Don & Isao Morrill on fri 14 apr 00
Hello....whoever,
I'm becoming more than a bit tired regarding Japanese
stereotypes and teabowls.
Perhaps many of you old Asia hands have fallen asleep.
ALL Japanese never did fit the European stereotype.
Not all Japanese are terribly interested in the
aesthetic of
tea.
Not all Buddhists revere teabowls or tea ceremony.
Do not seek, on the Ginza for what is not there among
Japanese youth.(no,no...there is no deep,underlying
current of traditionalism among a great slice of Japanese
youth. They busy themselves primping,looking into mirrors
and burying their heads in the sands of Now.(Just like
American youth.)
My dear friend, Tansetsu, monk and ex-metalurgist,
after his long trek from Kyoto to Tokyo, sent me a postcard, sans postage:"
I am a poor monk. Please pay postage." Now THAT is human. After examining a
dogbowl which I had picked up on the Kyoto dump and for which I had turned
a lovely wooden cover, Tansetsu said, "Bowl 25yen. Cover 500yen."
Now I suppose you all want a blueprint.
Don
Don & Isao Sanami Morrill
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Elca Branman on mon 17 apr 00
Thank you , thank you..for reminding all of us that one size bowl does
not fit all and that one size stereotype, even if worshipful and admiring
,smacks of racism.
Elca Branman in Sarasota, Florida
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 13:43:33 EDT Don & Isao Morrill
writes:
>
> I'm becoming more than a bit tired regarding
>Japanese
>stereotypes and teabowls.
> Perhaps many of you old Asia hands have fallen
>asleep.
> ALL Japanese never did fit the European
>stereotype.
> Nof
> tea.
> Not all Buddhists revere teabowls or tea ceremony.
> Do not seek, on the Ginza for what is not there
>among
> Japanese youth.(no,no...there
Elca.. at home in Sarasota,Florida,USA
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