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...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
...eight days they had sit-down-struck, huddling at a temple in the hills, taking an icy "purification bath" nude each morning in the forest, then kneeling on hard, cold rocks for half an hour as they prayed for success. Such rigors were too much for Geisha Fukuko Miyamoto who slipped away one morning to the cosy town where, gnawed by pangs of remorse, she poisoned herself and died. After a high-powered conference of police, priests and others who had Geisha interests at heart, the strike was settled with recognition of the Geisha Guild, topped off with nights...
...Then he went motoring with his friend Joe Kirkwood. Coming back, he put out his right hand while Kirkwood was parking the car, had it jammed against a post. Next day, his broken wrist in a cast, Horton Smith saw Burke go two extra holes to beat Tomekichi Miyamoto, Japanese champion in 1929 and 1930, who had come over for the winter season with two other crack Japanese pros, Rakuzo Asami and Kokichi Yasuda...