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  1. The 'secret' of their being up in the tree had continued for almost two years now. Where the thick trunk branched out near the top, the two…
  2. In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on t…
  3. From the way of Go, the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
  4. Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the 'cl…
  5. That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a…
  6. The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, …
  7. Dr. Yashiro Yukio, internationally known as a scholar of Botticelli, a man of great learning in the art of the past and the present, of the…
  8. That spirit, that feeling for one's comrades in the snow, the moonlight, under the blossoms, is also basic to the tea ceremony. A tea cerem…

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