ABSTRACT

It has long been recognized that numbers are important in Japanese life and art. What interests me most is that the numbers which occur most frequently are the same numbers found in Greek art, when Jay Hambidge made his extensive study of the subject, and developed the "Dynamic Theory." He found that the Greek proportions in vases, buildings, and even in sculpture were based on the numbers one, three, five, seven, thirteen and twenty-one. Also

he discovered the interesting fact that these numbers, which are the harmonics in music, appear frequently in the number of seeds in apod.