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The 11 Things a Japanese Monk Uses to Tidy

Photo: Joe Lingeman/JOE LINGEMANShoukei Matsumoto, a Japanese Buddhist monk (and the author of A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind), cleans for two hours most days at his temple in Tokyo. T…