Manners, Money, and Modernity.In reply to a telegram the Iemoto dips his brush in ink and writes this beautiful, well-spaced, but humble letter about manners, money,...
Creating without idling is rare and praiseworthy. - Do not give up!This letter is about fish and poetry, about gratitude and sorrow. Ishikawa Jozan was a prominent Samurai recluse, garden designer, and...
More than Zen and pickled radishTakuan Soho was the prototypical early Edo monk scholar with a sharp, witty, and untamed spirit. Dressed in a monk’s robe he pursued...
An expression of respect, esteem, and gratitude by Matsumura Keibun... and about mending an umbrellaNo doubt that Shibata Zeshin was the most prominent lacquer artist of the nineteenth century. And Ikeda Taishin (1825–1903) was his most...
