Living the Japanese Arts & Ways: 45 Paths to Meditation & Beauty

Davey, H.E.; Moromoto, Wayne (foreword)

ISBN 10: 188065671X / ISBN 13: 9781880656716

Published by Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, 2003

About this Item

Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 2003. 210 pp. 23 x 18 cm. Glossy stiff paper wrappers with lettering ni dark mauve and blue. Very slight curling to front cover. One dog-ear crease to upper corner of page 57/58. Signed in black ink by Davey on page preceding the title page. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm with no creases or cracks. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Aibel, Steve.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living the Japanese Arts & Ways: 45 Paths to Meditation & Beauty
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188065671X
• ISBN 13: 9781880656716
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Aibel, Steve
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • New Additions
  • Signed Books
  • Buddhism - Zen

About this title

Synopsis

Ikebana and tea ceremony, karate and calligraphy--what do these traditional Japanese arts have in common? All represent different forms of training and practice, but all stem from shared principles of spiritual practice, moving meditation, and beauty. With practical examples and easy-to-follow exercises, this book concisely introduces 45 living concepts of the Way, from "wabi" and the "immovable mind" to "respect" and "duty," explaining their traditional Japanese roots and also how to incorporate them into our daily lives for greater serenity, concentration, and creativity.

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H. E. Davey is Director of the Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts. He has decades of training in Japanese yoga, healing arts, martial arts, and fine arts.

Review

"It is most helpful that Davey is a competent and well-organized writer, as no one of lesser ability could take on this massive subject in such a meaningful way...Living the Japanese Arts and Ways serves as a reminder to seasoned marital artists of what originally led them to study a particular "way" in the first place, and of its importance in their daily lives." Journal of Asian Martial Arts, Volume 12, Number 3, 2003