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1002 4| orthodox tea-room, which is four mats and a half, or ten
1003 4| suggested in the thatched roof, frailty in the slender pillars,
1004 1| Europe. It was known in France in 1636, and reached Russia
1005 4| opportunity possible for the free communion of artistic spirits.
1006 3| forth in the luxuriance of free-thought. Laotse and Soshi (Chuangtse)
1007 5| for the eye has no tongue. Freed from the fetters of matter,
1008 6| impoverished knight, who, on a freezing night, in lack of fuel for
1009 4| simplicity of ornamentation and frequent change of decorative method,
1010 4| the Imperial capitals so frequently removed from one site to
1011 4| considered fatal to the freshness of imagination. Thus, landscapes,
1012 1| garments, and often dined off a fricassee of newborn babes! Nay, we
1013 6| we live without them? It frightens on to conceive of a world
1014 3| are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse
1015 6| you? Dream on, sway and frolic while you may in the gentle
1016 5| gleams the moon upon the frosted grass. Now winter reigns,
1017 6| parasites, his horror of frosts, his anxiety when the buds
1018 2| fervent adoration of the "froth of the liquid jade." Then
1019 4| elaborate carvings of fishes and fruit? Why the display of family
1020 2| Emperors, destroyed all the fruits of Sung culture. The native
1021 6| freezing night, in lack of fuel for a fire, cuts his cherished
1022 4| original waste. In the tea-room fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched
1023 7| flowers, fain would I show the full-blown spring which abides in the
1024 4| talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from
1025 6| fly from its pursuer, the furred animal whose coat you covet
1026 1| contributing his tithe to the furtherance of a better understanding.
1027 6| celebrated Ota- wuraka, Furuka-Oribe, Koyetsu, Kobori-Enshiu,
1028 1| not wiser by the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We
1029 1| supplement the other. You have gained expansion at the cost of
1030 5| and plunges it into the gaping wound. The fire is at last
1031 7| Kohoan. All the celebrated gardens of Japan were laid out by
1032 3| Laotse, who first at the gate of the Han Pass presented
1033 7| solemn sentinels before the gates of Hades stand the grey
1034 4| It is not difficult to gather his meaning. He wished to
1035 2| second of the implements for gathering the leaves, in the third
1036 1| oppression until human endurance gave way before the heavy duties
1037 7| hitherto concealed. Tenderly he gazes on the shining blade of
1038 5| the ascendency the Taiko's generals would be better satisfied
1039 1| and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines
1040 3| the Christian Era. ~The germ of Taoist speculation may
1041 2| rhythm of things, not a gesture to obtrude on the harmony,
1042 6| the All-devouring that the Gheburs greeted in the fire. It
1043 7| the whispers of homeless ghosts. Like solemn sentinels before
1044 4| the elaborate canopy and gilded baldachinos, many-coloured
1045 2| boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices,
1046 1| of a bush. The travellers Giovanni Batista Ramusio (1559),
1047 4| statuary, and bric-a-brac gives the impression of mere vulgar
1048 6| with his court musicians to gladden the flowers with soft music.
1049 1| written about you. All the glamour of the perspective is there,
1050 2| rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a
1051 5| night, sharp like a sword gleams the moon upon the frosted
1052 1| sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos,
1053 3| and on the other to the Gnan philosophy formulated by
1054 6| worshipped Death, the relentless goddess of mercy, under many different
1055 1| The Christian missionary goes to impart, but not to receive.
1056 4| scattered over the garden gold and crimson leaves, scraps
1057 4| detail equals the utmost gorgeousness of Arabian or Moorish effort. ~
1058 1| have even transfigured the gory image of Mars. Why not consecrate
1059 6| fundamental theories which governed Tokugawa decoration. We
1060 3| and regulations for its government. In the discussions of the
1061 4| the saying "more than the Graces and less than the Muses,"
1062 1| Niuka again to repair the grand devastation; we await the
1063 7| grandson, Koho, and of his grand-nephews, Korin and Kenzan, almost
1064 1| made thereof to princes and grandees." Yet in spite of such drawbacks
1065 7| splendid creation of his grandson, Koho, and of his grand-nephews,
1066 4| beside the moss-covered granite lanterns, became uplifted
1067 5| work of art than a large grant of territory as a reward
1068 7| One privilege alone was granted to the condemned-- the honor
1069 2| moments--Nirvana always within grasp. The Taoist conception that
1070 5| the moon upon the frosted grass. Now winter reigns, and
1071 4| made by tying together the grasses that grew around,--when
1072 5| artist is safely laid in his grave. The nineteenth century,
1073 6| linger in sorrow over our graves. Sad as it is, we cannot
1074 3| These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories
1075 4| It has been said that the Greeks were great because they
1076 7| to him with a cup of the green beverage prepared by the
1077 2| tea-cup, as it lent additional greenness to the beverage, whereas
1078 5| pseudo-classic horrors that to-day greet us wherever we turn. ~Another
1079 6| All-devouring that the Gheburs greeted in the fire. It is the icy
1080 6| and appeals to us with the grim humour of a warlike age.
1081 4| the enormous beams which groaned under the weight of the
1082 1| and power. The world is groping in the shadow of egotism
1083 3| the other. Even in that grotesque apology for Taoism which
1084 1| were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. Fain would
1085 5| intense. The tea-masters guarded their treasures with religious
1086 6| carelessness of life, the guilt of the Flower-Master becomes
1087 5| moreover created in us the habit of losing sight of the individual
1088 6| popular of the No-dances, the Hachinoki, composed during the Ashikaga
1089 7| sentinels before the gates of Hades stand the grey stone lanterns.
1090 5| flocks of swans and rattling hailstones beat upon the boughs with
1091 5| smoking embers is found a half- consumed corps, within which
1092 3| were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like
1093 4| the country. In the Golden Hall of Horiuji and the Pagoda
1094 5| public. ~Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred
1095 4| divide the space into equal halves. The pillar of the tokonoma
1096 3| first at the gate of the Han Pass presented to the "Old
1097 3| in his later teachings, handing down the rules to his chief
1098 6| peony should be bathed by a handsome maiden in full costume,
1099 6| tokonoma a single lily in a hanging vase; dripping with dew,
1100 7| places. In the tokonoma hangs a kakemon,--a wonderful
1101 1| as a filthy custom. Jonas Hanway (Essay on Tea, 1756) said
1102 6| so beautiful and yet so hapless? Insects can sting, and
1103 7| vainly trying to appear happy and contented. We stagger
1104 2| the fifteenth century was harassed by internal troubles, and
1105 1| of tea-chests into Boston harbour. ~There is a subtle charm
1106 4| classic architecture, we could hardly expect the outsider to appreciate
1107 5| the wail of the cuckoo. Hark! a tiger roars,--the valley
1108 1| a polite Teaist. So much harm has been done already by
1109 6| than Hojo-Tokiyori, the Haroun-Al-Raschid of our tales, and the sacrifice
1110 5| came Peiwoh, the prince of harpists. With tender hand he caressed
1111 5| there came from the harp but harsh notes of disdain, ill-according
1112 | hast
1113 6| you would instinctively hate him, for you know a doctor
1114 1| stiff collars and tall silk hats comprised the attainment
1115 5| thought. On high, like a haughty maiden, swept a cloud bright
1116 6| visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming [all celebrated
1117 5| charge. Resolved at all hazards to rescue the precious painting,
1118 6| remorselessly flung upon a dung heap. ~Why were the flowers born
1119 3| and ended by making their hearers wise. Laotse himself, with
1120 1| chivalrous pen of a Lafcadio Hearn or that of the author of "
1121 6| one whom you know to be heartless or to be thrust into the
1122 1| for the repairer of the Heavens. He had not to search in
1123 4| more than three feet in height. This proceeding was incumbent
1124 6| butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer. If
1125 1| the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We have developed along
1126 1| opposition. Heretics like Henry Saville (1678) denounced
1127 5| conventionality, as well as our hereditary instincts, restrict the
1128 1| Tea met with opposition. Heretics like Henry Saville (1678)
1129 3| votaries of Taoism, princes and hermits alike, followed with varied
1130 5| rejoice with the hero and heroine. Chikamatsu, our Japanese
1131 3| crosses a stream in winter; hesitating as one who fears the neighbourhood;
1132 1| the brown beverage without hesitation. The afternoon tea is now
1133 1| had bushy tails somewhere hidden in your garments, and often
1134 2| Confucius said that "man hideth not." Perhaps we reveal
1135 6| out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood. ~
1136 4| of pines on some faraway hill. ~Even in the daytime the
1137 3| realm of aesthetics. Chinese historians have always spoken of Taoism
1138 3| Yangste-Kiang and Hoang- Ho are respectively the Mediterranean
1139 3| it. The Yangste-Kiang and Hoang- Ho are respectively the
1140 3| with the Aged one of the Hoang-Ho, who lived betwixt Heaven
1141 5| of the Harp? ~Once in the hoary ages in the Ravine of Lungmen
1142 6| in reality no other than Hojo-Tokiyori, the Haroun-Al-Raschid of
1143 5| soft folds lay the holy of holies. Rarely was the object exposed
1144 1| the sixteenth century the Hollanders brought the news that a
1145 7| are heard the whispers of homeless ghosts. Like solemn sentinels
1146 7| origin to the tea-master Honnami-Koyetsu, famed also as a lacquer
1147 7| granted to the condemned-- the honor of dying by his own hand. ~
1148 3| heaven, a diploma for an honourable citizenship. Hide yourself
1149 4| profusely decorated. In the Hoodo temple at Uji, dating from
1150 6| your conservatories and hopelessly long for a glimpse of their
1151 2| in my sleeves. Where is Horaisan? Let me ride on this sweet
1152 4| country. In the Golden Hall of Horiuji and the Pagoda of Yakushiji,
1153 7| cloud that floats on the horizon. Yet there is joy and beauty
1154 1| queen, the divine Niuka, horn-crowned and dragon-tailed, resplendent
1155 5| treasure uninjured by the fire. Horrible as such tales are, they
1156 6| feuds with parasites, his horror of frosts, his anxiety when
1157 3| What sacrilege!" said the horror-stricken bystander. "I wish to get
1158 5| responsible for the pseudo-classic horrors that to-day greet us wherever
1159 2| leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of
1160 5| play the palace of Lord Hosokawa, in which was preserved
1161 1| soft rustle of feminine hospitality, in the common catechism
1162 2| drowsiness during their long hours of meditation. ~By the fourth
1163 4| unscrupulous zeal of the Dutch housewife. Dripping water from a flower
1164 6| this. For a moment they hover like bejewelled clouds and
1165 6| delicate blossoms. Emperor Huensung, of the Tang Dynasty, hung
1166 4| richness of their decoration. Huge pillars of wood from two
1167 6| man of the pot is far more humane than he of the scissors.
1168 1| entered the abode of the humble. Our peasants have learned
1169 6| Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our
1170 5| something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own
1171 1| stop the continents from hurling epigrams at each other,
1172 7| like Liehtse, ride upon the hurricane itself? ~He only who has
1173 1| about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness;
1174 3| a guest; trembling, like ice that is about to melt; unassuming,
1175 3| Some of the Zen even became iconoclastic as a result of their endeavor
1176 6| greeted in the fire. It is the icy purism of the sword-soul
1177 2| state and lead to its final idealization. With Luwuh in the middle
1178 5| suffer through mistaken identity. "This," said Chikamatsu, "
1179 2| about this time that modern ideograph Cha was coined, evidently
1180 5| universe,--our particular idiosyncracies dictate the mode of our
1181 6| burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves. Our god is
1182 1| lie in the contemptuous ignoring of Eastern problems! European
1183 2| II. The Schools of Tea.~Tea
1184 3| III. Taoism and Zennism~The
1185 6| founder of the house of Ikenobo, a family as illustrious
1186 6| Formalistic schools, led by the Ikenobos, aimed at a classic idealism
1187 5| harsh notes of disdain, ill-according with the songs they fain
1188 2| lost that sublime faith in illusions which constitutes the eternal
1189 2| variations of the tea-service and illustrations of the tea-utensils. The
1190 3| can revel in a wealth of imagery impossible to find in any
1191 3| themselves rather than through images and symbolism. We find Tankawosho
1192 1| to know all that we have imagined and written about you. All
1193 4| however, the old idea became imbued with a deeper significance
1194 4| weep over the senseless imitations of European buildings which
1195 4| and the linen napkin, both immaculately white and new. However faded
1196 3| hear of the Tao, they laugh immensely. It would not be the Tao
1197 5| comradeship. The masters are immortal, for their loves and fears
1198 2| One mandarin has his name immortalised by his failure to appreciate
1199 2| me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup--ah, but
1200 3| the first Zen patriarch, imparted the secret to Ananda, who
1201 3| outward accessories only as impediments to a clear perception of
1202 1| Eastern problems! European imperialism, which does not disdain
1203 2| tea-plant, in the second of the implements for gathering the leaves,
1204 7| latter accused him of being implicated in a conspiracy to poison
1205 4| The name, Abode of Fancy, implies a structure created to meet
1206 2| The leaves were probably imported by our ambassadors to the
1207 6| no law save that the vase imposes on it. New conceptions and
1208 6| nature as its model, only imposing such modifications of form
1209 1| cockroaches. It is either impotent fanaticism or else abject
1210 6| based upon the story of an impoverished knight, who, on a freezing
1211 3| contrary one cannot help being impressed by the similarity of Southern
1212 4| and bric-a-brac gives the impression of mere vulgar display of
1213 6| It may be your fate to be imprisoned in the hair of one whom
1214 2| appreciation. The ceremony was an improvised drama whose plot was woven
1215 4| built to house a poetic impulse. It is an Abode of Vacancy
1216 6| committed during your past incarnation to warrant such punishment
1217 2| waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation. ~Like Art,
1218 4| who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and
1219 3| we find an idealism quite inconsistent with the prosaic ethical
1220 2| southern Zen sect, which incorporated so much of Taoist doctrines,
1221 3| These renderings are not incorrect, for the use of the term
1222 4| alike,--and was intended to inculcate humility. The order of precedence
1223 1| of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the
1224 4| height. This proceeding was incumbent on all guests,--high and
1225 3| the Zen, words were but an incumberance to thought; the whole sway
1226 1| duties laid on Tea. American independence dates from the throwing
1227 1| ships of the Dutch East India Company brought the first
1228 2| appreciating the beverage are indicative of the spirit of the age
1229 3| Zennism, represents the individualistic trend of the Southern Chinese
1230 1| Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace:
1231 3| humour, says, "If people of inferior intelligence hear of the
1232 6| the Semi-Formal, and the Informal. The first might be said
1233 1| but not to receive. Your information is based on the meagre translations
1234 1| past--the wise men who knew--informed us that you had bushy tails
1235 1| his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant;
1236 2| claimed it as an important ingredient of the elixir of immortality.
1237 2| favourite beverage among the inhabitants of the Yangtse-Kiang valley.
1238 4| baldachinos, many-coloured and inlaid with mirrors and mother-of-pearl,
1239 2| constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Confucius said
1240 1| coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa. Already in 1711,
1241 2| why the Western world is innocent of the older method of drinking
1242 5| figures on the board who innocently rush to their fate." ~The
1243 3| and the establishment of innumerable independent kingdoms that
1244 3| the subject-matter of the inquiry. Laotse himself spoke of
1245 2| itself through the nomadic inroad. Tea with us became more
1246 6| beauty of the blossoms, the inscription says: "Whoever cuts a single
1247 6| the Flower-Master becomes insignificant. He, at least, respects
1248 7| was sufficient ground for instant execution, and there was
1249 6| of a doctor and you would instinctively hate him, for you know a
1250 5| as well as our hereditary instincts, restrict the scope of our
1251 7| sober colors. They have instructed us in the proper spirit
1252 3| be without its quota of instruction and amusement. It will be
1253 5| musicians. For long the instrument was treasured by the Emperor
1254 1| tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests
1255 4| buildings have practically stood intact for nearly twelve centuries.
1256 3| If people of inferior intelligence hear of the Tao, they laugh
1257 5| of the great artist was intense. The tea-masters guarded
1258 6| the universe even as the intent gaze of a beautiful child
1259 3| beverage by the Taoists. Our interest in Taoism and Zennism here
1260 1| insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. Again
1261 6| placed near it which might interfere with its effect, not even
1262 4| decoration of our classical interiors was decidedly regular in
1263 6| us on account of its true intimacy with life. We should like
1264 3| founder of Taoism, is also intimately associated with the history
1265 4| of Zen and attempted to introduce the spirit of Zennism into
1266 1| the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable
1267 2| resistance of the Mongol invasion in 1281 had enabled us to
1268 7| serving food, are their inventions. They have taught us to
1269 5| the musicians who vainly invoked the Lungmen harp, he sings
1270 3| monks were given the more irksome and menial tasks. Such services
1271 4| evergreens over the regular irregularities of the stepping stones,
1272 3| thus a great masterpiece irresistably rivets your attention until
1273 1| taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealisation.
1274 6| into a noon-tea on some irritatingly hot summer day, you may
1275 4| every twenty years, of Ise Temple, the supreme shrine
1276 1| aristocrats in taste. ~The long isolation of Japan from the rest of
1277 5| enjoyment than the early Italians or the Ashikaga masters,
1278 5| before reaching the shrine itself--the silken wrapping within
1279 4| IV. The Tea-Room~To European
1280 1| liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch
1281 3| Laotse once stood before a jar of vinegar--the emblem of
1282 1| vain strive to regain the jewel of life. We need a Niuka
1283 6| hold plants, not pots, but jewelled palaces. A special attendant
1284 3| waters." To him the three jewls of life were Pity, Economy,
1285 1| the tea-equipage." Samuel Johnson draws his own portrait as "
1286 2| which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion
1287 1| drinking it as a filthy custom. Jonas Hanway (Essay on Tea, 1756)
1288 4| previously determined by Jowo--a famous tea-master of the
1289 5| pictures I liked, but as my judgement matured I praised myself
1290 6| the earliest adepts at it. Juko, the tea-master, was one
1291 7| In the tokonoma hangs a kakemon,--a wonderful writing by
1292 4| partitioned off was called the Kakoi (enclosure), a name still
1293 6| corresponding to that of the Kano-academicians. We possess records of arrangements
1294 6| flowers as was that of the Kanos in painting. With the perfecting
1295 4| of Sakyamuni attended by Kaphiapa and Ananda, the two earliest
1296 6| Koyetsu, Kobori-Enshiu, Katagiri- Sekishiu, vied with each
1297 7| in the Imperial villa of Katsura, the castles of Najoya and
1298 7| souvenir. The bowl alone he keeps. "Never again shall this
1299 7| grand-nephews, Korin and Kenzan, almost fall into the shade.
1300 3| sixteenth century B.C., kept the development of individualism
1301 5| Then Peiwoh changed the key and sang of love. The forest
1302 2| names of Tou, Tseh, Chung, Kha, and Ming, and was highly
1303 2| superiority. The Emperor Kiasung (1101-1124), who was too
1304 6| have preferred to have been killed at once when you were first
1305 7| our ceramists. The Seven Kilns of Enshiu are well known
1306 7| trusted not even their nearest kin. Rikiu was no servile courtier,
1307 4| should be of a different kind of wood from the other pillars,
1308 3| to warm himself over the kindling fire. ~A special contribution
1309 6| blood. Tell me, will this be kindness? It may be your fate to
1310 5| hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment
1311 2| dissertation on the twenty kinds of tea, among which he prizes
1312 5| a Kiri tree, a veritable king of the forest. It reared
1313 3| Confucianism. The Middle Kingdom is as vast as Europe and
1314 3| innumerable independent kingdoms that it was able to blossom
1315 2| which, the Uji district near Kioto, bears still the name of
1316 5| Ravine of Lungmen stood a Kiri tree, a veritable king of
1317 1| approach the West on our knees. Unfortunately the Western
1318 1| the past--the wise men who knew--informed us that you had
1319 6| story of an impoverished knight, who, on a freezing night,
1320 3| world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder
1321 6| monasteries [Sumadera, near Kobe]. It is a notice put up
1322 6| earth are pitiless." Said Kobodaishi: "Flow, flow, flow, flow,
1323 7| creation of his grandson, Koho, and of his grand-nephews,
1324 7| Nijo, and the monastery of Kohoan. All the celebrated gardens
1325 6| which moved the Empress Komio, one of our most renowned
1326 6| Ota- wuraka, Furuka-Oribe, Koyetsu, Kobori-Enshiu, Katagiri-
1327 3| and his followers and in Kutsugen, the forerunner of the Yangtse-Kiang
1328 3| stoppage of growth. Said Kuzugen,--"The Sages move the world."
1329 3| tea to a guest began with Kwanyin, a well-known disciple of
1330 4| and in the Nijo castle in Kyoto, we see structural beauty
1331 1| Batista Ramusio (1559), L. Almeida (1576), Maffeno (
1332 4| afforded a welcome respite from labour to the fierce warriors and
1333 1| arrange flowers, our meanest labourer to offer his salutation
1334 1| the chivalrous pen of a Lafcadio Hearn or that of the author
1335 6| suggest the vegetation of lakes and marshes, and on the
1336 1| welcomed the morning." ~Charles Lamb, a professed devotee, sounded
1337 6| Flowers, if you were in the land of the Mikado, you might
1338 4| freshness of imagination. Thus, landscapes, birds, and flowers became
1339 4| with a tea-caddy of black laquer. In placing a vase of an
1340 5| rare work of art than a large grant of territory as a
1341 1| also mentioned tea. In the last-named year ships of the Dutch
1342 4| easily built up. A more lasting style, employing brick and
1343 6| Entering a tea-room in late winter, you may see a slender
1344 1| Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai, --
1345 3| brother as a member of the Latin race differs from the Teuton.
1346 2| the Ming dynasty. ~To the latter-day Chinese tea is a delicious
1347 | Latterly
1348 3| though we have had several laudable attempts. ~Translation is
1349 2| a well-behaved monarch, lavished his treasures on the attainment
1350 2| from its crude state and lead to its final idealization.
1351 6| find them referring to the Leading Principle (Heaven), the
1352 4| roji, the garden path which leads from the machiai to the
1353 4| verdure; not a twig, not a leaf have I left on the ground." "
1354 2| drunk. O nectar! The filmy leaflet hung like scaly clouds in
1355 1| least we are willing to learn. Some of my compatriots
1356 2| must have "creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen,
1357 2| ingredients. The use of lemon slices by the Russians,
1358 4| it in the exact centre, lest it divide the space into
1359 6| convulvus. The ground had been leveled and strewn with fine pebbles
1360 4| sprinkled with water, moss and lichens are shining with a fresh
1361 2| fundamental law of art and life; Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly
1362 1| consequences to humanity lie in the contemptuous ignoring
1363 3| novices was committed the lighter duties, while to the most
1364 7| These were matters not to be lightly ignored, for until one has
1365 4| in the slender pillars, lightness in the bamboo support, apparent
1366 5| Lungmen, the dragon rode the lightning, the thundering avalanche
1367 5| master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgement matured
1368 5| matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen
1369 5| establishes in one sense a limit to our understanding; and
1370 3| terms. Definition is always limitation--the "fixed" and "unchangeless"
1371 4| even a masterpiece, and limitless indeed must be the capacity
1372 4| the bamboo dipper and the linen napkin, both immaculately
1373 6| the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious
1374 3| laughed at it." ~The Tao literally means a Path. It has been
1375 1| lacquer, painting--our very literature--all have been subject to
1376 1| Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves
1377 7| refinement as had been their lives. Seeking always to be in
1378 1| undefined. You have been loaded with virtues too refined
1379 1| rapidity. The coffee-houses of London in the early half of the
1380 3| of Laotse, surnamed the Long-Eared. The archaic records of
1381 6| you for two or more weeks longer than would have been possible
1382 1| punctually served up and to be looked upon as a part of the tea-equipage."
1383 5| in one play the palace of Lord Hosokawa, in which was preserved
1384 1| said that men seemed to lose their stature and comeliness,
1385 6| arrangement by a tea-master loses its significance if removed
1386 6| man. It may even be your lot to be confined in some narrow
1387 2| of such a beverage that Lotung, a Tang poet, wrote: "The
1388 1| Thus began the dualism of love--two souls rolling through
1389 6| passing fair. She may say how lovely you are while her fingers
1390 6| is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at
1391 6| the leaves attain their lustre. In the East the art of
1392 3| to blossom forth in the luxuriance of free-thought. Laotse
1393 6| sentimental. Let us be less luxurious but more magnificent. Said
1394 6| stagnant water to quench the maddening thirst that warns of ebbing
1395 1| 1559), L. Almeida (1576), Maffeno (1588), Tareira (1610),
1396 6| less luxurious but more magnificent. Said Laotse: "Heaven and
1397 3| Taoism and Zennism here lies mainly in those ideas regarding
1398 7| serenity of mind should be maintained, and conversation should
1399 5| cater to the taste of the majority. Verily, Rikiu was one in
1400 4| delicate than that of the makers of lacquer cabinets. ~The
1401 1| commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields. Much comment
1402 2| under the alien rule of the Manchus in the seventeenth century.
1403 2| that of his disciples. One mandarin has his name immortalised
1404 6| a higher realisation of manhood. ~Why not destroy flowers
1405 7| of snow-covered hills." ~Manifold indeed have been the contributions
1406 2| tea through incompetent manipulation. ~Like Art, Tea has its
1407 4| Vikramadytia welcomes the Saint Manjushiri and eighty-four thousand
1408 2| the seventeenth century. Manners and customs changed to leave
1409 4| costly than an ordinary mansion, for the selection of its
1410 4| arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western
1411 3| written in the Chinese school manual concerning the origin of
1412 7| to their inspiration, the manufacture of the utensils used in
1413 4| and gilded baldachinos, many-coloured and inlaid with mirrors
1414 7| have all been subject. The many-sided Kobori-Enshiu has left notable
1415 1| duties on salt and tea. Marco Polo records the deposition
1416 2| Leaf-tea which was steeped, mark the distinct emotional impulses
1417 3| differentiation of idiosyncrasies marked by the two great river systems
1418 4| provided for each couple that married. It is on account of such
1419 1| transfigured the gory image of Mars. Why not consecrate ourselves
1420 6| vegetation of lakes and marshes, and on the wall above he
1421 4| beholds in modern Japan. We marvel why, among the most progressive
1422 3| behind? Yet the trusts thrive marvelously, for the prices are absurdly
1423 5| not the beautiful. To the masses, contemplation of illustrated
1424 4| when the more stable and massive wooden construction of China
1425 6| the host. Drawings from masterpieces are made and published for
1426 4| and its demands for the mastery of spirit over matter, recognized
1427 7| carefully folds it upon the mat, thereby disclosing the
1428 6| asking the birds to sing and mate cooped up in cages? Who
1429 1| in their protests against materialism, have, to a certain extent,
1430 6| they were talking to their mates about the flowers? Surely
1431 3| contemporary thinkers, the mathemeticians, writers on law and war,
1432 4| tea-room, which is four mats and a half, or ten feet
1433 3| finger to taste the brew. The matter-of-fact Confucius found it sour,
1434 7| personality. These were matters not to be lightly ignored,
1435 5| liked, but as my judgement matured I praised myself for liking
1436 6| flower! Standing in the meadows as thou art, I offer thee
1437 1| information is based on the meagre translations of our immense
1438 1| twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of
1439 4| original ideographs for Sukiya mean the Abode of Fancy. Latterly
1440 1| to arrange flowers, our meanest labourer to offer his salutation
1441 4| sects inasmuch as it is meant only to be a dwelling place
1442 | Meanwhile
1443 5| more than any number of the mediocre products of a given period
1444 6| worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have
1445 3| Ho are respectively the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Even to-day,
1446 6| can sting, and even the meekest of beasts will fight when
1447 5| in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends
1448 3| ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday
1449 4| sweet unconsciousness of a mellow spiritual light, and yearning
1450 4| unobtrusive colors. The mellowness of age is over all, everything
1451 3| like ice that is about to melt; unassuming, like a piece
1452 2| description of the twenty-four members of the tea-equipage, beginning
1453 5| daimyo, has left to us these memorable words: "Approach a great
1454 3| given the more irksome and menial tasks. Such services formed
1455 4| discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
1456 7| seems almost superfluous to mention the immense services they
1457 2| tutelary god of the Chinese tea merchants. ~The "Chaking" consists
1458 6| the relentless goddess of mercy, under many different names.
1459 4| early tea-room consisted merely of a portion of the ordinary
1460 3| own brightness in order to merge himself into the obscurity
1461 1| would be further food for merriment if you were to know all
1462 5| attitude for receiving the message, as the artist must know
1463 4| dusting. A piece of antique metal work must not be attacked
1464 3| illustrates by his favourite metaphor of the Vacuum. He claimed
1465 1| of the lotus, if not on mice and cockroaches. It is either
1466 6| homes and ask them to bloom mid strange surroundings? Is
1467 3| are the wind, or dwell in mid-air with the Aged one of the
1468 1| evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the
1469 4| the Muses," an anteroom (midsuya) where the tea utensils
1470 6| human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven. ~Much may be
1471 4| stone, would have rendered migrations impracticable, as indeed
1472 6| were in the land of the Mikado, you might some time meet
1473 2| salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions!
1474 2| powder in a small stone mill, and the preparation was
1475 5| struck deep into the earth, mingling their bronzed coils with
1476 1| deposition of a Chinese minister of finance in 1285 for his
1477 2| the leaves on their high ministers as a reward for eminent
1478 2| the time was urging one to mirror the Universal in the Particular.
1479 4| many-coloured and inlaid with mirrors and mother-of-pearl, as
1480 1| you never practiced. ~Such misconceptions are fast vanishing amongst
1481 7| constantly in a state of misery while vainly trying to appear
1482 7| polluted by the lips of misfortune, be used by man." He speaks,
1483 | miss
1484 1| the East. The Christian missionary goes to impart, but not
1485 2| mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine,
1486 5| brethren suffer through mistaken identity. "This," said Chikamatsu, "
1487 1| done already by the mutual misunderstanding of the New World and the
1488 6| accepted nature as its model, only imposing such modifications
1489 2| and the Steeped Tea. We moderns belong to the last school.
1490 3| were Pity, Economy, and Modesty. ~If now we turn our attention
1491 6| model, only imposing such modifications of form as conduced to the
1492 6| while her fingers are still moist with your blood. Tell me,
1493 2| poet, wrote: "The first cup moistens my lips and throat, the
1494 7| die beautifully. The last moments of the great tea-masters
1495 2| law itself. Aeons were but moments--Nirvana always within grasp.
1496 6| ourselves. Our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate
1497 2| the Thibetans and various Mongolian tribes, who make a curious
1498 4| self-regard is apt to become monotonous. ~In the tea-room the fear
1499 4| break any suggestion of monotony in the room. ~Here again
1500 6| buries it in the ground. Monuments are sometimes erected to
1501 4| gorgeousness of Arabian or Moorish effort. ~The simplicity