From the beginning, the Japanese mind is set in a culture that pays devout attention to sensate details. Their hobbies in the refined arts — flower arrangement, tea ceremony, calligraphy, martial arts, miniaturization, painstaking handicrafts, garden appreciation, food preparation, traditional dance — [all] bespeak a "precision consciousness" of sensate aesthetic qualities in an attempt at the ideal.
— James Hillman, Kinds of Power