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Datsuzoku
Surprise is the immediate effect of
an expression involving Datsuzoku.
It involves a transcendence of conventional
ideas and traditional usage. One should
be astonished in its presence and
realize a freedom from restrictive
laws or any kind of bondage in its
use. It may be the seed-bed of ultimate
creativity.
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Kuyo Shoin Preaching.
Surprise expression of sound in 3rd dimensional
sculpture.
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The very creation of the NIWA out of the raw
materials of nature and its success in
revealing the essence of natural things
to us is an ultimate surprise. Many surprises
await at almost every turn in a Japanese
Garden.
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Tori from
Miyajima.
Surprise that it is in the water.
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Satirical use of animals as political symbols
in a scroll painting titled
"Frolic of the Animals", sometimes attributed
to the monk Toba Sojo.
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The
Zen Principles which relate to the Niwa
are presented in the following pages:
| Fukinsei
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asymmetry
or dissymmetry |
| Kanso |
simplicity |
| Koko
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austerity,
maturity, bare essentials, venerable |
| Shizen |
naturalness,
absence of pretense |
| Yugen
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subtly
profound, suggestion rather than revelation |
| Datsuzoku |
unworldliness,
transcendence of conventional |
| Seijaku |
quiet,
calm, silent |
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