Enlightenment Through the Art of Basketball    by Hirohide Ogawa
Price: $3.99 USD. 8330 words. Published by Oleander Press  on January 20, 2013. Nonfiction.
Yanagi enquired: What did the apprentice say to you? Ogawa answered: He said, “May I play?” Yanagi said: And what did you reply? Ogawa whispered: I asked him politely if he could be the post. Hirohide Ogawa’s dicta and aphorisms on the art of basketball, edited by his pupil S. Yanagi, constitutes the first book on the relationship of basketball with ultimate reality yet published in the West.