 |
||||||||
 |
The Japanese Way of the Artist Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, Brush Meditation, The Japanese Way of the Flower by H.E. Davey 512 pp, 6 x 7.75", paper, 135 B&W illustrations and photographs, ISBN 978-1-933330-07-5, $19.95 |
|||||||
Living the Japanese Arts & Ways: 45 Paths to Meditation & Beauty “Davey uses words with clarity and simplicity to describe the non-word realm of practicing these arts-calligraphy, martial arts, tea ceremony, painting-and the spiritual meaning of such practice. . . . A wonderful complement for practitioners of meditation, especially Zen.”Publishers Weekly The Michi Mission: From chado—“the Way of tea”—to budo—“the martial Way”—Japan has succeeded in spiritualizing a number of classical arts. The names of these skills often end in Do, also pronounced Michi, meaning the “Way.” By studying a Way in detail, we discover vital principles that transcend the art and relate more broadly to the art of living itself. . . . Books in the series Michi: Japanese Arts and Ways focus on these Do forms. They are about discipline and spirituality, about moving from the particular to the universal. The three works anthologized here are essential to understanding the spiritual, meditative, and physical basis of all classical Japanese creative and martial arts. Living the Japanese Arts & Ways covers key concepts—like wabi and “stillness in motion”—while the other two books show the reader how to use brush calligraphy (shodo) and flower arranging (ikebana) to achieve mind-body unification. In the MICHI series, H.E. Davey explores the mind/body connection that lies at the heart of traditional Japanese arts and culture. H. E. Davey is Director of the Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
||||||||
| Other titles of interest
The Way of Taiko by Heidi Varian; Foreword by Seiichi Tanaka Light From the East by Frank Macovec Wabi Sabi by Leonard Koren The Art of Setting Stones by Marc Peter Keane Naikan by Gregg Krech |