"Stones scoops up water to wash his hands from an earthenware jar called a suikinkutsu. He made the jar for Akiko, rear, who practices the tea ceremony."
Yomiuri: Impressions of a bygone Japan
OKAZAKI, Aichi--As he delicately chips away at the block of wood, David Stones often wishes he could have lived in the Edo period..."What I think has been lost--and forever, as it can never return--is the Japaneseness of Japan," the 60-year-old Briton said. "Manners, language use, as well as the physical things like the basis of culture. Things have become so un-Japanese."...His wife of 33 years, Akiko, admires his uncompromising attitude toward work, saying, "He does everything very thoroughly."...more...
