First of all,I have to introduce you my favorite part. I believe the part of this humanity is the traditional Japanese ideal and the philosophy of Japanese Constitution, in which we declared the renunction of the war to kill human being.
「Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of littles things in others. The average Westerner,in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
He was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields.
Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai,-the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self-sacrifce; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.
Fain would we remain barbarians,if our claim to civilisation were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.Fain would we await the time when due respect shall be paid to our art and ideals.」
"The Book of Tea"(Chales E. Tuttle Co.,Rutland, Vermont-Tokyo,Japan) From chapter ;
The Cup of Humanity pp.6-7
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