Ashikaga Period. 1400 1600 A.d : p. 163 ASHIKAGA PERIOD 1400-1600 A.D. THE Ashikaga period is named from that branch of the Minamoto family who succeeded to the Shogunate. It sounds, natural outcome as it is of Kamakura hero-worship, the true note of modern art, Romanticism in its literary sense. The conquest of Matter by...
Buddhism And Indian Art : p. 62 BUDDHISM AND INDIAN ART BUDDHISM is a growth. The diamond-throne of the original enlightenment is now difficult indeed to discover, surrounded as it is by the labyrinth of gigantic pillars and elaborate porticos which successive architects have erected, as each added his porti...
Toyotomi And Early Tokugawa Period. 1600 1700 A.d : p. 185 TOYOTOMI AND EARLY TOKUGAWA PERIOD 1600-1700 A.D. THE Ashikaga rule, weakened by the factions of the two families, Yamana and Hosokawa who, as regents of the Shoguns, were dominant, gave way by degrees before the rising power of the feudal barons. The country was in a constant state of war...
The Primitive Art Of Japan : p. 14 THE PRIMITIVE ART OF JAPAN THE origin of the Yamato race, who drove the aboriginal Ainu before them into Yezo and the Kurile Islands, in order to establish the Empire of the Rising Sun, is so lost in the sea-mists out of which they sprang, that it is impossible to divine the source of their...
The Vista : p. 236 THE VISTA THE simple life of Asia need fear no shaming from that sharp contrast with Europe in which steam and electricity have placed it to-day. The old world of trade, the world of the craftsman and the pedlar, of the village market and the saints'-day fair, where little boats row up...
The Kamakura Period. 1200 1400 A.d : p. 153 THE KAMAKURA PERIOD 1200-1400 A.D. WITH the establishment of the Shogunate, or military vice-royalty by Yoritomo of the Minamoto family at Kamakura, in 1186 A.D., begins a new phase of Japanese life, whose main features continued till the Meiji restoration of the present day. This Kamakur...
Title Page : THE IDEALS OF THE EAST WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ART OF JAPAN BY KAKUZO OKAKURA E.P. Dutton & Co., New York [1904] scanned , April 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain. These Files May Be Used For Any Non-commercial Purpose, Provided This Notice Of Attribution Is...
Laoism And Taoism Southern China : p. 43 LAOISM AND TAOISM--SOUTHERN CHINA CONFUCIAN China could never have accepted Indian idealism had not Laoism and Taoism, ever since the end of the Shu dynasty, been preparing a psychological basis for the common display of these, the mutual polarities of Asiatic thought. The Yang-tse-Kiang is...
The Range Of Ideals : p. 1 THE RANGE OF IDEALS ASIA is one. The Himalayas divide, only to accentuate, two mighty civilisations, the Chinese with its communism of Confucius, and the Indian with its individualism of the Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of love...
The Heian Period. 800 To 900 A.d : p. 128 THE HEIAN PERIOD 800 TO 900 A.D. THE idea of the union of mind and matter was destined to grow still stronger in Japanese thought, till the complete fusion of the two conceptions should be reached. It is remarkable to find that this fusion rather centres in the material, and the symbol is...
Later Tokugawa Period. 1700 1850 A.d : p. 195 LATER TOKUGAWA PERIOD 1700-1850 A.D. THE Tokugawas, in their eagerness for consolidation and discipline, crushed out the vital spark from art and life. It was only their educational institutions which in later days reached the lower classes, and to some slight extent redeemed these defects...
The Asuka Period. 550 To 700 A.d : p. 83 THE ASUKA PERIOD 550 TO 700 A.D. THE first Buddhist period in Japan begins with the formal introduction of Buddhism from Corea in 552. It is called the Asuka period because the capital was in that province, until its final removal to Nara in 710 A.D. And it signifies the influence up...
The Nara Period. 700 To 800 A.d : p. 108 THE NARA PERIOD 700 TO 800 A.D. A NEW era was to be born. The whole of Asiatic thought was surging on, past that distant vision of the Indian Abstract-Universal which Buddhism had made possible, to recognise its supreme self-revelation in the Cosmos itself. The vulgarisation of this impulse...
The Meiji Period. 1850 To The Present Day : p. 205 THE MEIJI PERIOD 1850 TO THE PRESENT DAY THE Meiji period begins formally with the accession in 1868 of the present Emperor, under whose august direction a new ordeal, unlike any in the annals of our country, has had to be faced. That constant play of colour which distinguishes...
The Fujiwara Period. 900 To 1200 A.d : p. 141 THE FUJIWARA PERIOD 900 TO 1200 A.D. THE Fujiwara period dates from the ripened ascendency of that family at the accession of the Emperor Daigo, 898 A.D. With it begins a new development in Japanese art and culture, which may be termed the "national", in contrast to the predominating...
Introduction : p. xi INTRODUCTION KAKUZO OKAKURA, the author of this work on Japanese Art Ideals--and the future author, as we hope, of a longer and completely illustrated book on the same subject--has been long known to his own people and to others as the foremost living authority on Oriental Archology and Art...
Untitled : This is a short but very concise introduction to Asian art by the author of The Book of Tea. Written from a Japanese perspective, and focusing on Japanese art, one of the major themes is the relationship between spirituality, particularly Buddhism, and the evolution of Asian art. Title Page Table...
Confucianism Northern China : p. 23 CONFUCIANISM--NORTHERN CHINA THE first wave of continental influence which swept over the art of primitive Japan, before Buddhism reached us in the sixth century, was that of the Hng and the Six Dynasties of China. Hng art was itself the natural outcome of a primeval Chinese culture, which...
