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...golden age of Japanese art, when the Japanese were beginning to throw off the influences of India and China and to develop styles of their own. In those days, artists of every sort swarmed about the great Buddhist temples at Nara, 20 miles south of Kyoto. Some worked with stone, wood and metals. Others chose lacquer, mixing it with powdered incense, spreading it on linen strips over models of wood or plaster, and then painting their work in flaming vermilion, gold and blue. Over the years, most of their work has been lost or burned, but enough of it remains...
...with gravel; three times a day, they are fed with water containing the necessary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium). The water, drained back by gravity into an underground reservoir, is used over & over again. There are two farms, one at Chofu, 14 miles from Tokyo, the other near Kyoto. The larger installation at Chofu has 50 acres of hydroponic plots in the open and five acres under a million-dollar greenhouse, has its own ice plant and railroad siding...
From the Japanese Foreign Office to Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf went an airmailed gift: photographs of a sturdy pine tree which Gustaf planted in a Kyoto temple garden 25 years ago when he was Crown Prince...
Just after the close of the College spring vacation, seven more professors will visit Cambridge. The men come here from several Japanese Institutions including Tokyo, Kobe, Kyoto, and Waseda universities, and their fields range from educational psychology to civil...
Between 1932 and 1939 he was a Travelling Fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and studied at the University of Paris, Tokyo Imperial University, Kyoto Imperial University and in Korea and China...