Word: ito
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...inside the okushoin, an area of one of the main buildings that had been the head priest's residence for centuries but was now virtually abandoned. Inside the dark building, every room was filled with seemingly forgotten artistic treasures, including the flowers by legendary 18th century painter Jakuchu Ito, which cover every wall of the room that was once the priest's private study. It was unlike anything Takubo had ever laid eyes upon. Unlike much of Japanese art, in which seasonal coherence and the balanced composition of complete landscapes are recurring priorities, these intensely detailed close-ups of blooms...
...Daiei's owners, who face an early-September deadline for settling on a restructuring plan with the company's three lenders, are fighting to retain control by vigorously opposing both the IRCJ's and Wal-Mart's intervention. But with blood in the water, Japanese retailers Ito-Yokado and Aeon have expressed an interest in Daiei, too, leading analysts to predict that there could also be a takeover battle brewing in the retailing sector...
...fish story you will never forget, try as you might, is Junji Ito's "Gyo" (Viz; 200 pp.; $12.95). Ito specializes in horror comix, a genre virtually wiped out in America since EC comics had to stop publishing "Tales from the Crypt" and its sister titles in the early 1950s. Ito's chilling stories have some of the oddest premises in the genre. "Uzumaki," published in the U.S. by Viz in 2002, featured a town visited by a plague of spirals. "Gyo" starts out with Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa...
...genre, "Gyo" gets at larger ideas, like humans becoming slaves to their machines, while also supplying plenty of outrageous gore and freaky jolts. Fans of the films of David Cronenberg, such as "The Fly" and "Rabid," with their themes of bodily corruption, will see his influence on Ito's work. His brilliant drawings only become more outrageous as the story goes on, searing your brain with fantastically detailed moments of gut-puking carnage and nightmarish surreality. At one point Tadashi encounters a circus taken over by the germ that keeps going about its business - a seeping, rotting parody...
...anyone who has spent time in Asia, where rows of bottled, unsweetened teas line store fridges, the stuff sold in U.S. supermarkets can taste like pancake syrup. But enlightenment has arrived in the form of Teas' Tea, a line of unsweetened green teas from Ito En. Its six flavors are brewed from loose leaves and bottled in Japan (check itoen.com to purchase). Taste testers at TIME liked the "popcorn" flavor of Hoji and delicate Pure Green, though the utter lack of sugar startled some palates. Tea is hot these days: sales doubled between 1990 and last year, to $5.3 billion...