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Hasegawa has at times been as withdrawn from reality in life as in the strange shapes and forms of his art. He studied at Tokyo University, got interested in Sesshu. the great 15th century Japanese Buddhist painter, and this led him to Zen Buddhist monasteries, where he used to sit for hours under the supervision of monks, trying to learn to exclude all thought from his mind, submerge himself in peaceful oblivion. In the early '30s he went to Europe, where he came under the influence of Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Arp and Alexander Calder. Says...
...mythology of India, the Himalaya is the home of the gods. Shiva and Vishnu wander through the everlasting snows on the ridge of the world. Thus, when European expeditions trail off into the mountains of Nepal, Buddhist peasants assume that the strangers are going to look for heaven. Last week the film record of the two latest Himalayan expeditions, put on public view, showed heaven and hell interfused in some of the most terrifyingly beautiful pictures ever to move across a screen...
Whenever he could spare the money, which was seldom enough, Yonosuke Itakura, a poverty-stricken job printer, sent his sickly daughter Yoko from Tokyo to the hot springs in the Buddhist Temple of the Understanding Way in the mountains of Hakone. There, one day last summer, a landslide roared down the mountains burying the child, her mother and eight others beneath a varicolored rubble of clay, pumice, granite boulders and choking volcanic ash. Rescue workers searched among the debris for bodies, but before the remains of Yoko and her mother were found, the search was abandoned. Yonosuke and his sons...
...Catholic father," he said, though "actually none of the Everest team was a Catholic ... It was in a small envelope about half the usual size. When we reached the summit, I remembered the crucifix and stuffed the whole thing, envelope and all, in the snow alongside Tenzing's [Buddhist] offering...
Mystics & Samurais. By the end of the 14th century Japanese sculpture had declined, while drawing rose to new heights under the inspiration of the Zen Buddhist sect. Zen Buddhists stressed solitary contemplation as the loftiest activity, and Zen artists tried to put the fruit of such contemplation-the feeling that God exists, veiled, throughout nature-on to paper. Confining themselves chiefly to ink and water, they drew flowers, priests, birds, and deep, misty landscapes, with only a few strokes of the brush...