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...always have this sense of mission. His stumbling onto the continent was in fact pure chance, a sort of accident of history. During lunch one day at the Signet, Fairbank, the Harvard undergrad studying English trade history, happened to hear Sir Charles Webster, the British historian just back from Kyoto, say that a new archive on 19th-century Chinese history had been opened in Peking. Fairbank decided that it was worth spending half of his Rhodes scholarship to take a look. Wilma C. Fairbank, then his wife-to-be, recalls that one of his classmates said at the time, "What...
...very broad. Some of the pieces are, in essence, conventional religious decoration -like the spectacular head of a horned dragon (see color page), its jaws rippling like the blade of a Malay kris, which was carried on a lance to repel evil spirits during religious processions in Nara, near Kyoto. Other sculptures are of an intense and archaic severity, like the votive dolls found in 3rd century tombs in what had been the Chinese kingdom of Ch'u. Still other pieces, such as the 13th century Chinese figure of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan-Yin, have extraordinary, almost liquid...
...weeks, after flying to Kyoto, the next stop on the itinerary, classes were thrice weekly, as much for the security of having a mini-U.S.A. as for the discussions on the nature of the culture. Organized field trips explored various parts of the land from Kabuki theater to dawn fish markets. A tatami-mat coffee house near Ginkaku-ji temple that served saki and played early Dylan became an after-hours meeting place for many in the group, including the faculty...
...Kaplan did not bother to ask me or the Trilateral Commission office about the current status of this report. Instead, he simply repeated the inaccuracies of an earlier Crimson account. In fact, as Professor Bell points out, our report was debated and not rejected at the Commission's Kyoto meeting last June; and since then the Commission's has sponsored its publication in book form, with a foreward by the director of the Commission, and has devoted a great deal of money and energy to publicizing the report and disseminating it as widely as possible. If this constitutes "rejection...
Discussing his future plans, Hironaka said yesterday, "I like America, but I like life in Japan too. I miss Kyoto very dearly, but I cannot say if I will go back...