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The tea ceremony is rightly considered one of the greatest achievements of Japanese traditional culture. The cult of tea was borrowed by the Japanese from China, and initially the custom of tea drinking was spread mainly among Zen Buddhist monks, later the custom of ritual tea drinking penetrated into the aristocratic milieu, and then into the urban milieu. A small garden adjacent to the tea ceremony pavilion has a willow stone path, stone lanterns and mossy stones in the garden. Of particular importance are stone vessels with clean water (zucubai)...

The Japanese say that their cuisine is either not liked by foreigners, and then they don't like it so actively that they won't take anything Japanese in their mouths, or, on the contrary, they like it very much, and then they prefer it to everyone else. Japanese like variety most of all, and that's why in Japanese cities you can find restaurants of Italian, French, German, American, Indian and, of course, all variants of Chinese and Korean cuisine. But abroad, the Japanese quickly begin to yearn...

The material culture of the Japanese people continues to differ in its uniqueness, and despite numerous innovations, the traditional basis remains the dominant beginning. Next to giant skyscrapers, complex interweaving of modern highways for high-speed transport, the traditional culture of the Japanese people continues to live in the system of colossal metropolitan areas with their multi-million inhabitants. As for traditional Japanese homes, they are made of bamboo and paper, as the Japanese say, and the traditional homes are now inhabited by rural populations...

When people talk about hypnosis, they often mean something almost supernatural. In this case, the influence of one person on another is explained by the expiration of this force in the form of a so-called fluid from the ends of the fingers or from the eyes hypnotizing during sessions of hypnosis a. And so far, this view is especially willingly supported by the so-called magnetisers, who use the phenomena of hypnosis and for self-serving purposes of exploiting trusted persons. But science has long ago abandoned these and similar unfounded theories...

The history of shoes is as ancient as the history of human culture and the shape of shoes, like all other parts of clothing, has changed at all times and in all nations. Though craftsmen, soldiers and people of the lower classes of ancient Egypt went barefoot, but the Egyptians belonging to the higher classes, carried sandals which, however, always were removed in the presence or in a palace of tsar. The Egyptian sandals made of palm leaves or papyrus were attached to a leg by a transverse belt...