When a tea ceremony teacher in Tokyo was arrested late final 12 months for allegedly defrauding a pupil, the case highlighted tensions inside Japan’s tightly knit conventional arts faculties. As soon as belief collapses inside such a system, consideration typically shifts from the underlying drawback to the battle it creates.
As somebody who practices 茶道 (sadō/chadō, tea ceremony), I’m conversant in the internal dynamics of such faculties, and it was not tough to think about お家騒動 (o-ie sōdō, an inner energy wrestle) simmering beneath the floor.
日本の社会は、信頼関係と暗黙の了解によって成り立っている (Nihon no shakai wa, shinrai kankei to anmoku no ryōkai ni yotte naritatte-iru, Japanese society is sustained by trust-based relationships and tacit understandings).
