#japanese

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#beautiful #beautiful paintings #design #japanese #minimum

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cooking #difficult #food #i #japanese

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cheese #culture #food #french #genius

And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely. ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#japanese #beauty

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#during #holland #ii #japanese #lived

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#else #feel #girl #hard #imagine

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#front #hold #how #i #i do

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#atomic #atomic bomb #before #being #blows

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #beauty

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#foreigner #frankly #generous #how #i