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The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shodows, untimately to guide shoadows towards beaty's ends.

And so it has come to be that beauty of a Japanese room depends on a variation of shodows, heavy shadows against light shadows-it has nothing else. ... Ot beyond the sitting room, which the rays of the sun can at best but barely reacg, we extend the eaves or build on a veranda, putting the sunlight at still greater a remove. The light from the garden steals in but dimly through paper-paneled doors, and it is precisely this indirect light that make s for us the charm of a room.

_Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, "In Praise of Shadows"


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monologue Wednesday, July 21, 2010 The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shodows, untimately to guide shoadows towards beaty's ends. And so it has come to be that beauty of a Japanese room depends on a variation of shodows, heavy shadows against light shadows-it has nothing else. ... Ot beyond the sitting room, which the rays of the sun can at best but barely reacg, we extend the eaves or build on a veranda, putting the sunlight at still greater a remove. The light from the garden steals in but dimly through paper-paneled doors, and it is precisely this indirect light that make s for us the charm of a room. _Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, "In Praise of Shadows" [Archives] January 2005 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 October 2010 December 2010 March 2011 October 2011 November 2011 December 2011 January 2012 February 2012 March 2012 April 2012
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