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Okakura Kakuzō

Index Okakura Kakuzō

(also known as 岡倉 天心 Okakura Tenshin) was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan. [1]

44 relations: Asahi Shimbun, China, Christopher Benfey, Eastern world, English language, Ernest Fenollosa, Europe, Ezra Pound, Fukui, Fukui, Hashimoto Gahō, India, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Japan, Japanese people, Kojin Karatani, Kokka, Kuroda Seiki, Martin Heidegger, Meiji period, Meiji Restoration, Modernism/modernity, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Library of Australia, Nihon Bijutsuin, Nihonga, Pan-Asianism, Rabindranath Tagore, Rokkakudō (Kitaibaraki), Russo-Japanese War, Scholarly method, School of Advanced Study, Swami Vivekananda, Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki, The arts, The Book of Tea, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tomonobu Imamichi, United States, University of Tokyo, Western culture, William Sturgis Bigelow, Yōga, Yokohama, Yokoyama Taikan.

Asahi Shimbun

The is one of the five national newspapers in Japan.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Christopher Benfey

Christopher Benfey (born October 28, 1954) is an American literary critic and Emily Dickinson scholar.

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Eastern world

The term Eastern world refers very broadly to the various cultures or social structures and philosophical systems, depending on the context, most often including at least part of Asia or geographically the countries and cultures east of Europe, specifically in historical (pre-modern) contexts, and in modern times in the context of Orientalism.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Ernest Fenollosa

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 – September 21, 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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Fukui, Fukui

is the capital city of Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

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Hashimoto Gahō

was a Japanese painter, one of the last to paint in the style of the Kanō school.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner

Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was a leading American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese people

are a nation and an ethnic group that is native to Japan and makes up 98.5% of the total population of that country.

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Kojin Karatani

is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic.

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Kokka

(lit. 'Flower of the Nation') is a periodical of Oriental art, first issued in October 1889.

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Kuroda Seiki

Viscount was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter and teacher, noted for bringing Western theories about art to a wide Japanese audience.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics, and is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification".

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Meiji Restoration

The, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Modernism/modernity

Modernism/modernity is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1994 by Lawrence Rainey and Robert van Hallberg.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fifth largest museum in the United States.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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Nihon Bijutsuin

* Japan Art Academy is a non-governmental artistic organization in Japan dedicated to Nihonga (Japanese style painting).

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Nihonga

Nihonga (日本画, "Japanese-style paintings") are Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials.

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Pan-Asianism

Pan-Asianism (also known as Asianism or Greater Asianism) is an ideology that promotes the unity of Asian peoples.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Rokkakudō (Kitaibaraki)

, was a hexagonal wooden retreat overlooking the sea along the Izura coast in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo–Japanese War (Russko-yaponskaya voina; Nichirosensō; 1904–05) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.

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Scholarly method

The scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public.

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School of Advanced Study

The School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate institution of the University of London, is the UK's national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities and social sciences.

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

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Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki

The opened in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan in 1997.

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The arts

The arts refers to the theory and physical expression of creativity found in human societies and cultures.

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The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chadō (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life.

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Tokyo University of the Arts

or is an art school in Japan.

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Tomonobu Imamichi

(November 19, 1922 – October 13, 2012) was a Japanese philosopher who studied Chinese philosophy.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

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William Sturgis Bigelow

William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926), son of Henry Jacob Bigelow, was a prominent American collector of Japanese art.

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Yōga

is a style of paintings by Japanese artists, made in accordance with Western (European) traditional conventions, techniques and materials.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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Yokoyama Taikan

was the pseudonym of a major figure in pre-World War II Japanese painting.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okakura_Kakuzō

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