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Tetsuro Watsuji

1 March 1889-26 December 1960

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Climate is the entire interconnected network of influences that together create an entire people's attitudes and values.

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History is the revival of the old such that it shines in the light of contemporary issues and concerns.

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Mono no aware is, despite what is often argued, not some ancient term with universal applicability, but rather, is the expression of a frustration that women of the heian court sublimated into aestheticism and hedonism.

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Mono no aware is not a term which can be understood with the intellect alone. To understand the term properly is to undergo the act of purifying the heart and to placing oneself upon the upright way of the ancients.