courtesy, and thus often miss the
574 7| kin. Rikiu was no servile courtier, and had often dared to
575 6| furred animal whose coat you covet for your own may hide at
576 6| significance of it. They are not cowards, like men. Some flowers
577 5| the thundering avalanche crashed through the hills. In ecstasy
578 1| the common catechism about cream and sugar, we know that
579 2| of the leaves must have "creases like the leathern boot of
580 4| his meaning. He wished to create the attitude of a newly
581 3| results the teachings of their creed. The tale will not be without
582 4| Then he will bend low and creep into the room through a
583 5| truly vain, for their is no crevice in his heart for love to
584 1| forgot to fill two tiny crevices in the blue firmament. Thus
585 4| over the garden gold and crimson leaves, scraps of the brocade
586 5| many centuries ago, "People criticise a picture by their ear."
587 5| unscathed through centuries of criticism and come down to us still
588 4| commented on by Western critics. This, also, is a result
589 3| is "reluctant, as one who crosses a stream in winter; hesitating
590 1| Asia may also awaken to the cruel sense of the White Disaster.
591 6| time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by
592 6| Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one
593 2| The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a
594 5| of rain, the wail of the cuckoo. Hark! a tiger roars,--the
595 1| and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer, painting--
596 6| regard flowers. They do not cull at random, but carefully
597 3| Chinese civilisation which culminated with the establishment of
598 2| ceremony that we see the culmination of tea-ideals. Our successful
599 5| concession. The spectator must cultivate the proper attitude for
600 6| said in favor of him who cultivates plants. The man of the pot
601 5| past. It is true that with cultivation our sense of art appreciation
602 2| the immortals. The seventh cup--ah, but I could take no
603 2| beverage was poured into cups and drunk. O nectar! The
604 3| caretaking of the monastery, and curiously enough, to the novices was
605 2| boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty
606 6| Flow, flow, flow, flow, the current of life is ever onward.
607 1| indeed shattered in the Cyclopean struggle for wealth and
608 7| shining blade of the fatal dagger, and in exquisite verse
609 5| young cataracts, as they danced down the ravine, laughed
610 3| not. It revolves without danger to itself and is the mother
611 7| friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour. It was an age rife
612 2| bowls of blue-black and dark brown. The Mings, with their
613 6| you may discover in the darkened coolness of the tokonoma
614 4| dust will be found in the darkest corner, for if any exists
615 7| Through Buddha/ And through Daruma alike/ Thou hast cleft thy
616 1| Tea. American independence dates from the throwing of tea-chests
617 4| the Hoodo temple at Uji, dating from the tenth century,
618 6| trembling grey of a spring dawn, when the birds were whispering
619 4| faraway hill. ~Even in the daytime the light in the room is
620 7| writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of
621 3| being in the world," for it deals with the present--ourselves.
622 7| One only, the nearest and dearest, is requested to remain
623 6| men. Some flowers glory in death--certainly the Japanese cherry
624 2| tournaments were held to decide their superiority. The Emperor
625 4| classical interiors was decidedly regular in its arrangement.
626 6| whose plumage is sought to deck some bonnet can fly from
627 1| awaiting him in the dubious decoction proclaims that in this single
628 4| and palaces was profusely decorated. In the Hoodo temple at
629 7| architecture and interior decorations, and established the new
630 6| schools. The tea-master deems his duty ended with the
631 4| Confucianism, with its deep-seated idea of dualism, and Northern
632 1| not penetrate your culture deeply, but at least we are willing
633 2| immaculate purity in tea which defied corruption as a truly virtuous
634 6| pluck thee, my hand will defile thee, O flower! Standing
635 3| were but relative terms. Definition is always limitation--the "
636 2| through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar
637 2| latter-day Chinese tea is a delicious beverage, but not an ideal.
638 3| speaking terms with the delightful emperor who never died because
639 3| river with a friend. "How delightfully the fishes are enjoying
640 2| virtues of relieving fatigue, delighting the soul, strengthening
641 4| brocade of autumn! What Rikiu demanded was not cleanliness alone,
642 4| theory of evanescence and its demands for the mastery of spirit
643 1| the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries
644 5| in real feeling. In this democratic age of ours men clamour
645 4| passing through an age of democritisation in art, while awaiting the
646 1| triumphed over Shuhyung, the demon of darkness and earth. The
647 1| Perhaps nowadays it is our demure contemplation of the Imperfect
648 1| like Henry Saville (1678) denounced drinking it as a filthy
649 6| wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human.
650 7| impossible, indeed, to find any department of art in which the tea-masters
651 4| the favorite subjects for depiction rather than the human figure,
652 5| have me like." It is to be deplored that so few of us really
653 1| Marco Polo records the deposition of a Chinese minister of
654 1| Indian spirituality has been derided as ignorance, Chinese sobriety
655 3| unification from which we derive the name China. It would
656 7| new style which we have described in the chapter of the tea-room,
657 2| the fifth chapter Luwuh describes the method of making tea.
658 2| devoted to the enumeration and description of the twenty-four members
659 5| again. It is autumn; in the desert night, sharp like a sword
660 6| our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of
661 6| the third in the charming deshabille of the boudoir. ~Our personal
662 2| art-classification, we might designate them respectively, the Classic,
663 7| school, as it is generally designated, is an expression of Teaism.
664 4| of the tea-room proper, designed to accomodate not more than
665 6| nothing sacred except our own desires. Shrine after shrine has
666 4| ecclesiastical, were not to be despised even as regards their mere
667 5| It is indeed a shame that despite all our rhapsodies about
668 7| his own hand. ~On the day destined for his self-immolation,
669 2| rule of the Yuen Emperors, destroyed all the fruits of Sung culture.
670 6| stand helpless before the destroyer. If they shriek in their
671 5| barrenness of our art. We are destroying the beautiful in life. Would
672 6| A special attendant was detailed to wait upon each flower
673 2| said to have been able to detect the tea made by Luwuh from
674 6| money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make
675 2| The fourth chapter is devoted to the enumeration and description
676 1| Charles Lamb, a professed devotee, sounded the true note of
677 5| masterpiece, as well as the devotion of a trusted samurai. ~We
678 2| horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold
679 6| bees as they sing of the dews and the sunbeams, are you
680 5| the celebrated painting of Dharuma by Sesson, suddenly takes
681 3| derived from the Sanscrit word Dhyana, which signifies meditation.
682 3| murderous instinct." The dialogue recalls that of Soshi (Chauntse),
683 4| from two to three feet in diameter and from thirty to forty
684 5| particular idiosyncracies dictate the mode of our perceptions.
685 | did
686 6| your circulation. He would diet you with salt, vinegar,
687 7| and had often dared to differ in argument with his fierce
688 3| vast as Europe and has a differentiation of idiosyncrasies marked
689 7| is over; the guests with difficulty restraining their tears,
690 5| industrialism, would give more digestible food for artistic enjoyment
691 4| with a secret shock to our digestion, the representation of abundance
692 1| drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the
693 4| far away from the dust and din of civilisation. Great was
694 4| representation of abundance on the dining-room walls. Why these pictured
695 3| for a ticket to heaven, a diploma for an honourable citizenship.
696 3| emblem of life--and each dipped in his finger to taste the
697 4| furnished by the bamboo dipper and the linen napkin, both
698 2| second. At the third boil, a dipperful of cold water is poured
699 1| know Japan better. What dire consequences to humanity
700 1| cruel sense of the White Disaster. You may laugh at us for
701 4| have been spared in the disastrous conflagrations of centuries
702 2| on the Sung movement so disastrously cut off in China itself
703 2| choice of leaves. Salt was discarded forever. The enthusiasm
704 3| formed a part of the Zen discipline and every least action must
705 7| it upon the mat, thereby disclosing the immaculate white death
706 4| itself. True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally
707 1| the period of the great discoveries that the European people
708 2| vied with each other in discovering new varieties, and regular
709 5| to override our aesthetic discrimination. We offer flowers of approbation
710 3| elixir. We shall not stop to discuss the authenticity of such
711 2| that is to say, old and disenchanted. He has lost that sublime
712 2| all. Teaism was Taoism in disguise. ~
713 1| beguiled themselves over their "dish of tea." The beverage soon
714 7| tea-masters. Many of our delicate dishes, as well as our way of serving
715 6| contort your muscles and dislocate your bones like any osteopath.
716 4| It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past,
717 2| species. He himself wrote a dissertation on the twenty kinds of tea,
718 4| muffled by clouds, of a distant sea breaking among the rocks,
719 2| made it look pinkish and distasteful. It was because he used
720 2| places, one of which, the Uji district near Kioto, bears still
721 2| paintings. Not a colour to disturb the tone of the room, not
722 4| contained in the ancient ditty: "I look beyond;/Flowers
723 2| evolution may be roughly divided into three main stages:
724 1| Eastern sea rose a queen, the divine Niuka, horn-crowned and
725 3| But, after all, what great doctrine is there which is easy to
726 1| vault and shivered the blue dome of jade into fragments.
727 7| the arrangement of all our domestic details, do we feel the
728 3| situations. The whole can always dominate the part. ~These Taoists'
729 3| than in its capacity for dominating subsequent movements. Taoism
730 6| you aware of the fearful doom that awaits you? Dream on,
731 4| the room through a small door not more than three feet
732 2| administered as an internal dose, but often applied externally
733 3| speculators on Reality who doubted whether a white horse was
734 1| Niuka, horn-crowned and dragon-tailed, resplendent in her armor
735 1| East and the West, like two dragons tossed in a sea of ferment,
736 1| overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless
737 7| and each in turn silently drains his cup, the host last of
738 5| victory. Many of our favourite dramas are based on the loss and
739 5| the first principles of dramatic composition the importance
740 2| image of Bodhi Dharma and drank tea out of a single bowl
741 1| grandees." Yet in spite of such drawbacks tea-drinking spread with
742 4| portion of the ordinary drawing-room partitioned off by screens
743 6| their addresses to the host. Drawings from masterpieces are made
744 1| tea-equipage." Samuel Johnson draws his own portrait as "a hardened
745 6| you might some time meet a dread personage armed with scissors
746 5| flowers. Anon were heard the dreamy voices of summer with its
747 2| tea-room was an oasis in the dreary waste of existence where
748 1| how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst
749 4| great because they never drew from the antique. ~The term,
750 4| stones, beneath which lay dried pine needles, and passed
751 1| hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted
752 2| it extensively to prevent drowsiness during their long hours
753 2| was poured into cups and drunk. O nectar! The filmy leaflet
754 1| fate awaiting him in the dubious decoction proclaims that
755 6| painting by Soami of wild ducks flying in the air. Shoha,
756 1| would we await the time when due respect shall be paid to
757 6| remorselessly flung upon a dung heap. ~Why were the flowers
758 4| noteworthy examples of the durability of our wooden architecture.
759 4| is an art in cleaning and dusting. A piece of antique metal
760 6| The tea-master deems his duty ended with the selection
761 3| ourselves are the wind, or dwell in mid-air with the Aged
762 2| ingredients except salt. He dwells also on the much-discussed
763 7| condemned-- the honor of dying by his own hand. ~On the
764 4| however, was different. The dynamic nature of their philosophy
765 1| bread and butter; and would earnestly advise them for their good
766 6| never reaches our hardened ears. We are ever brutal to those
767 7| with the evanescence of all earthly things. The singing kettle,
768 4| proved itself strong against earthquakes, and was well suited to
769 3| special contribution of Zen to Easthern thought was its recognition
770 6| our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and
771 6| maddening thirst that warns of ebbing life. ~Flowers, if you were
772 4| edifices, whether secular or ecclesiastical, were not to be despised
773 6| budding camellia; it is an echo of departing winter coupled
774 4| in which one may hear the echoes of a cataract muffled by
775 2| poets and ancients. He is an eclectic and politely accepts the
776 1| enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in
777 5| crashed through the hills. In ecstasy the Celestial monarch asked
778 4| itself. Our ancient noble edifices, whether secular or ecclesiastical,
779 4| tea-masters in producing these effects of serenity and purity.
780 4| gorgeousness of Arabian or Moorish effort. ~The simplicity and purism
781 5| but all in vain were the efforts of those who in turn tried
782 1| groping in the shadow of egotism and vulgarity. Knowledge
783 1| in the early half of the eighteenth century became, in fact,
784 4| the Saint Manjushiri and eighty-four thousand disciples of Buddha
785 | either
786 3| and white sketches to the elaborately coloured paintings of the
787 2| method of making tea. He eliminates all ingredients except salt.
788 | elsewhere
789 2| genius of the Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state
790 1| riot in the springtide of emancipated emotions, as one "with too
791 5| extinguished. Among the smoking embers is found a half- consumed
792 3| before a jar of vinegar--the emblem of life--and each dipped
793 6| arrangement which did not embody these principles was considered
794 2| floated like waterlilies on emerald streams. It was of such
795 3| measure of your aesthetic emotion. ~He whohad made himself
796 2| steeped, mark the distinct emotional impulses of the Tang, the
797 7| flowers. They have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity,
798 3| Zennism we shall find that it emphasises the teachings of Taoism.
799 4| Indeed, the carpenters employed by the tea-masters form
800 4| up. A more lasting style, employing brick and stone, would have
801 6| same spirit which moved the Empress Komio, one of our most renowned
802 3| water pitcher dwelt in the emptiness where water might be put,
803 4| The tea-room is absolutely empty, except for what may be
804 4| the tea-room resulted from emulation of the Zen monastery. A
805 2| Mongol invasion in 1281 had enabled us to carry on the Sung
806 3| found in the vacant space enclosed by the roof and the walls,
807 4| off was called the Kakoi (enclosure), a name still applied to
808 3| up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance.
809 3| iconoclastic as a result of their endeavor to recognise the Buddha
810 | ending
811 6| autumn. ~Flower stories are endless. We shall recount but one
812 1| to oppression until human endurance gave way before the heavy
813 7| the Taiko and Rikiu, the enemies of the latter accused him
814 3| draw out and exhaust the enemy's strength by non-resistance,
815 6| that such laws could be enforced nowadays against those who
816 4| some individual taste is an enforcement of the principle of vitality
817 1| nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics,
818 4| fierce warriors and statesmen engaged in the unification and reconstruction
819 1| reached Russia in 1638. England welcomed it in 1650 and
820 5| latter only a formal salute. Engrossed in his technique, the modern
821 4| selected and arranged to enhance the beauty of the principal
822 4| non-existence of space to the truly enlightened. Again the roji, the garden
823 5| opening the path to future enlightenment. The mere fact that they
824 1| The Web of Indian Life" enlivens the Oriental darkness with
825 1| fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--
826 5| becomes akin to religion and ennobles mankind. It is this which
827 6| we can evolve new forms ennobling the world idea? We only
828 6| that it is Matter that has enslaved us. What atrocities do we
829 3| many a weighty discussion ensued while weeding the garden,
830 6| cherished plants in order to entertain a wandering friar. The friar
831 4| the ideas of cleanliness entertained by the tea-masters. Rikiu
832 1| for high treatments and entertainments, presents being made thereof
833 6| It rests there like an enthroned prince, and the guests or
834 6| plant with us. Rikiu had an entire garden planted with it,
835 2| third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some
836 6| the combination becomes entrancing. Sekishiu once placed some
837 2| chapter is devoted to the enumeration and description of the twenty-four
838 1| virtues too refined to be envied, and accused of crimes too
839 2| for tea knew no bounds. Epicures vied with each other in
840 1| continents from hurling epigrams at each other, and be sadder
841 3| during the Shin dynasty, that epoch of Chinese unification from
842 5| fill up. In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling,
843 4| colour and exquisite detail equals the utmost gorgeousness
844 7| attempt to keep our moral equilibrium, and see forerunners of
845 1| Western colleges for the equipment of modern education. Our
846 4| the room, like the other equipments of the tea-ceremony, reflects
847 3| centuries before the Christian Era. ~The germ of Taoist speculation
848 6| Monuments are sometimes erected to their memory. ~The birth
849 5| resembling the Comedy of Errors, in which twin brethren
850 1| filthy custom. Jonas Hanway (Essay on Tea, 1756) said that
851 1| the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect,
852 4| princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that
853 5| Our very individuality establishes in one sense a limit to
854 1| which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed
855 7| Hideyoshi, and high the estimation in which the great warrior
856 1| piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself. ~
857 3| inconsistent with the prosaic ethical notions of their contemporary
858 2| self-realisation. Wangyucheng eulogised tea as "flooding his soul
859 4| every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief
860 4| waning light/Of an autumn eve." ~Others, like Kobori-Enshiu,
861 4| walked in the twilight of evergreens over the regular irregularities
862 1| among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates
863 4| We are often too much in evidence as it is, and in spite of
864 2| ideograph Cha was coined, evidently a corruption of the classic
865 1| such affectations are, they evince our willingness to approach
866 6| flowers if thereby we can evolve new forms ennobling the
867 4| taken not to put it in the exact centre, lest it divide the
868 1| very spirit of politeness exacts that you say what you are
869 7| guest now asks permission to examine the tea-equipage. Rikiu
870 4| of the Sun-Goddess, is an example of one of these ancient
871 1| and spoke of it as "That excellent and by all physicians approved
872 3| themselves in the water!" exclaimed Soshi. His friend spake
873 2| The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity
874 7| to that which they have exerted on the conduct of life.
875 3| one seeks to draw out and exhaust the enemy's strength by
876 5| so-called scientific method of exhibition has been the bane of many
877 4| feeling in those who can exist day after day in the midst
878 7| which had for some time existed between the Taiko and Rikiu,
879 4| darkest corner, for if any exists the host is not a tea-master.
880 5| only to find all means of exit cut off by the flames. Thinking
881 4| freedom that lay in the expanse beyond. ~Thus prepared the
882 1| the other. You have gained expansion at the cost of restlessness;
883 4| architecture, we could hardly expect the outsider to appreciate
884 1| that you say what you are expected to say, and no more. But
885 4| perhaps even greater than that expended on the building of the richest
886 7| calling forth the utmost expenditure of ingenuity on the parts
887 1| amuse yourselves at our expense? Asia returns the compliment.
888 3| the Three Vinegar Tasters explains admirably the trend of the
889 3| Southerners and the greatest exponents of the New School. On the
890 5| holies. Rarely was the object exposed to view, and then only to
891 3| is there which is easy to expound? The ancient sages never
892 1| acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and
893 4| avoided the symmetrical as expressing not only completion, but
894 3| unchangeless" are but terms expressive of a stoppage of growth.
895 2| attracted many followers. Some exquisites were said to have been able
896 6| Arthurian legends, is still extant in one of the Japanese monasteries [
897 2| immortality. The Buddhists used it extensively to prevent drowsiness during
898 2| dose, but often applied externally in form of paste to alleviate
899 5| wound. The fire is at last extinguished. Among the smoking embers
900 1| which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but
901 2| will, and repairing the eyesight. It was not only administered
902 7| pottery. many of our textile fabrics bear the names of tea-masters
903 6| comes to all." Destruction faces us wherever we turn. Destruction
904 6| voluminous. When the flower fades, the master tenderly consigns
905 4| this garden path cannot fail to remember how his spirit,
906 5| he replied, "others have failed because they sang but of
907 6| when you seemed ready to faint. It would be his boast that
908 2| He has lost that sublime faith in illusions which constitutes
909 7| Korin and Kenzan, almost fall into the shade. The whole
910 2| spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation
911 7| tea-master Honnami-Koyetsu, famed also as a lacquer artist
912 5| to our consideration? How familiar and sympathetic are they
913 1| speculations to all well-regulated families that set apart an hour every
914 1| cockroaches. It is either impotent fanaticism or else abject voluptuousness.
915 1| curious web of facts and fancies which has been woven concerning
916 4| soughing of pines on some faraway hill. ~Even in the daytime
917 1| only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused
918 5| costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful. To the
919 1| Such misconceptions are fast vanishing amongst us. Commerce
920 1| patriotism as the result of fatalism. It has been said that we
921 4| the son turned to Rikiu: "Father, there is nothing more to
922 2| the virtues of relieving fatigue, delighting the soul, strengthening
923 6| heaven. ~Much may be said in favor of him who cultivates plants.
924 1| introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism.
925 6| sunbeams, are you aware of the fearful doom that awaits you? Dream
926 1| saucers, in the soft rustle of feminine hospitality, in the common
927 6| sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild
928 3| action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu,
929 1| dragons tossed in a sea of ferment, in vain strive to regain
930 2| some fragments of their fervent adoration of the "froth
931 4| a time have we sat at a festive board contemplating, with
932 3| and especially during the feudal period, this difference
933 6| water and sunshine, his feuds with parasites, his horror
934 7| of the tea-masters in the field of art, it is as nothing
935 1| cost at the start (about fifteen or sixteen shillings a pound)
936 6| at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes
937 6| the meekest of beasts will fight when brought to bay. The
938 4| depiction rather than the human figure, the latter being present
939 5| lies, and pities the poor figures on the board who innocently
940 4| Western interior permanently filled with a vast array of pictures,
941 2| and drunk. O nectar! The filmy leaflet hung like scaly
942 1| denounced drinking it as a filthy custom. Jonas Hanway (Essay
943 2| was this Zen ritual which finally developed into the Tea-ceremony
944 1| of a Chinese minister of finance in 1285 for his arbitrary
945 6| lovely you are while her fingers are still moist with your
946 4| said Rikiu, when Shoan had finished his task, and bade him try
947 5| universal in our sympathies. Our finite nature, the power of tradition
948 1| tiny crevices in the blue firmament. Thus began the dualism
949 3| him thus: "You are not a fish; how do you know that the
950 6| burner in the form of a fisherman's hut and some wild flowers
951 1| of fire. She welded the five-coloured rainbow in her magic cauldron
952 3| always limitation--the "fixed" and "unchangeless" are
953 5| means of exit cut off by the flames. Thinking only of the picture,
954 6| placed some water-plants in a flat receptacle to suggest the
955 2| racial ideals as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.
956 4| hut in the wilderness, a flimsy shelter made by tying together
957 6| drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen
958 2| clouds in a serene sky or floated like waterlilies on emerald
959 7| tempest in every cloud that floats on the horizon. Yet there
960 1| port. Asiatic youths are flocking to Western colleges for
961 5| the snow-filled air swirl flocks of swans and rattling hailstones
962 2| Wangyucheng eulogised tea as "flooding his soul like a direct appeal,
963 4| from the ceiling to the floor; the guests themselves have
964 6| In the East the art of floriculture is a very ancient one, and
965 6| sympathies are with the flower-arrangements of the tea-master rather
966 2| often wonderful with its flower-like aroma, but the romance of
967 6| remember, however, that the flower-worship of the tea-masters formed
968 5| seasons, of high mountains and flowing waters, and all the memories
969 1| stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid
970 6| faded flower remorselessly flung upon a dung heap. ~Why were
971 3| watching the flag of a pagoda fluttering in the wind. One said "It
972 6| painting by Soami of wild ducks flying in the air. Shoha, another
973 4| path was to be found in the following verses: "A cluster of summer
974 4| left on the ground." "Young fool," chided the tea-master, "
975 3| They began by talking like fools and ended by making their
976 2| followed closely on the footsteps of Chinese civilisation,
977 1| sixteen shillings a pound) forbade popular consumption, and
978 1| amongst us. Commerce has forced the European tongues on
979 3| and Zen doctrines in any foreign language, though we have
980 4| of decoration, appears to foreigners almost barren. ~The first
981 3| followers and in Kutsugen, the forerunner of the Yangtse-Kiang nature-poets,
982 7| moral equilibrium, and see forerunners of the tempest in every
983 3| especially the Book of Changes, foreshadow his thought. But the great
984 6| his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour
985 4| result of profound artistic forethought, and that the details have
986 6| branch of this tree shall forfeit a finger therefor." Would
987 6| have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has
988 5| period or a school, and forgets that a single masterpiece
989 4| century, after the strict formalism of the Tokugawa rule had
990 4| state of perfection the formalities of the Tea-ceremony. The
991 2| single bowl with the profound formality of a holy sacrament. It
992 3| what it has done toward the formation of the Celestial character,
993 | formerly
994 6| vied with each other in forming new combinations. We must
995 3| vacant, like a valley; formless, like troubled waters."
996 4| conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of
997 5| at the present day has no foundation in real feeling. In this
998 4| Bodhi Dharma, which laid the foundations of the tea-ceremony. We
999 1| Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the
1000 2| crystal beads rolling in a fountain; the third boil is when
1001 1| brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight,