At first light, the Nitobe Memorial Garden breathes in silence. Dew settles on stone lanterns and soft moss. The pond lies still, a mirror for the pale sky. Among the maples, a figure moves slowly, ...
The Last Samurai, a sweeping Hollywood epic, tells the story of Katsumoto, a rebel samurai who dedicates his life to fighting the forces he believes are corrupting Japan’s traditional values. As seen ...
Nitobe Japanese Garden at the University of B.C. is always worth visiting, especially at this time of year when the sunlight streams through the high canopy of trees and turns the lake into a perfect ...
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After discovering that Central Compilation and Translation Press in Beijing had published a Chinese translation of Shūyō (Cultivating the Mind) by Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933), I decided to reread that ...
In this generously annotated edition, Nitobe’s classic 1900 study of Bushido, the Japanese “Way of the Warrior,” is refreshed for contemporary readers. As historian Alexander Bennett notes in his ...
“Haste not, Rest not” goes a framed, witty motto in English, hand-written with a traditional Japanese calligraphy brush by Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933). The piece leaps out when visitors step inside the ...
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