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...uses color sparingly, feels that his black ink "is very colorful." Sometimes he brushes his prints with ink, as in Man and Celestial, a simple arrangement of printed forms and two painted crescents that seems to radiate reverence. He also works with wax, sometimes draws in ink with a chopstick, even uses a dish mop of cellulose sponge...
When an Allied search party reached the barracks at the foot of Fujiyama, they found an old straw sandal, a chopstick and a rusty can (Japanese lacking Kusunose's peculiar sense of honor had long since looted everything else). The searchers also found Kusunose's body. But it no longer faced the sacred mountain. Before he died, Kusunose had found the "strength to turn away. The diary explained why: "It would be disrespectful if I died in the presence of revered Fuji...