Tabitha’s Reviews > Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival > Status Update

"What was expected of a 'civilized' power was neatly summed up by Kakuzo Okakura, author of The Book of Tea. 'The average westerner was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle art of peace,' he wrote. 'He calls her civilized since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on the Manchurian battle-fields.'"

who knew that this book would be the one I got bogged down on, and not Ninth House