Japan’s culture and traditional crafts are more puzzling and mysterious than the Japanese themselves realize. Not only do they often seem baffling to Westerners, but they are quite different from the cultures of China, India and the rest of Asia as well. Japanese culture is frequently said to be ambiguous and illogical, but perhaps that’s because it is a mix of logic and sensations that forms a complete whole. Japan is a country where sensations become logical.
