Santoku (三徳) roughly translates to "three virtues" or "three uses

The long-lived carp have the energy and strength to swim up against strong currents

der søger at finde lykke og inspiration i sit fuldkomment ufuldkomne liv

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Large sand colored mug with blue and brown dots

Til skyggernes pris 5070opslagstavle Santoku (三徳) roughly translates toAt the price of shadows is Junichiro Tanizaki's (1886 1965) immortal masterpiece from 1933. It is a poetic eulogy to Japanese aesthetics, where Tanizaki, in a freely fable, essayistic style, moves from space and architecture to No theater, from cooking to lighting, argues for and guides his reader in the direction of seeing the beauty in oxidized metal, the majestic and elevated in unglazed ceramics and the subtlety of organic material bearing witness