"A Year In Japan"

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Kate T. Williamson's watercolors are delicate and precise. Too bad I didn't like them more. 

• Visitor to the garden of Kyoto's Saiho-j Temple is required to copy a Buddhist sutra with a brush before entering.
• Rubber stamps and stamp pads are available for making souvenirs at nearly every public place called "Stamp Rally".
• A Zen master found movie watching distracting for his evening meditation. He started wathching two movies a day and discovered that they cancelled each other out.
• Cracks in ancient Japanese pottery are often repaired with metallic "filling" by specialists and "the golden vein" creates a new sort of beauty.
• (Temple carpenters in Rockabilly Club:) dancers produce little brooms and dustpans and meticulously sweep up every particle of sole and electrical tape from the plaza.
• star-shaped sand (fossils) from Taketomi island {小丸子！}
• {Also found in China:} the tofu vendor; counting words; a rabbit in the moon who is pounding rice into mochi