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Beautiful craftsmanship. The gentleman in this short documentary, recently repaired a small old teapot we used regularly. The repair is noticeable if looked for, but seems to have been done when the pot was made. Lovely work.

Well at least you won't have to travel far to find perfect rocks in Maine. After living in Lubec for 15 years i found smooth beautiful rocks on the Coast and rough rocks inland...mostly in my Garden every spring thanks to the frost heave. Now i live in Virginia and Rocks are hard to come by and are sold at a premium.

Adam, I would like to commend you for your perseverance in becoming an excellent craftsman, as well as for your fine character. Thank you. It must have been really tough to experience an apprenticeship in Japan. Nowadays, it is rare to find people who are willing to go through a Japanese apprenticeship due to its difficulty and lengthy duration. The meaning of「石の上にも三年」 If you are patient and persevere, you will succeed.'' If you sit on a cold stone for three years, the stone will start to warm up, so it is used as a metaphor to show that even if it is hard at first if you persevere for a long time, you will be rewarded.

I love this is so beautiful from something broken, art is created

You guys are great, so I decided to punish you with my garbage haiku...plez enjoy. 😊 hazy light on high sweet cries and flight, red wing...friend closing my eyes slipping

Thank you for sharing this!! I just did an interview with my student about Cold Mountain and his influence to Japanese poetry and Buddhism. It is so nice to find your channel!! I always love Haiku!!

Why are the objects not on display that were found inside of Shotoku ?

So interesting. I remember seeing the statue of Hachiko so often when we lived in Tokyo.

Wow. Beautiful. Thank you.

Old pond The frog doesn´t jump Sound of water.

What is the incredbile pink flower called at 4:06 in the video??

Wonderful explanations!!😂

Love this. Thank you

Nicely done! Camden, Maine is one of my favorite places on earth! It is so beautiful, and you and your crew are making it even more beautiful! Thank you so much for posting this informational and beautiful video!

Great interview and information on Manjiro san! Thank you.

I just love it. All my life i have been very drawn to the east. What a beautiful garden you have created.

Oh, thank you very much for this presentation. Such a lovely representation of Japanese elements within an American garden. Adding to my studies for my own Japanese inspired gardens.

Thank you. I’m so lucky to have discovered your channel. 🌸🐝

Are we able to visit these gardens?

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Thank you. Gardens. Music. Japan.

I just discovered this channel, thank you for this video! I study japanese and I am a meditator and into japanese literature, I read a Basho book and was looking for some analysis as it's so mysterious. I loved the poems and poets you showed, the analysis and giving some cultural context around it and the value and use of poetry in japanese society. The text below is also very beautiful and explains a lot, Buddhism is fundamental for one to understand Basho and haiku in general. 'It's all to be understood through visualization, because Zen does not believe in words', that sums it up.

Fun and interesting conversation!

Thanks for poems keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco do you writer jabran Khalil jabran?

I have done the Shikoku Pilgrimage and the Camino de Santiago and the Kumano Kodo. I found the Shikoku Pilgrimage osettai very comforting. Of the three I would chose the Shikoku Pilgrimage. The people were wonderful. The medieval buildings in Spain were spectacular. But Shikoku is more beautiful and the people too!

The Kamo River is a recreational area for local residents, with the riverbed maintained as a park. The water is shallow because of weirs that hold back the flow at regular intervals, and in summer, parents and children play in the river. Near the weir, the sound of the waterfall echoes loudly. If you visit Kyoto from spring to autumn, take a walk along the Kamo River. Especially upstream from Shimogamo Shrine, the natural scenery is more beautiful.

The cicadas "screaming into the silence" she interpreted it, which is very nice. Mine is "Shrilling into the rocks" - and it Is Rocks in that line. I worked at Yamadera Basho Kinenkan, and it was at Yamadera on the other side of the steep river valley where Basho got that haiku. Love those "Narrow Roads thru the Back Country" stories and verses. Its such gorgeous countryside.

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This was so much fun. Thank you again for hosting this event!

"Basho has tremendous respect in my heart. He is not only a mystic, a master, he is also a poet, a painter, a sculptor; he is a creative phenomenon. Nobody can compare with him as far as his multidimensional personality is concerned. He has the fragrance which only a flower can have. That fragrance is manifested in his poetry, in his small statements, in his every gesture. Even in his ordinary talks with people he cannot be other than Basho. Basho is far more refined, perhaps the most refined Zen master up to now. His refinement is in his cultured, meditative spaciousness. Out of that spaciousness many flowers have showered on the world. It does not matter wherever he is and whatever is going on, Basho is going to make it a Zen state of affairs. That uniqueness will not be found again. Basho is one of the greatest poets of the world, but he has written only haikus - very symbolic but very miraculous, very simple but very mysterious. They are all to be understood through visualization, because Zen does not believe in words. Visualize and perhaps you may have some understanding. A meditator, according to Basho, will go on searching deep within himself, but that does not mean that he should lose contact with the outside world. Once in a while he should open his eyes. With all his emptiness he should mirror the outside world. Those reflections are collected in these haikus. They don’t mean anything, they simply depict a picture. Basho is the greatest haiku poet of Japan, the Master haiku poet. But he was not just a poet. Before becoming a poet he was a mystic; before he starting pouring out with beautiful poetry, he poured deep into his own center. He was a meditator. It happened when Basho’s master died - Basho is a buddha, a buddha who writes poetry, a buddha who paints beautiful pictures, a very aesthetic buddha. His master died, thousands of people gathered. His master was very famous; more famous because of Basho, because Basho was a famous poet and painter and he was Basho’s master. Thousands of people gathered and they were very much surprised when they saw Basho crying, big tears rolling down his cheeks. A few close disciples of his master came to Basho and said, “It does not look right. Thousands of people are coming and they are getting confused. They don’t think a buddha should be crying and weeping, and you are the man who has been saying to them again and again: There is no death and the innermost core lives forever. Then why are you weeping? Your master is not dead, he has only moved from the small body to the universal body of God. So why are you weeping?” Basho wiped his tears and he said, “Listen! This is nobody’s business. I live according to my inner feelings, I cannot pretend. When my innermost core has disappeared into the universal. don’t care whether people think it right or not. If they don’t think that I am enlightened it’s okay, but I cannot pretend. I cannot do something which is not really there. And yes, I have said that the soul is immortal and my master has not died, he has disappeared into the universal. That’s why I am crying, not crying that he is dead but crying that now I will never be able to see his form. Now he has become formless - and his body was beautiful. I will never be able to look again into those deep eyes, I will never be able to hold his hand and touch his feet. I have lost his form - I am crying for his body, for his form; I am not crying for the formless soul. And I am not concerned whether people think me enlightened or unenlightened, that is their business. Who cares?”

Thank you so much for this delightful interlude in an otherize humdrum life. I appreciate the depth of these poems and the nuance you bring to them!

Thank you for showing us, Naoko!

Lovely presentation!

It will be good to relate these Shikoku places with a few Japanese Movies. Three times on-the-foot-sleep-everywhere Ohenro-San.

This has been a project for me, maybe, two years before the pandemic. This year I will definitely go next month.

Mashi is one of the wonderful cooking instructors teaching Japanese home cooking with the Japan Society of Boston. This was such a fun and delicious class. Thank you, Mashi and JBS.

Great video !

A very enjoyable discussion. "The Inland Sea" is one of my favourite books on Japan. I was fortunate to attend DR's talks possibly at a SWET event, definitely at Good Day Books. Thanks to everyone for seeing to this.

Thank you for this! I plan on making my first onigiri おにぎり today! Also Deb is lovely! What a fun sensei. Thank you Deb

Can we buy this kit someplace?

I unfortunately was sick on the night of the demonstration, but thanks to the beauty of the Internet being able to watch this was magnificent. Thank you Paul! Thank you for seeing its value and sharing it with us. I wish to someday be at peace in your structure and just listen to the beams myself. ❤️💜❤️

It's a wonderful image. I'm your fan.

Yes, Japan has strong relationships with Colorado and Boulder through the Yamagata-ken/ Colorado relationship and the Yamagata City - Boulder Friendship (Sister City) Relationship.

JSB- remember that we who view later cannot access chat, so helpful if you add contact info given so people can follow up. Thanks! Great session!

Oh, You're THAT Kerinanne! I heard about you in your days in baseball. I was an assistant to Daisuke's wife for a while.

What fun to watch this! Does she know about the KishaPoPo in a train car Espresso on the Mamigasaki Riverside in Yamagata-shi City? Cant wait to hear if she mentions it. De finitely one of those destination Coffee Shops in Japan. Merry, come over to the newly expanded Maruichi Market in Coolidge corner and we'll meet for coffee!

very interesting! Could you make a video like this about Akita Inu and the Shikoku Ken?

Patience and unconditional love by owners.