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2002 4| until all the guests have seated themselves and quiet reigns
2003 4| noiselessly and take their seats, first making obeisance
2004 5| treasures with religious secrecy, and it was often necessary
2005 3| Indian idealism. Whatever sectarian pride may assert to the
2006 3| be reached, and the Zen sectarians affirm that Sakyamuni laid
2007 4| those of other Buddhist sects inasmuch as it is meant
2008 3| possibilites with the universe. The seeker for perfection must discover
2009 | seeming
2010 5| the burning building and seizes the kakemono, only to find
2011 6| at random, but carefully select each branch or spray with
2012 6| respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful
2013 3| allusions to the importance of self-concentration and the need of properly
2014 3| because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse a conscience because
2015 3| Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence, owes its name to a passage
2016 4| meditation,--the passage into self-illumination. The roji was intended to
2017 7| the day destined for his self-immolation, Rikiu invited his chief
2018 4| spite of our vanity even self-regard is apt to become monotonous. ~
2019 6| inclined to suspect the selfishness of man. Why take the plants
2020 6| aspects, the Formal, the Semi-Formal, and the Informal. The first
2021 6| his pupils, as was also Senno, the founder of the house
2022 4| tea-room was the creation of Senno-Soyeki, commonly known by his later
2023 4| purity. The nature of the sensations to be aroused in passing
2024 4| We can but weep over the senseless imitations of European buildings
2025 1| been said that we are less sensible to pain and wounds on account
2026 6| However, let us not be too sentimental. Let us be less luxurious
2027 1| with the torch of our own sentiments. Perhaps I betray my own
2028 7| homeless ghosts. Like solemn sentinels before the gates of Hades
2029 2| favorite vintage marks the separate idiosyncrasies of different
2030 5| necessary to open a whole series of boxes, one within another,
2031 1| is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal
2032 3| ourselves. How can one be serious with the world when the
2033 6| brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time
2034 7| nearest kin. Rikiu was no servile courtier, and had often
2035 6| former is art in its proper setting and appeals to us on account
2036 2| poured into the kettle to settle the tea and revive the "
2037 7| parts of our ceramists. The Seven Kilns of Enshiu are well
2038 2| realms of the immortals. The seventh cup--ah, but I could take
2039 3| means a Path. It has been severally translated as the Way, the
2040 5| but passing, trailed long shadows on the ground, black like
2041 4| soul still lingering amid shadowy dreams of the past, yet
2042 5| for this? It is indeed a shame that despite all our rhapsodies
2043 1| portrait as "a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty
2044 5| autumn; in the desert night, sharp like a sword gleams the
2045 1| modern humanity is indeed shattered in the Cyclopean struggle
2046 6| above the brute. Scratch the sheepskin and the wolf within us will
2047 4| the wilderness, a flimsy shelter made by tying together the
2048 6| which formed the Ukiyoe and Shijo schools of painting. ~It
2049 1| about fifteen or sixteen shillings a pound) forbade popular
2050 3| active power during the Shin dynasty, that epoch of Chinese
2051 4| custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that
2052 6| sword-soul before which Shinto-Japan prostrates herself even
2053 1| In the last-named year ships of the Dutch East India
2054 1| against the solar vault and shivered the blue dome of jade into
2055 4| contemplating, with a secret shock to our digestion, the representation
2056 2| under the patronage of the Shogun, Ashikaga-Voshinasa, the
2057 6| ducks flying in the air. Shoha, another tea-master, combined
2058 2| 729 we read of the Emperor Shomu giving tea to one hundred
2059 4| stepped into the garden, shook a tree and scattered over
2060 6| flower-masters of this period, showing, as they would, the fundamental
2061 7| love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility.
2062 2| like a baby's arm and is shredded into powder between pieces
2063 6| before the destroyer. If they shriek in their death agony their
2064 7| garden path the trees seem to shudder, and in the rustling of
2065 1| of Heaven, triumphed over Shuhyung, the demon of darkness and
2066 6| bring to the bedside of the sick, what a light of bliss to
2067 3| best be only the reverse side of a brocade,--all the threads
2068 3| the Zen monastery was very significant of this point of view. To
2069 4| machiai to the tea-room, signified the first stage of meditation,--
2070 3| Sanscrit word Dhyana, which signifies meditation. It claims that
2071 4| and the term Sukiya may signify the Abode of Vacancy or
2072 1| of stiff collars and tall silk hats comprised the attainment
2073 5| reaching the shrine itself--the silken wrapping within whose soft
2074 5| coils with those of the silver dragon that slept beneath.
2075 3| help being impressed by the similarity of Southern Zen to the teachings
2076 1| consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa. Already
2077 6| Arrangement seems to be simultaneous with that of Teaism in the
2078 7| all earthly things. The singing kettle, as it boils over
2079 1| Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow
2080 5| secret of his victory. "Sire," he replied, "others have
2081 4| frequently removed from one site to another in ancient days.
2082 3| would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate
2083 1| start (about fifteen or sixteen shillings a pound) forbade
2084 3| to prefer black and white sketches to the elaborately coloured
2085 6| glimpse of their own Southern skies? ~The ideal lover of flowers
2086 4| for the low eaves of the slanting roof admit but few of the
2087 5| only of the picture, he slashes open his body with his sword,
2088 1| began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields.
2089 3| derived from the days of slavery? ~The virility of the idea
2090 4| into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions
2091 1| average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in
2092 5| his sword, wraps his torn sleeve about the Sesson and plunges
2093 2| cool wind that rises in my sleeves. Where is Horaisan? Let
2094 2| ingredients. The use of lemon slices by the Russians, who learned
2095 2| The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration,--all the wrong
2096 1| Western humourists were not slow to mingle the fragrance
2097 6| anxiety when the buds come slowly, his rapture when the leaves
2098 4| unimpressive in appearance. It is smaller than the smallest of Japanese
2099 5| extinguished. Among the smoking embers is found a half-
2100 6| not be made use of when snow lay in the garden. "Noisy"
2101 7| abides in the toiling buds of snow-covered hills." ~Manifold indeed
2102 5| reigns, and through the snow-filled air swirl flocks of swans
2103 1| derided as ignorance, Chinese sobriety as stupidity, Japanese patriotism
2104 1| the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially
2105 5| soothe an unruly horse, and softly touched the chords. He sang
2106 6| of their presence. What solace do they not bring to the
2107 1| amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea
2108 1| struck his head against the solar vault and shivered the blue
2109 1| of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice;
2110 5| offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack
2111 7| of homeless ghosts. Like solemn sentinels before the gates
2112 6| storm and, in their infinite solicitude for all living things, placed
2113 3| white, or because he was solid, nor the Conversationalists
2114 6| a poem on the Beauty of Solitude by the Sea with a bronze
2115 6| foolishness of life. ~A solo of flowers is interesting,
2116 5| appealed to him. It was a play somewhat resembling the Comedy of
2117 | somewhere
2118 6| been recorded in story and song. With the development of
2119 5| ill-according with the songs they fain would sing. The
2120 5| harp as one might seek to soothe an unruly horse, and softly
2121 1| the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.
2122 6| it is they who linger in sorrow over our graves. Sad as
2123 5| beholder in a thousand." Sorrowfully Enshiu replied: "This only
2124 2| aftertaste of a good counsel." Sotumpa wrote of the strength of
2125 2| tone of the room, not a sound to mar the rhythm of things,
2126 1| Lamb, a professed devotee, sounded the true note of Teaism
2127 7| boils over the brazier, sounds like some cicada pouring
2128 3| matter-of-fact Confucius found it sour, the Buddha called it bitter,
2129 1| after the year 879 the main sources of revenue in Canton were
2130 2| in the blue glaze of the south, and the white glaze of
2131 3| Soshi (Chuangtse) were both Southerners and the greatest exponents
2132 7| the assembled company as a souvenir. The bowl alone he keeps. "
2133 6| of our most renowned Nara sovereigns, as she sang: "If I pluck
2134 3| exclaimed Soshi. His friend spake to him thus: "You are not
2135 6| and proportions have been specially worked out with a view to
2136 5| collector is anxious to acquire specimens to illustrate a period or
2137 1| would have been spared the spectacle of sanguinary warfare if
2138 1| manner recommend these my speculations to all well-regulated families
2139 3| should not even ignore those speculators on Reality who doubted whether
2140 3| Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity
2141 2| ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with
2142 1| abject voluptuousness. Indian spirituality has been derided as ignorance,
2143 7| potter. Beside his works, the splendid creation of his grandson,
2144 2| a delicate whisk made of split bamboo. The new process
2145 2| things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false
2146 4| pictured victims of chase and sport, the elaborate carvings
2147 6| of desire. From our ashes springs the phoenix of celestial
2148 1| tragedy, runs riot in the springtide of emancipated emotions,
2149 6| was who went off in the springtime with his court musicians
2150 4| lanterns and the trees are well sprinkled with water, moss and lichens
2151 4| and a half, or ten feet square, is determined by a passage
2152 4| they became when the more stable and massive wooden construction
2153 7| happy and contented. We stagger in the attempt to keep our
2154 6| narrow vessel with only stagnant water to quench the maddening
2155 7| their daily life by the high standard of refinement which obtained
2156 3| Sages move the world." Our standards of morality are begotten
2157 3| art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth
2158 4| his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back.
2159 1| of tea. Its cost at the start (about fifteen or sixteen
2160 6| represent flowers in the stately costume of the ballroom,
2161 1| said to be found in the statement of an Arabian traveller,
2162 4| the fierce warriors and statesmen engaged in the unification
2163 4| vast array of pictures, statuary, and bric-a-brac gives the
2164 1| men seemed to lose their stature and comeliness, women their
2165 1| was to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out
2166 2| extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made
2167 5| clashing steel and trampling steeds. And in the harp arose the
2168 5| sang of war, of clashing steel and trampling steeds. And
2169 1| of wits like Addison and Steele, who beguiled themselves
2170 2| classics. Tea is now taken by steeping the leaves in hot water
2171 5| great wizard might from the stem of society shape a mighty
2172 6| apt to see only the flower stems, heads as it were, without
2173 4| swept." Saying this, Rikiu stepped into the garden, shook a
2174 4| regular irregularities of the stepping stones, beneath which lay
2175 4| nothing more to be done. The steps have been washed for the
2176 1| that the acquisition of stiff collars and tall silk hats
2177 1| personal drama. Again we stigmatise the untamed aesthete who,
2178 6| so hapless? Insects can sting, and even the meekest of
2179 4| irregularities of the stepping stones, beneath which lay dried
2180 3| but terms expressive of a stoppage of growth. Said Kuzugen,--"
2181 6| of waning autumn. ~Flower stories are endless. We shall recount
2182 6| the flowers strewn by the storm and, in their infinite solicitude
2183 6| and ask them to bloom mid strange surroundings? Is it not
2184 4| other than a mere cottage--a straw hut, as we call it. The
2185 2| fatigue, delighting the soul, strengthening the will, and repairing
2186 4| seventeenth century, after the strict formalism of the Tokugawa
2187 5| only objects which fell strictly within the measure of their
2188 1| sea of ferment, in vain strive to regain the jewel of life.
2189 4| shall recognize a constant striving after symmetry. The decoration
2190 5| response to their utmost strivings there came from the harp
2191 4| architecture, but also contrasts strongly with the classical architecture
2192 7| beauty. Thus the tea-master strove to be something more than
2193 4| castle in Kyoto, we see structural beauty sacrificed to a wealth
2194 5| to our own possibilities. Struggling artists, weary souls lingering
2195 6| be something enormous; if strung together they might garland
2196 6| as it were, without body, stuck promiscuously into a vase. ~
2197 1| ignorance, Chinese sobriety as stupidity, Japanese patriotism as
2198 4| repetitions of obsolete styles. Perhaps we are passing
2199 4| the light in the room is subdued, for the low eaves of the
2200 3| differs according to the subject-matter of the inquiry. Laotse himself
2201 3| as the Great Transition. Subjectively it is the Mood of the Universe.
2202 4| flowers became the favorite subjects for depiction rather than
2203 2| disenchanted. He has lost that sublime faith in illusions which
2204 5| author. Several of his pupils submitted plays for his approval,
2205 6| Principle (Heaven), the Subordinate Principle (Earth), the Reconciling
2206 6| art in the tea-room, was subordinated to the total scheme of decoration.
2207 3| capacity for dominating subsequent movements. Taoism was an
2208 4| the various tea-masters substituted various Chinese characters
2209 3| threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. But,
2210 2| tea-gardens are heard of in succeeding centuries, as well as the
2211 3| position was the secret of success in the mundane drama. We
2212 2| which he carried home were successfully planted in three places,
2213 3| in turn passed it on to successive patriarchs until it reached
2214 4| instituted by the Zen monks of successively drinking tea out of a bowl
2215 3| Taoism, like its legitimate successor Zennism, represents the
2216 6| full growth. Rikiu and his successors, the celebrated Ota- wuraka,
2217 2| century. ~Unfortunately the sudden outburst of the Mongol tribes
2218 5| painting of Dharuma by Sesson, suddenly takes fire through the negligence
2219 7| Hideyoshi suspicion was sufficient ground for instant execution,
2220 1| catechism about cream and sugar, we know that the Worship
2221 6| in a flat receptacle to suggest the vegetation of lakes
2222 4| tea-room fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched roof, frailty
2223 1| you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal.
2224 4| Abode of the Unsymmetrical" suggests another phase of our decorative
2225 4| tea-room should be built to suit some individual taste is
2226 4| earthquakes, and was well suited to the climatic conditions
2227 6| fine pebbles and sand. With sullen anger the despot entered
2228 6| the Japanese monasteries [Sumadera, near Kobe]. It is a notice
2229 2| tea-drinking, a historical summary of illustrious tea-drinkers,
2230 4| the supreme shrine of the Sun-Goddess, is an example of one of
2231 6| sing of the dews and the sunbeams, are you aware of the fearful
2232 2| quality. ~The tea-ideal of the Sungs differed from the Tangs
2233 6| concern about water and sunshine, his feuds with parasites,
2234 7| lacquer it seems almost superfluous to mention the immense services
2235 2| were held to decide their superiority. The Emperor Kiasung (1101-
2236 4| the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling
2237 1| reason why one should not supplement the other. You have gained
2238 4| lightness in the bamboo support, apparent carelessness in
2239 4| thirty to forty feet high, supported, by a complicated network
2240 6| mates about the flowers? Surely with mankind the appreciation
2241 2| eye of fishes swim on the surface; the second boil is when
2242 2| boil is when the billows surge wildly in the kettle. The
2243 3| before the advent of Laotse, surnamed the Long-Eared. The archaic
2244 6| blossoms do, as they freely surrender themselves to the winds.
2245 2| caravansaries, points to the survival of the ancient method. ~
2246 7| tea-master. With Hideyoshi suspicion was sufficient ground for
2247 4| determined by a passage in the Sutra of Vikramadytia. In that
2248 5| forest swayed like an ardent swain deep lost in thought. On
2249 5| snow-filled air swirl flocks of swans and rattling hailstones
2250 5| sang of love. The forest swayed like an ardent swain deep
2251 4| among the rocks, a rainstorm sweeping through a bamboo forest,
2252 2| bubbles like the eye of fishes swim on the surface; the second
2253 5| through the snow-filled air swirl flocks of swans and rattling
2254 6| is the icy purism of the sword-soul before which Shinto-Japan
2255 3| the dragon, the beloved symbol of the Taoists. It folds
2256 2| their predecessors tried to symbolise. To the Neo-Confucian mind
2257 4| purposefully avoided the symmetrical as expressing not only completion,
2258 4| where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere.
2259 5| appreciation. The masterpiece is a symphony played upon our finest feelings.
2260 2| Confucianism were seeking mutual synthesis. The pantheistic symbolism
2261 2| tribes, who make a curious syrup of these ingredients. The
2262 3| never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes,
2263 3| marked by the two great river systems which traverse it. The Yangste-Kiang
2264 6| with soft music. A quaint tablet, which tradition ascribes
2265 4| recent acquirement being tabooed save only the one note of
2266 7| friendship between Rikiu and the Taiko- Hideyoshi, and high the
2267 4| under the patronage of Taiko-Hideyoshi, instituted and brought
2268 1| informed us that you had bushy tails somewhere hidden in your
2269 2| befriended by the Emperor Taisung (763-779), and his fame
2270 4| of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction
2271 1| acquisition of stiff collars and tall silk hats comprised the
2272 5| stubborn spirit should be tamed but by the greatest of musicians.
2273 5| heard the Taoist tale of the Taming of the Harp? ~Once in the
2274 2| Sungs differed from the Tangs even as their notion of
2275 3| the angry retort, to which Tanka replied, "If I do not, this
2276 3| images and symbolism. We find Tankawosho breaking up a wooden statue
2277 6| their native haunts, like Taoyuenming [all celebrated Chinese
2278 1| 1576), Maffeno (1588), Tareira (1610), also mentioned tea.
2279 2| like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the
2280 4| when Shoan had finished his task, and bade him try again.
2281 3| more irksome and menial tasks. Such services formed a
2282 3| allegory of the Three Vinegar Tasters explains admirably the trend
2283 1| became a necessity of life--a taxable matter. We are reminded
2284 1| Tcha, and by other nations Tay, alias Tee." ~Like all good
2285 1| called by the Chineans Tcha, and by other nations Tay,
2286 4| not be associated with a tea-caddy of black laquer. In placing
2287 1| dates from the throwing of tea-chests into Boston harbour. ~There
2288 2| historical summary of illustrious tea-drinkers, the famous tea plantations
2289 2| led to some change in the tea-equippage of Luwuh, as well as in
2290 2| planted them in Yeisan. Many tea-gardens are heard of in succeeding
2291 4| screens for the purpose of the tea-gathering. The portion partitioned
2292 7| Rikiu then removes his tea-gown and carefully folds it upon
2293 1| century became, in fact, tea-houses, the resort of wits like
2294 1| in this sense be called tea-philosophers,--Thackeray, for instance,
2295 1| arbitrary augmentation of the tea-taxes. It was at the period of
2296 2| and illustrations of the tea-utensils. The last is unfortunately
2297 5| a single masterpiece can teach us more than any number
2298 3| Sancharacharya. The first teaching of Zen as we know it at
2299 1| I am not to be a polite Teaist. So much harm has been done
2300 6| Tell me, gentle flowers, teardrops of the stars, standing in
2301 2| its place as the tea of teas. ~It is in the Japanese
2302 1| other nations Tay, alias Tee." ~Like all good things
2303 6| within us will soon show his teeth. It has been said that a
2304 2| heat, its own method of telling a story. The truly beautiful
2305 3| to reality at death. He tempers his own brightness in order
2306 4| what may be placed there temporarily to satisfy some aesthetic
2307 4| recognized the house only as a temporary refuge for the body. The
2308 6| weary spirits? Their serene tenderness restores to us our waning
2309 4| at Uji, dating from the tenth century, we can still see
2310 2| to borrow the much-abused terminology of art-classification, we
2311 5| art than a large grant of territory as a reward of victory.
2312 3| Latin race differs from the Teuton. In ancient days, when communication
2313 7| Japanese pottery. many of our textile fabrics bear the names of
2314 1| called tea-philosophers,--Thackeray, for instance, and of course,
2315 4| fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched roof, frailty in the slender
2316 6| tree shall forfeit a finger therefor." Would that such laws could
2317 6| principles and schools resulting therefrom. A writer in the middle
2318 | therein
2319 | thereof
2320 2| the present day among the Thibetans and various Mongolian tribes,
2321 1| against you: we used to think you the most impracticable
2322 3| influence on contemporary thinkers, the mathemeticians, writers
2323 5| exit cut off by the flames. Thinking only of the picture, he
2324 6| impossible positions which he thinks it proper that you should
2325 2| the Mongol tribes in the thirteenth century which resulted in
2326 2| sweet breeze and waft away thither." ~The remaining chapters
2327 1| at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus humour itself,--
2328 3| side of a brocade,--all the threads are there, but not the subtlety
2329 5| awakened, we vibrate and thrill in response to its call.
2330 3| remains behind? Yet the trusts thrive marvelously, for the prices
2331 2| cup moistens my lips and throat, the second cup breaks my
2332 6| hand will close around your throats. You will be wrenched, torn
2333 1| independence dates from the throwing of tea-chests into Boston
2334 6| Europe and America, to be thrown away on the morrow, must
2335 5| rode the lightning, the thundering avalanche crashed through
2336 | thy
2337 3| cheap, --a prayer for a ticket to heaven, a diploma for
2338 5| wail of the cuckoo. Hark! a tiger roars,--the valley answers
2339 4| under the weight of the tile-covered roofs. The material and
2340 6| have told them to depart till man becomes more human.
2341 4| Everything is sober in tint from the ceiling to the
2342 4| beyond;/Flowers are not,/Nor tinted leaves./On the sea beach/
2343 6| plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept
2344 1| darkness and earth. The Titan, in his death agony, struck
2345 1| apologise for contributing his tithe to the furtherance of a
2346 2| no rules for producing a Titian or a Sesson. Each preparation
2347 7| spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow-covered hills." ~
2348 6| fails to draw tears from a Tokio audience even to-day. ~Great
2349 2| a colour to disturb the tone of the room, not a sound
2350 5| delight, for the eye has no tongue. Freed from the fetters
2351 1| has forced the European tongues on many an Eastern port.
2352 2| the tea masters of Sung took to the powdered tea, they
2353 1| Oriental darkness with the torch of our own sentiments.
2354 1| the West, like two dragons tossed in a sea of ferment, in
2355 3| parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that
2356 2| new varieties, and regular tournaments were held to decide their
2357 | towards
2358 2| traditions of the universe. He toys with Nature, but does not
2359 1| regardless of the mundane tragedy, runs riot in the springtide
2360 7| forth forever as the acme of tragic grandeur. ~Long had been
2361 5| bright and fair; but passing, trailed long shadows on the ground,
2362 5| antiquity is one of the best traits in the human character,
2363 5| war, of clashing steel and trampling steeds. And in the harp
2364 6| garland to his maiden thereby transcended the brute. He became human
2365 3| to Confucianism. To the transcendental insight of the Zen, words
2366 5| of meeting, the art lover transcends himself. At once he is and
2367 1| freely; and we have even transfigured the gory image of Mars.
2368 3| be spoken of as the Great Transition. Subjectively it is the
2369 3| Path. It has been severally translated as the Way, the Absolute,
2370 3| several laudable attempts. ~Translation is always a treason, and
2371 1| information is based on the meagre translations of our immense literature,
2372 1| statement of an Arabian traveller, that after the year 879
2373 3| great river systems which traverse it. The Yangste-Kiang and
2374 1| the delicate clatter of trays and saucers, in the soft
2375 7| It was an age rife with treachery, and men trusted not even
2376 3| Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes,
2377 5| within which reposes the treasure uninjured by the fire. Horrible
2378 5| long the instrument was treasured by the Emperor of China,
2379 2| chapters of the "Chaking" treat of the vulgarity of the
2380 6| appalling than the way they are treated by Eastern Flower Masters.
2381 6| much on the importance of treating a flower in its three different
2382 6| been possible without his treatment. Would you not have preferred
2383 1| made it "regalia for high treatments and entertainments, presents
2384 2| the first chapter Luwuh treats of the nature of the tea-plant,
2385 4| has recognised and paid tribute to the remarkable perfection
2386 3| Confucians or the Buddhists, tries to find beauty in our world
2387 4| Buddhism with its worship of a trinity, were in no way opposed
2388 2| tea-equipage, beginning with the tripod brazier and ending with
2389 1| Emperor, the Sun of Heaven, triumphed over Shuhyung, the demon
2390 4| tea-room itself. One who has trodden this garden path cannot
2391 3| a valley; formless, like troubled waters." To him the three
2392 3| remains behind? Yet the trusts thrive marvelously, for
2393 2| the various names of Tou, Tseh, Chung, Kha, and Ming, and
2394 6| paintings of Sansetsu and Tsunenobu. The Naturalesque school,
2395 7| our own existence on this tumultuous sea of foolish troubles
2396 3| weeding the garden, paring a turnip, or serving tea. The whole
2397 2| since been worshipped as the tutelary god of the Chinese tea merchants. ~
2398 4| stood intact for nearly twelve centuries. The interior
2399 1| understanding. The beginning of the twentieth century would have been
2400 3| reached Bodhi-Dharma, the twenty-eighth. Bodhi-Dharma came to Northern
2401 2| enumeration and description of the twenty-four members of the tea-equipage,
2402 4| with a fresh verdure; not a twig, not a leaf have I left
2403 5| Comedy of Errors, in which twin brethren suffer through
2404 6| He would cut, bend, and twist you into those impossible
2405 4| a flimsy shelter made by tying together the grasses that
2406 6| impulses which formed the Ukiyoe and Shijo schools of painting. ~
2407 3| ice that is about to melt; unassuming, like a piece of wood not
2408 3| Chinese Zen. There is much uncertainty about the history of these
2409 3| limitation--the "fixed" and "unchangeless" are but terms expressive
2410 5| appealed to him, whereas I unconsciously cater to the taste of the
2411 1| resentment of the new and undefined. You have been loaded with
2412 3| conventions. Taoism cannot be understood without some knowledge of
2413 4| can consecrate himself to undisturbed adoration of the beautiful.
2414 1| the Western attitude is unfavourable to the understanding of
2415 4| purposely leaving some thing unfinished for the play of the imagination
2416 2| dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of
2417 6| silence, can we image the unfolding of a virgin soul? The primeval
2418 3| the Taoists. It folds and unfolds as do the clouds. The Tao
2419 4| completion, but repetition. Uniformity of design was considered
2420 4| tea-room. The tea-room is unimpressive in appearance. It is smaller
2421 5| which reposes the treasure uninjured by the fire. Horrible as
2422 5| more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art.
2423 3| everyone would preserve the unities. To keep the proportion
2424 | unlike
2425 4| carefully chosen garments of unobtrusive colors. The mellowness of
2426 4| there may have been some unrealized sanitary reason for this
2427 5| able to enjoy many hitherto unrecognised expressions of beauty. But,
2428 1| literature, if not on the unreliable anecdotes of passing travellers.
2429 5| might seek to soothe an unruly horse, and softly touched
2430 3| suggestion. In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a
2431 5| fact that they have passed unscathed through centuries of criticism
2432 4| not be attacked with the unscrupulous zeal of the Dutch housewife.
2433 5| unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. The master calls forth
2434 5| to mind. We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen.
2435 1| Again we stigmatise the untamed aesthete who, regardless
2436 4| granite lanterns, became uplifted above ordinary thoughts.
2437 2| symbolism of the time was urging one to mirror the Universal
2438 7| of life. Not only in the usages of polite society, but also
2439 | using
2440 1| practiced for the sake of utility. The East and the West,
2441 5| with bated breath its least utterance. An eminent Sung critic
2442 3| for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began
2443 5| V. Art Appreciation~Have you
2444 3| of such tales, which are valuable, however, as confirming
2445 5| be foolish indeed if we valued their achievement simply
2446 2| plantations of China, the possible variations of the tea-service and illustrations
2447 3| hermits alike, followed with varied and interesting results
2448 2| other in discovering new varieties, and regular tournaments
2449 1| his head against the solar vault and shivered the blue dome
2450 6| receptacle to suggest the vegetation of lakes and marshes, and
2451 4| are shining with a fresh verdure; not a twig, not a leaf
2452 5| the taste of the majority. Verily, Rikiu was one in a thousand
2453 5| Lungmen stood a Kiri tree, a veritable king of the forest. It reared
2454 3| of Confucianism and vice versa. ~We have said that the
2455 7| dagger, and in exquisite verse thus addresses it: ~"Welcome
2456 4| be found in the following verses: "A cluster of summer trees,/
2457 6| living things, placed them in vessels of water. It is said that
2458 4| truly a sanctuary from the vexations of the outer world. There
2459 6| VI. Flowers~In the trembling
2460 5| our being are awakened, we vibrate and thrill in response to
2461 3| knowledge of Confucianism and vice versa. ~We have said that
2462 2| constitutes the eternal youth and vigour of the poets and ancients.
2463 7| VII. Tea-Masters~In religion
2464 7| his genius in the Imperial villa of Katsura, the castles
2465 3| once stood before a jar of vinegar--the emblem of life--and
2466 2| the difference in favorite vintage marks the separate idiosyncrasies
2467 6| image the unfolding of a virgin soul? The primeval man in
2468 6| lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts,
2469 5| being awed by the immense vista of thought presented to
2470 6| vinegar, alum, and sometimes, vitriol. Boiling water would be
2471 5| Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye
2472 5| Anon were heard the dreamy voices of summer with its myriad
2473 6| on the subject is quite voluminous. When the flower fades,
2474 1| fanaticism or else abject voluptuousness. Indian spirituality has
2475 2| on this sweet breeze and waft away thither." ~The remaining
2476 7| wave of rare incense is wafted from the tea-room; it is
2477 5| gentle pattering of rain, the wail of the cuckoo. Hark! a tiger
2478 6| the tea-room, but a sight waited him there which completely
2479 6| and marshes, and on the wall above he hung a painting
2480 6| in order to entertain a wandering friar. The friar is in reality
2481 2| methods of self-realisation. Wangyucheng eulogised tea as "flooding
2482 5| of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined;
2483 6| punishment in this? ~The wanton waste of flowers among Western
2484 6| nowadays against those who wantonly destroy flowers and mutilate
2485 2| steeped tea, rejoiced in light ware of white porcelain. ~In
2486 1| spectacle of sanguinary warfare if Russia had condescended
2487 6| with the grim humour of a warlike age. After referring to
2488 6| the maddening thirst that warns of ebbing life. ~Flowers,
2489 6| your past incarnation to warrant such punishment in this? ~
2490 7| estimation in which the great warrior held the tea-master. But
2491 4| from labour to the fierce warriors and statesmen engaged in
2492 6| than he of the scissors. We watch with delight his concern
2493 6| Sekishiu once placed some water-plants in a flat receptacle to
2494 2| serene sky or floated like waterlilies on emerald streams. It was
2495 7| the grey stone lanterns. A wave of rare incense is wafted
2496 6| mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves
2497 6| and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers.
2498 3| discussion ensued while weeding the garden, paring a turnip,
2499 6| within you for two or more weeks longer than would have been
2500 4| architecture. We can but weep over the senseless imitations
2501 4| which groaned under the weight of the tile-covered roofs.
2502 3| absolutely perfectly. Thus many a weighty discussion ensued while