Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Santa's Workshop. At the core of the Japanese character, Author Maraini sees certain determining qualities. The first is intimacy with nature. The Japanese garden is nature in the raw, scaled down but retaining its own asymmetrical harmony. The Japanese goal is not decoration or domination but communion, to experience the rockness of a rock or the treeness of a tree. A second quality- is seemingly innate manual dexterity. As Author Maraini describes it, Japan is a kind of mammoth Santa's workshop full of exquisite wood and paper toys...