Word: daruma
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...hangs near several of his other scrolls. Onko’s works make the attraction of this genre especially clear. The Onkos are strikingly expressive. Even without knowing the characters’ meanings, visitors can read the expression in his brushstrokes; in Onko’s scroll entitled Bodhidharma (Daruma), for example, the mix of heavy and light marks made by the artist’s hand suggests the varying pressure he must have used to make them...
...modern headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was unusually subdued for a victory celebration. The banzais were perfunctory and beer toasts stood untouched. Even the usually ebullient party leader, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, looked less than exuberant as he painted in the missing eye on a huge daruma doll, a traditional rite signifying victory or success...
...Veracity and readability were uniquely combined in "The Right Eye of Daruma," your cover story on Japan and Premier Sato...
When a Japanese prepares to make a wish, he is apt to buy a one-eyed doll modeled after the famed Buddhist monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
...with hostility. It's great to bust a board instead of a head." Board busting with the naked hand is a spectacular but comparatively recent demonstration of karate (literally, empty hands). Legend holds that the sport was started in the 6th century by an Indian Buddhist monk named Daruma Taishi, who taught it to Chinese monks. It was refined on Okinawa after 1600, introduced in the 1920s to Japan, where it quickly shared popularity with the gentle art of jujitsu and its systematized variation, judo. But where their aim is to use an opponent's own weight...