…opportunity to wage war, that seems to me like a good deal.” — Lauren W. Deutsch [i] Headline of a mid-20th century advertisement for Blackglama mink coats in the U.S….
…China Treasure Mountain, Anxi, China Darjeeling, India; Tung Ting, Taiwan Taiping, China; Wenshan, Taiwan Phongsali, Laos Reviews: Lauren W. Deutsch on Tan Dun’s opera Tea: A Mirror of Soul Josh…
…his ability to walk in the light of two suns, and to live one life in two cultures. I can only reply, “Aloha! What’s next?” *See Lauren W. Deutsch’s review…
…Burma 63 Phoenix Mountain, China; Wuyi, China 76 Treasure Mountain, Anxi, China 77 Darjeeling, India; Tung Ting, Taiwan 78 Taiping, China; Wenshan, Taiwan 79 Phongsali, Laos Reviews: Lauren W. Deutsch…
…and The Avant-Garde 1905-1931, by Gennifer Weisenfeld — Lauren W. Deutsch Mirror of Modernity, Invented Traditions of Modern Japan, Ed. Stephen Vlastos, — Lauren W. Deutsch The Man Who Saved…
…Why Has Bodhidarma Left For the East? reviewed by Lauren W. Deutsch Women of the Way: Discovering 2,000 Years of Buddhist Wisdom, Sallie Tisdale, reviewed by Lauren E. Bean Losing…
…Bathed by the light of Spirit, I felt clean and reborn. I practically flew down the mountain to the town in the valley below. I returned with my Godmother to…
…and Urbanism by Vinayak Bharne – Lauren W. Deutsch Online Reviews: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee – Brian Covert Running Through Beijing by Xu…
…Sir, your slip is showing: Cross-dressing Shamans in Korea —Lauren W. Deutsch Women of Japan — Photographs by Laurie Toby Edison Taking on the System: Sumitomo women’s victory for equality…
…by Nancy Yaw Davis — Lauren W. Deutsch Song of the Snow Lion: Recent Fiction, Poetry & Essays from Tibet (Manoa) Ed. Frank Stewart — Lauren W. Deutsch Published…
…The Pillow Book, by Peter Greenaway — Lauren W. Deutsch Conjuring Tibet: A Novel, by Charlotte Painter — Leza Lowitz Confronting Silence: Selected Writings, by Toru Takemitsu — David Cozy…
…4, P. 30-39) from the Internet via The First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, 1999. 2 Soto Shu Shumucho, Tokyo, 1982 Lauren W. Deutsch, a long-standing KJ contributing editor and chajin,…
Lauren Deutsch finally found her long-lost slide of the shopfront she describes in Kyoto View 18, ‘Finding Home’ — after KJ100 went to the printer. So, we’re posting her reminiscence…
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection. Susanna Ferrell, ed. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art / DelMonico Books/D.A.P, 2021) 256 pages. The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in…
[I]t’s five a.m. on a crisp spring morning in the densely populated hillside community of Immun-dong in Seoul. The sun is just sparking on the dew settling on lids of…
“To begin with a chawan in the palm of one’s hand and end up imagining a garden, poem or painting reveals the richness inherent in Japanese culture.” — Allen S….
I am not your typical or natural tea student: a left-handed, cross-country skiing, Jewish feminist. Studying chanoyu for the past 24 years has been both challenging and intriguing for all…
…art; one taste of tea refreshes and purifies and gives enlightenment to the universal law. –Murata Shukô (1423-1502) Tea – enjoyed in powdered leaf form – was imported to Japan…
…of practitioners has changed drastically with the economic and social ebb and flow. By the end of the Edo period, “even” women and foreigners were counted among practitioners and licensed…
Korean shaman painting Review of God in Pictures in Korean Contexts: The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings by Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang and Yul Soon Yoon. (Honolulu. University of…
Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto by Leslie Buck. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 280 pp., $24.95 (cloth) Dead needles are plucked by hand from Japan’s most…
The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion 1590 – 1800, Brett L. Walker (2001, University of California Press, Berkeley) [T]he sheer lack of general information in…
[T]here is a classic “Pink Panther” television cartoon in which PP and his Anonymous Nemesis are chasing each other through a decidedly two-dimensional locale. All of a sudden, clearly overwhelmed,…
…children to one of Japan’s performing arts academies, such as those that run something like a reform school for and by the Takarazuka Review. (See my review in the print…
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Recipient of the Commissioner’s Award of the Japanese Cultural Affairs Agency 2013
in Kyoto, Japan.