Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha (Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki)
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Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha (Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki)
respected Tanchiu Koji Terayama, director of Hitsu Zendo. The English translation of his book’s title is Zen and the Art of Calligraphy (transl. by John Stevens; Penguin Group, 1983).
He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work
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