Reviews and praise for Brushing
heart and mind, shot with Zen, THE FOURTH TREASURE has the depth and
nuance of a skillfully calligraphed scroll. Todd Shimoda balances
the worlds of neuropsychology and the ancient "Way of the Brush,"
from Kyoto to Berkeley, from Japanese culture to American and every
shade in between. "A
singular and beautiful and humanly profound hybrid of East and West.
Todd Shimoda has accomplished a prodigious interplay of heart-touching
fiction, scientific and aesthetic elucidation--and delicately sublime
art, embodied in L.J.C. Shimoda's interludes of Japanese shodo calligraphy.
To the diverse tradition of cross-cultural and cross-discipline masterworks,
from Einstein's Dreams to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance--to The Tao of Physics--I would now add the
riches of THE FOURTH TREASURE. One can only stand in awe of it."
THE FOURTH
TREASURE
LIZA DALBY (The Tale of Murasaki)
BARRY YOURGRAU (A Man Jumps out of an Airplane, and most recently
Haunted Traveler )
