In the past few years, there's been an exceptional interest in the various cultural facets of traditional japan. Classes and such diverse Japanese ways as the art of the tea ceremony and the Art of the Samurai's halbeard has sprung up in different places in the occident, to join more popular ways already here such as Judo Kendo and kudo there are in fact groups of westerners non devoted to forms of kodo the art of incense appreciation and Noah the oldest form of Japanese theater. This interest has been particularly gratifying to note, since in many cases those involved are not just learning the mere surface techniques or skills of these arts, but are seeking and in-depth understanding of the principles and philosophical and historical meanings. The interest has infected? Artist as well, a number of him despite years of experience in the Buddha seem to have only recently discovered that these Marshall ways are part of the warp and weave of Japan's futile past and that, by extension, those who pursue them have a dependence upon the past, in a significant state in its continuation.