Jo-ha-kyū (序破急) 

It essentially suggests that all actions or efforts should:
- begin slowly
- speed up
- then end swiftly

feels like elements of Jo-ha-kyū may have inspired Kanban

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

artist • philomath • developer • optimist • 
/gen-art • /consciousness • /ink • /schematics

Also the fact Taiichi Ohno got the idea for Kanban partially by being inspired by American Supermarkets in the 1950s and how they were run (on his US visit) which were a modern marvel in post war Japan - which became the pull based inventory system iirc