Asks Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

“Grave What do you think of my new glasses I asked as I stood under a shade tree before the joined grave of my…

— Billy Collins

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you…

— J. Carter Brown

“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds…

— Catherine Crowe

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

— Tadao Ando

I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath.…

— Pico Iyer

Japan was this wonderful unexplainable sensual explosion - everything about it I found fascinating. There's a real dichotomy between the 'Blade Runner'-esque Tokyo to…

— Edith Bowman

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens…

— Robert Fortune

“My two weeks here are filled with activities. Private lessons in Japanese history, language, and arts. Tours of shrines, temples, and tombs. A visit…

— Emiko Jean

It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale…

— Frederic Chopin

“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

— Tahir Shah