Word: samurais
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...course, anything collected by the Emperor or his ancestors is of immediate interest, since he is (or was until the U.S. occupation) a god. Nevertheless, it is rare to encounter an object as preposterous in its Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone virtuosity as the dancer in full samurai armor chiseled by Unno Shōmin, a late19th century court artist. It is less a sculpture than a mantelpiece ornament...
...political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals of the samurai class by repeating, in the aesthetic sphere, the discipline and frugality of a warrior's life...
...Seven Samurai, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and 22, 7:30 and 10 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 23, at 4, 7, and 9:30 p.m. Friday in Science B, Saturday in Science D, and Sunday in Science...
Mishima's samurai patriotism doubtless had a certain crackpot authenticity. He and his small private army were allowed to train with Japan's self-defense force. At the end, he was fanatically Japanese, yet he also cared deeply about foreign opinion. He has been lucky in his posthumous biographers in the West. The first, English Journalist Henry Scott-Stokes, last year published a sensitive and sympathetic analysis (The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima) that appreciated Mishima's accomplishments while explaining them in terms of his lurid narcissism...
...have lived long enough to see the Kung Fu, the latest dance fad karateing the country. Inspired by the Oriental hand-to-hand combat form (via the weekly TV series of the same name) and a best-selling spin-off record called Kung Fu Fighting, the dance resembles a samurai samba...