Zen and the creative process: The “kendō-Zen” thought of the Rinzai Master Takuan

Abstract

After centuries of intense warfare interspersed by short-lived periods of peace, Japan abruptly entered into a new period of order from about 1600.The new era would bear its founder's name, being known as the "Tokugawa period," as most exist- ing values and institutions at all levels of society would come to be affected by this founder's mark of totalitarian efficiency