Debate brewing over Western taste in traditional Japanese tea bowl

All art feeds of of each other, outside influences mixing with native traditions have lead to some of the greatest art produced by the human species. People shouldn’t be so precious about it. Cultural appropriation is arrant nonsense, each society throughout history has learned from, adapted and adopted ideas from those it was in contact with for the betterment of mankind. If you preserve a culture in aspic, it withers and dies.