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...Great Hon'ami Koetsu--how many people in the West have heard of him? Not too many, but in the early 17th century this man was to Japanese culture roughly what Leonardo da Vinci or Benvenuto Cellini had been to Italy a century before: a wonderfully versatile master of many media, renowned equally as painter, calligrapher, potter, lacquer artist and, thanks to his close relationship with the great shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the virtual "art director" of Buddhist Japan. No artist, Eastern or Western, was ever more authoritative within his own culture; and Koetsu's work was also identified with...
DISCOVERING JAPAN'S DA VINCI HON'AMI KOETSU...
Quizzed about Pope John Paul II's visit to the Holy Land, Israel's Internal Security Minister Shlomo Ben Ami predicted it would be "almost of eschatological magnitude." Eschatology is a term used to describe ultimate things such as judgment, heaven and hell. Since Ben Ami is not Christian, his use of it regarding a Catholic pontiff was probably figurative. In political and police terms, the word fits admirably: the Pope's trip is a remarkable culmination, and its stakes will--for better or worse--be high...