"He shook a tree trunk, causing a few leaves to fall".
'Rikyu was asked to clean Joo's leaf-strewn garden. First he raked until the grounds were spotless. Then, in a gesture pregnant with wabi-sabi overtones, he shook a tree trunk, causing a few leaves to fall.'
WABI-SABI
Book : Leonard Koren
Photograph : Koichi Inakoshi