Kyoto Journal Issue 65

As a young man in early Occupied Japan, Donald Richie — a masterly writer who himself would play a leading role in introducing Japanese culture and film to the West — visited Dr. Suzuki a number of times at the Matsugaoka Bunko, a Buddhist library that Suzuki founded in 1946 on the hillside grounds of the Tokeiji temple compound in Kamakura. – Yoshie Osawa, The View to Mt Sumeru: Donald Richie on Dr. D. T. Suzuki 

After living in Shingu for a while with my father’s parents, the Oishis, I moved in with my mother’s mother, Mon, and my two brothers at the Nishimura house in Kuwabara. It was at that time, when I was only eight years old, that I legally became the head of the rich Nishimura household. – Nishimura Isaku trans. Joseph Cronin, A Mountain Village 

I paused to look over his shoulder at what he had drawn on the ground, and my eyes grew wide. It was not one script, O Maha-Raja, but many: Nagri, Uk, Mangal, Parusha, the ideograms of the East. In every language I knew and in some that I did not, the Prince had written the sacred verse. And he continued, absent-mindedly, as if he merely daydreamed, scratching pictures in the dust. – Heinz Insu Fenkl, Milk from Water: Siddhartha Guatama and the Great Birt 

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Despite being blind from birth, Ikuyo said she sees things in her dreams, and it shocked me when she said, “I dream in color.”

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