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...After retiring from public life and entering the Zen Buddhist order as a monk, Yoshimasa freely indulged his passions for architecture, gardening, literature and fine art. Early in his reign, he gained notoriety for building lavish palaces, even during times of terrible hardship for most of his people; in retirement, he turned to a more discreet, muted style. The highest expression of this restrained aesthetic was the Silver Pavilion, a superbly balanced temple made entirely of wood and paper at Yoshimasa's place of retreat in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto. Architectural historians consider the Ginkaku...
...know from The Tale of Genji and other early court fiction of the Heian period. At that time, however, gardens were seasonal, emphasizing spring and autumn to illustrate the perishability of beauty, the concept of the "pity of things." In Yoshimasa's era, however, gardens moved toward a Zen aesthetic, becoming more serene places of contemplation that favored the use of symbols of eternity such as rocks and sand over the transient beauty of flowers...
...part, Karan insists she was never out of step, merely ahead of her time. "I don't think the consumer was ready for what I was talking about," she says, sitting next to the Zen rock garden installed on the first floor of the Madison Avenue flagship store. (The store for DKNY, her lower-priced line, is a few blocks away.) "People thought I was weird for using candles and incense, but now I can sell more candles than I can sell clothes...
What is "beef bowl" without the beef? That sounds like a Zen riddle, but it's actually the nightmare playing out at Yoshinoya D&C Co., Japan's leading purveyor of gyudon, a fast-food staple of rice topped with thin slices of stewed beef that's tasty, filling and, at just $2.60 per serving, fantastically popular with students and salarymen...
...sharp contrast to Weinstein's brutish antics, Sundance founder Robert Redford's influence over the indie world is portrayed as Zen-like, though the actor's enigmatic, elusive nature keeps him mostly in shadows throughout the book. (Unlike Weinstein, Redford refused to talk to Biskind.) Still, Redford emerges long enough to double-cross his former protege, Steven Soderbergh, whose sex, lies, and videotape was shown in Park City in 1989, by plucking the movie Quiz Show out from under him. Redford sabotages his own efforts to launch a Sundance Cinemas chain by hooking up with a financially unstable partner...