#japanese

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#assumed #concepts #dominant #japanese #position

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#houses #interior #into #japanese #melts

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#flexibility #greatest #japanese #lessons #most

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. ↗

— William Manchester

#between #course #dress #except #frequent

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#any #collect #combine #comes #course

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#appears #bring #english #fond #here

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#day #ended #fighting #japan #japanese

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#closely #comes #finnish #form #interest

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction