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48. Accurate Proportion
Sen no Rikyu, a tea-master, wished to hang a flower basket on a column.
he asked a carpenter to help him, directing the man to place it a little
higher or lower, to the right or left, until he had found exactly the
right spot. "That's the place," said Sen no Rikyu finally.
The carpenter, to test the master, marked the spot and then pretended
he had forgotten. Was this the place? "Was this the place, perhaps?" the
carpenter kept asking, pointing to various places on the column.
But so accurate was the tea-master's sense of proportion that it was
not until the carpenter reached the identical spot again that its
location was approved.
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