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What can we learn from Bonsai's popularity worldwide?
Posted Sep 8, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Envisioning a renaissance for American bonsai culture
Posted Sep 7, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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What is and is not Bonsai (盆栽)?
Posted Sep 6, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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What makes it bonsai?
Posted Sep 5, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Ikenobo? Sogetsu? Here is the answer!
Posted Sep 4, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Ikenobo? Sogetstu? Can you guess right?
Posted Sep 3, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Explore Teaism with your favorite drink, now!
Posted Sep 2, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Tea room-- a true sanctuary
Over a hundred years ago Kakuzo Okakura already pointed out the importance of having a tea room as his/her sanctuary. In this digital age, do we not need the tea room more than ever? In the tea-room the fear of repetition is a constant presence. The various objects for the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Asymmetry--another concept of a tea room
The "Abode of the Unsymmetrical" suggests another phase of our decorative scheme. The absence of symmetry in Japanese art objects has been often commented on by Western critics. This, also, is a result of a working out through Zennism of Taoist ideals. Confucianism, with its deep-seated idea of dualism, and... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Impermanence of a tea room
Posted Aug 30, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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The true art of "cleaning"
Posted Aug 29, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Show one's humility and respect for others in the tea room
Posted Aug 28, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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The meaning of Roji, the garden path to the tea room
Posted Aug 27, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Zen influence on a tea room
The most typical tea room is a square, four and a half tatami mat room. Kakuzo Okakura explains how Zen spirit is reflected in the square tea room. The simplicity and purism of the tea-room resulted from emulation of the Zen monastery. A Zen monastery differs from those of other... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Significance of a tea room
Posted Aug 25, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Zen and its influence on Teaism
A special contribution of Zen to Eastern thought was its recognition of the mundane as of equal importance with the spiritual. It held that in the great relation of things there was no distinction of small and great, an atom possessing equal possibilities with the universe. The seeker for perfection... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Taoism and how it relates to Teaism
The Taoists claimed that the comedy of life could be made more interesting if everyone would preserve the unities. To keep the proportion of things and give place to others without losing one's own position was the secret of success in the mundane drama. We must know the whole play... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Taoism and Zen in tea ceremony
In the third chapter of his book The Book of Tea, ... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Teaism in Japan -- a religion of the art of life
Posted Aug 21, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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The whipped tea flourishes in Japan
Japan, which followed closely on the footsteps of Chinese civilization, has known the tea in all its three stages. As early as the year 729 we read of the Emperor Shomu giving tea to one hundred monks at his palace in Nara. The leaves were probably imported by our ambassadors... Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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How the whipped powered tea was forgotten in China
Unfortunately the sudden outburst of the Mongol tribes in the thirteenth century which resulted in the devastation and conquest of China under the barbaric rule of the Yuen Emperors, destroyed all the fruits of Sung culture. The native dynasty of the Mings which attempted re-nationalization in the middle of the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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The whipped tea -- the Romantic school of Tea and the origin of Japan's tea ceremony
Posted Aug 18, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Luwuh and "Cha Ching" (The Holy Scripture of Tea)
It needed the genius of the Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state and lead to its final idealization. With Luwuh in the middle of the eighth century we have our first apostle of tea. He was born in an age when Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism were seeking... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Primitive method of drinking tea
Posted Aug 16, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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Tea as art -- its periods and its schools
Posted Aug 16, 2016 at Akemi's Blog
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