Moral and spiritual values and the arts are inextricably intertwined in Japan. The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation is an exploration of that bond. 

Author Robert E. Carter examines five arts (or “ways” in Japan): the martial art of aikido, Zen landscape gardening, the Way of Tea, the Way of Flowers, and pottery making. Each art is more than a mere craft, for each takes as its goal not just the teaching of ethics but the formation of the ethical individual.

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