The art of cleaning

This is a garden early in the morning and the garden is perfectly clean. Lots of lines, drawn by bamboo broom, set off the cleanliness.

By the way, here is an interesting small story about Senno Rikyu, one of great tea masters.

One day Rikyu told one of his pupils to make a garden clean and he cleaned up the garden immaculately. Even after he finished the cleaning, Rikyu said to him, "it is not enough." After that, he did another cleaning for a while and he asked Rikyu if he stop cleaning again. Rikyu said, "No, not enough!" Then Rikyu surprisingly began to shake a tree in the garden to make leaves falling onto the ground. He intended to make the ground feel more clean by putting some leaves.

Turning the perfect into the imperfect, Rikyu thought, made the perfection more perfect and added the depth to the perfection.

He preferred asymmetry to symmetry, imperfection to perfect, simplicity to flamboyance. These are some of criterion in tea ceremony.

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