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These taxis in the old capital city of Kyoto wait outside the doors of the ineffable, of another Japan entirely. The Ryoanji temple's Zen rock garden???five austerely abstract boulder mounds set in a sea of curried sand pebbles?is a celebrated spiritual masterpiece. The garden is absolutely still, and yet tense with an obscurely bullying profundity. A guide whispers the sermons in the stones, the allegories: the rocks are, maybe, tigers swimming across the sea. Or they are whales rocking in the deep. Or perhaps they are these mysterious islands themselves: Japan. The abbot of Ryoanji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...musician. Nothing more to it than that." Now that his turn has come, Monk cuts a fine figure on the scene. Nellie spends a hysterical hour every evening getting him into his ensemble, and when he steps out the door he looks faintly like an Oriental garden???subtle colors echoing back and forth, prim suits and silk shirts glimmering discreetly. He spends hours standing around with his band, talking in his unpenetrable, oracular mode. "All ways know, always night, all ways know?and dig the way I say 'all ways,' " he says, smiling mysteriously. When he is playing anywhere near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Loneliest Monk | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...GARDEN???Laurette Taylor and an exceptionally adept troupe telling about a woman who had everything in the world done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...GARDEN???Reviewed in this issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...SHANTUNG GARDEN???Louise Jordan Miln?Stokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Junk* | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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