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My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens
From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur
by: Adachi Zenko
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“True to my zodiac, I’m a
reckless, charging, wild boar kind of man. Rushing ahead without
looking right or left has often left me with honorable—or maybe not so
honorable—scars on my shins and shoulders.” —Adachi Zenko
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Price : US$29.95
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ISBN: 978-1-933330-86-0
376 pp, paper, 8.1 x 8.1"
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“Covers Adachi's childhood, romances, commercial success in textiles and real estate, business philosophy, devotion to the arts and gardening and efforts to make the museum one of the most renowned in the country.”
—The Daily Yomiuri
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The astonishingly frank autobiography of Adachi Zenko (1899–1990), founder of the Adachi Museum of Art.
In
his own words, Adachi tells how a scrappy and impoverished boy from
rural Japan turned the profits from his flair for daring and dealmaking
into a world-class museum and garden. A poor student, bullied in
school, the gregarious Adachi learned to seize on every opportunity
that came his way. He began as a lowly coal hauler and, after a short
stint in the military—aided by his ready, practiced smile—built a
series of businesses in Osaka. Always the opportunist, during WWII he
sold the army swords while buying up timberland for the expected
postwar boom. He was a rice broker, a textile wholesaler, and a real
estate man. He went to jail (unjustly). He had close friends who both
loved and betrayed him.
In the end, Adachi always pursued his
three unshakeable passions: art, women, and Japanese gardens. When he
was seventy, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by founding the Adachi
Museum of Art. With 500,000 visitors per year, today it boasts one of
Japan’s best Nihonga and ceramics collections amidst a spectacular
garden rated by Sukiya Living as “the finest in Japan.”
Lively, and full of insights into the uniquely Japanese pursuit of business and pleasure, this book
presents a full-blooded portrait of a creative, vigorous entrepreneur.
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