Introduction

W. David Marks is the author of Amatora, a new book about art and culture in Japan. He argues that there's another way to look at innovation - one that might seem slower and more conservative. In Japanese traditional crafts and martial arts there's an idea of kata which is a form. And what you're doing as a student is learning how to perfectly imitate that kata. This is functionally what Kensuke issues who did for fashion. She was teaching an entirely new way to have style.