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People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics.

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Essays on the nature, creation, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, springing from the authors experiences in Kyoto.

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The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel,moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a memorytheatre, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship.However, their apparent minimalism belies a deeper complexity.In Zen Landscapes