In Praise of Shadows

The description of this book comes best from the introduction by Charles moore. "It comes with the thrill of a slap for us then to hear praise of shadows and darkness;so it is when there comes to us the excitement of realizing that musicians everywhere make their sounds to capture silence or that architects develop complex shapes just to envelop empty space. Thus darkness illuminates for us a culture very different from our own, but at the same time it helps us to look deep into ourselves to our own inhabitation of our world, as it describes with spine tinglng insights the traditional Japanese inhibition of theirs. It could change our lives." Softcover.