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...strange visitor down from a cloudless sky over Kyoto, Japan, yesterday morning, excitement among the residents of that ancient city. It was, of course, the missing Lampoon Ibis, and its brief appearance over Japan confirmed speculation that it had been heading for the Orient when last seen above San Francisco...
...Kyoto radio station reported that the bird traveled "with fair speed" but at "a very low altitude." Warned of its approach, crowds gathered is a city part to watch the Ibis soar overhead, and an American tourist managed to snap a picture of it as it past his hotel window. Latest reports from Japan said the Ibis was flying West, toward the Asiatic mainland...
...Nosedive." A Kyoto banker's son, Nagare was so brash from the beginning that his father packed him off to a Zen temple to meditate. While there, Nagare was entranced by an aging master swordsmith, who ritualistically tempered keen blades for samurai swords, as good for beholding as for beheading. For four years, Nagare took classes at night in order to devote days as an apprentice to the old swordsmith, learning lessons about the taut contours and precision polish that eventually cropped up in his sculpture...
...unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
wanted to build a new consulate general in Kobe, Japan. Yamasaki went to Japan, was enchanted by the traditional architecture he saw. He visited the Katsura Palace and the Gosho (Old Imperial Palace) in Kyoto, spent hours studying the ancient temples in their garden settings. "I was overwhelmed by the serenity that can be achieved by enhancing nature," says he of those gardens. "It was here that I decided that serenity could be an important contribution to our environ ment, because our cities are so chaotic and full of turmoil." Work on the consulate general - a white structure raised slightly...