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Nihon Bijutsuin ( 日本美術院 , lit. "Japan Visual Arts Academy" ) is a non-governmental artistic organization in Japan dedicated to Nihonga (Japanese style painting). The academy promotes the art of Nihonga through a biennial exhibition, the Inten Exhibition.

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68-548: The Nihon Bijutsuin was founded by Okakura Tenshin in 1898, together with a group of artists, including Hashimoto Gahō , Yokoyama Taikan , Shimomura Kanzan , Hishida Shunsō and several others, in response to Okakura being ousted from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts . Nihon Bijutsuin moved with Okakura to Izura, Ibaraki (now the city of Ibaraki ) in 1906. However, Okakura was soon recruited by Ernest Fenollosa to assist in his efforts to introduce Chinese and Japanese arts to

136-614: A printing process. It has been an important artistic medium for several centuries, in the West and East Asia. Major historic techniques include engraving , woodcut and etching in the West, and woodblock printing in East Asia, where the Japanese ukiyo-e style is the most important. The 19th-century invention of lithography and then photographic techniques have partly replaced the historic techniques. Older prints can be divided into

204-566: A Buddhist temple. After the abolishment of the feudal system in 1871, his family moved from Yokohama to Tokyo. In 1875, Okakura joined them and won a scholarship to the Tokyo Institute of Foreign Languages. Quickly after, the school was renamed to Tokyo Imperial University . It was at this prestigious academy that he first met and studied under the Harvard -educated art historian Ernest Fenollosa . In 1886, Okakura became secretary to

272-708: A book or album are called "miniatures", whether for a Western illuminated manuscript or in Persian miniature and its Turkish equivalent, or Indian paintings of various types. Watercolour is the western version of painting in paper; forms using gouache , chalk, and similar mediums without brushes are really forms of drawing. Drawing is one of the major forms of the visual arts, and painters need drawing skills as well. Common instruments include: graphite pencils , pen and ink , inked brushes , wax color pencils , crayons , charcoals , chalk , pastels , markers , stylus , or various metals like silverpoint . There are

340-445: A different medium – for instance, a painting – but rather an image designed from inception as a print. An individual print is also referred to as an impression. Prints are created from a single original surface, known technically as a matrix . Common types of matrices include: plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching ; stone, used for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts and fabric in

408-420: A double standard of judgment for works of art and for useful objects". This was among theoreticians; it has taken far longer for the art trade and popular opinion to catch up. However, over the same period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the movement of prices in the art market was in the opposite direction, with works from the fine arts drawing much further ahead of those from the decorative arts. In

476-421: A fine art setting, such as studio pottery and studio glass , with equivalents in other materials. One definition of fine art is "a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic and intellectual purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture." In that sense, there are conceptual differences between

544-612: A lesser extent the carvers of engraved gems . Several individuals in these groups were very famous, and copied and remembered for centuries after their deaths. The cult of the individual artistic genius, which was an important part of the Renaissance theoretical basis for the distinction between "fine" and other art, drew on classical precedent, especially as recorded by Pliny the Elder . Some other types of object, in particular Ancient Greek pottery , are often signed by their makers or

612-413: A number of subcategories of drawing, including cartooning and creating comics . Mosaics are images formed with small pieces of stone or glass, called tesserae . They can be decorative or functional. An artist who designs and makes mosaics is called a mosaic artist or a mosaicist. Ancient Greeks and Romans created realistic mosaics. Mythological subjects, or scenes of hunting or other pursuits of

680-689: A similar system.) In that system, an artist or artisan was a skilled maker or practitioner, a work of art was the useful product of skilled work, and the appreciation of the arts was integrally connected with their role in the rest of life. "Art", in other words, meant approximately the same thing as the Greek word "techne", or in English "skill", a sense that has survived in phrases like "the art of war", "the art of love", and "the art of medicine". Similar ideas have been expressed by Paul Oskar Kristeller , Pierre Bourdieu , and Terry Eagleton (e.g. The Ideology of

748-408: A valid technical term, especially in archaeology . "Fine wares" are high-quality pottery, often painted, moulded or otherwise decorated, and in many periods distinguished from "coarse wares", which are basic utilitarian pots used by the mass of the population, or in the kitchen rather than for more formal purposes. Even when, as with porcelain figurines, a piece of pottery has no practical purpose,

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816-474: A week or so, Kakuzo felt a little better and was able to talk with people, but on August 25, he had a heart attack and spent several days in great pain. Surrounded by his family, relatives and his disciples, he passed away on September 2." In Japan, Okakura, along with Fenollosa, is credited with "saving" Nihonga , or painting done with traditional Japanese technique, as it was threatened with replacement by Western-style painting, or " Yōga ", whose chief advocate

884-507: Is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner". Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters. Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these; characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous, improvised at

952-475: Is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating – or indoctrinating – citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue. Cinematography is the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for

1020-481: Is registered as a national monument. Fine art In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts ) is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression , distinguishing it from popular art , decorative art or applied art , which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork. In the aesthetic theories developed in the Italian Renaissance ,

1088-776: The Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo, followed by a tour around Japan for four months, at ten different locations. The sizes of the works which can be displayed is fixed at under 150 x 75 cm for rectangular works and under 106 x 106 cm for square works. The Fall Exhibition is held in September for two weeks at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , followed by a year-long tour to 10 different locations around Japan. The Fall Exhibition contains larger works, with 225 x 180 cm as

1156-688: The Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, its popular usage, particularly in the UK , developed as a synonym for all contemporary art that does not practice the traditional skills of painting and sculpture . Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. The common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and

1224-885: The art trade the term retains some currency for objects from before roughly 1900 and may be used to define the scope of auctions or auction house departments and the like. The term also remains in use in tertiary education , appearing in the names of colleges, faculties, and courses. In the English-speaking world this is mostly in North America, but the same is true of the equivalent terms in other European languages, such as beaux-arts in French or bellas artes in Spanish. The conceptual separation of arts and decorative arts or crafts that have often dominated in Europe and

1292-474: The cinema . It is closely related to the art of still photography , though many additional issues arise when both the camera and elements of the scene may be in motion. Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood , or other major studio systems . An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio . Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to

1360-492: The pyramids of Egypt and the Roman Colosseum are cultural symbols, and are important links in public consciousness, even when scholars have discovered much about past civilizations through other means. Cities, regions, and cultures continue to identify themselves with, and are known by, their architectural monuments. With some modern exceptions, pottery is not considered as fine art, but "fine pottery" remains

1428-570: The Aesthetic ), though the point of invention is often placed earlier, in the Italian Renaissance ; Anthony Blunt notes that the term arti di disegno , a similar concept, emerged in Italy in the mid-16th century. But it can be argued that the classical world , from which very little theoretical writing on art survives, in practice had similar distinctions. The names of artists preserved in literary sources are Greek painters and sculptors, and to

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1496-474: The Americas Art of Oceania According to some writers, the concept of a distinct category of fine art is an invention of the early modern period in the West. Larry Shiner in his The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (2003) locates the invention in the 18th century: "There was a traditional "system of the arts" in the West before the eighteenth century. (Other traditional cultures still have

1564-647: The East to him". Writing in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War , Okakura commented that the Westerner regarded Japan as "barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace", and began to call her civilized only when "she began to commit wholesale slaughter on the Manchurian battlefields". Okakura's final work, The White Fox , written under the patronage of Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1912,

1632-616: The East with Special Reference to the Art of Japan , published on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War , is famous for its opening paragraph in which he sees a spiritual unity throughout Asia, which distinguishes it from the West: 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

1700-595: The Institute is currently devoted exclusively to Nihonga painting. Nihon Bijutsuin should not be confused with the Japan Art Academy or the Japan Academy of Arts , which are different organizations. The most important function of Nihon Bijutsuin is the organization and promotion of the inten ( 院展 ) biennial fine arts exhibitions. The Spring Exhibition is held in early April, for two weeks at

1768-508: The Muses"). Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic, and to music, used as a form of expression , social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance is also used to describe methods of nonverbal communication (see body language ) between humans or animals ( bee dance , patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance), motion in inanimate objects ("the leaves danced in

1836-482: The Simple Life (1906). Written in English, and in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War , it decried Western caricaturing of the Japanese, and of Asians more generally, and expressed the fear that Japan gained respect only to the extent that it adopted the barbarities of Western militarism. The second son of Okakura Kan'emon, a former Fukui Domain treasurer turned silk merchant, and Kan'emon's second wife, Kakuzō

1904-578: The US is not shared by all other cultures. But traditional Chinese art had comparable distinctions, distinguishing within Chinese painting between the mostly landscape literati painting of scholar gentlemen and the artisans of the schools of court painting and sculpture. Although high status was also given to many things that would be seen as craft objects in the West, in particular ceramics, jade carving , weaving, and embroidery, this by no means extended to

1972-683: The Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal, which is the common thought-inheritance of every Asiatic race, enabling them to produce all the great religions of the world, and distinguishing them from those maritime peoples of the Mediterranean and the Baltic, who love to dwell on the Particular, and to search out

2040-503: The West, although with less frequency. Fine arts film is a term that encompasses motion pictures and the field of film as a fine art form. A fine arts movie theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing such movies. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras , or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects . Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures , which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film

2108-476: The White Disaster itself." In The Book of Tea , written and published in 1906, has been described as "the earliest lucid English-language account of Zen Buddhism and its relation to the arts". Okakura argued that "Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life". [Teaism] insulates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of

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2176-487: The art of the Chinese, the art of the Yoruba is also often composed of what would ordinarily be considered in the West to be craft production. Some of its most admired manifestations, such as textiles, fall in this category. Painting as a fine art means applying paint to a flat surface (as opposed for example to painting a sculpture, or a piece of pottery), typically using several colours. Prehistoric painting that has survived

2244-609: The artist is given primacy, regardless of the means through which it is expressed. The term is typically only used for Western art from the Renaissance onwards, although similar genre distinctions can apply to the art of other cultures, especially those of East Asia . The set of "fine arts" are sometimes also called the "major arts", with "minor arts" equating to the decorative arts. This would typically be for medieval and ancient art. Art of Central Asia Art of East Asia Art of South Asia Art of Southeast Asia Art of Europe Art of Africa Art of

2312-570: The best Persian carpets , architectural tiling and other decorative media, more consistently than happened in the West. Latin American art was dominated by European colonialism until the 20th-century, when indigenous art began to reassert itself inspired by the Constructivist Movement , which reunited arts with crafts based upon socialist principles. In Africa, Yoruba art often has a political and spiritual function. As with

2380-430: The case of screen-printing . But there are many other kinds. Multiple nearly identical prints can be called an edition . In modern times each print is often signed and numbered forming a "limited edition". Prints may also be published in book form, as artist's books . A single print could be the product of one or multiple techniques. Calligraphy is a type of visual art. A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice

2448-575: The doctors say is the usual complaint of the twentieth century— Bright's disease ," he wrote a friend in June 1913. "I have eaten things in various parts of the globe—too varied for the hereditary notions of my stomach and kidneys. However I am getting well again and I am thinking of going to China in September." In August, 1913, "Kakuzo insisted on going to his mountain villa in Akakura , and finally his wife, daughter and his sister took him there by train. For

2516-441: The dominating themes in fine-art photography. Architecture is frequently considered a fine art, especially if its aesthetic components are spotlighted – in contrast to structural-engineering or construction-management components. Architectural works are perceived as cultural and political symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations often are known primarily through their architectural achievements. Such buildings as

2584-424: The fine art Old Master print and popular prints , with book illustrations and other practical images such as maps somewhere in the middle. Except in the case of monotyping , the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a print. Each print is considered an original, as opposed to a copy. The reasoning behind this is that the print is not a reproduction of another work of art in

2652-417: The fine arts and the decorative arts or applied arts (these two terms covering largely the same media). As far as the consumer of the art was concerned, the perception of aesthetic qualities required a refined judgment usually referred to as having good taste , which differentiated fine art from popular art and entertainment. The word "fine" does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but

2720-409: The fine arts, there was a hierarchy of genres based on the amount of creative imagination required, with history painting placed higher than still life . Historically, the five main fine arts were painting , sculpture , architecture , music , and poetry . Other "minor or subsidiary arts" were also included, especially performing arts such as theatre and dance , which were counted as "among

2788-519: The growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term ποίησις ( poiesis , "to make") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as sound symbolism, phonaesthetics and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. In the United States an academic course of study in fine art may include

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2856-426: The highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist's imagination, unrestricted by any of the practical considerations involved in, say, making and decorating a teapot . It was also considered important that making the artwork did not involve dividing the work between different individuals with specialized skills, as might be necessary with a piece of furniture, for example. Even within

2924-531: The importance to the modern world of Asian culture , attempting to bring its influence to realms of art and literature that, in his day, were largely dominated by Western culture . In 1906, he was invited by William Sturgis Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and became the Curator of its Department of Japanese and Chinese Art in 1910. His 1903 book on Asian artistic and cultural history, The Ideals of

2992-466: The lifeless conservatism" of traditionalists and the "equally uninspired imitation of western art" fostered by early Meiji enthusiasts. Limiting himself to more sympathetic aspects of art in the West, at the school, and in a new periodical Kokka , Okakura sought to rehabilitate ancient and native arts, honoring their ideals and exploring their possibilities. When, in 1897, it became clear that European methods were to be given ever increasing prominence in

3060-432: The making of it is typically a collaborative and semi-industrial one, involving many participants with different skills. Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping hard or plastic material, commonly stone (either rock or marble ), metal , or wood . Some sculptures are created directly by carving ; others are assembled, built up and fired , welded , molded , or cast . Because sculpture involves

3128-551: The means, not the end, of life. In his subsequent book, The Awakening of Japan , published in 1904, he argued that "the glory of the West is the humiliation of Asia." This was an early expression of Pan-Asianism . In this book Okakura also noted that Japan's rapid modernization was not universally applauded in Asia: ″We have become so eager to identify ourselves with European civilization instead of Asiatic that our continental neighbors regard us as renegades—nay, even as an embodiment of

3196-691: The minister of education and was put in charge of musical affairs. Later in the same year he was named to the Imperial Art Commission and sent abroad to study fine arts in the Western world. After his return from Europe and the United States, in 1887 he helped found, and a year later became director of, the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校 Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō ). The new arts school represented "the first serious reaction to

3264-491: The moment of writing. Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created to fulfill the creative vision of the artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism and commercial photography. Photojournalism visually communicates stories and ideas, mainly in print and digital media. Fine art photography is created primarily as an expression of the artist's vision, but has also been important in advancing certain causes. Depiction of nudity has been one of

3332-500: The most ancient and universal." In practice, outside education, the concept is typically only applied to the visual arts . The old master print and drawing were included as related forms to painting, just as prose forms of literature were to poetry. Today, the range of what would be considered fine arts (in so far as the term remains in use) is commonly includes additional modern forms, such as film , photography , and video production / editing , as well as traditional forms made in

3400-437: The owner of the workshop, probably partly to advertise their products. The decline of the concept of "fine art" is dated by George Kubler and others to around 1880. When it "fell out of fashion" as, by about 1900, folk art was also coming to be regarded as significant. Finally, at least in circles interested in art theory , ""fine art" was driven out of use by about 1920 by the exponents of industrial design ... who opposed

3468-407: The purity of the discipline according to traditional European canons. Except in the case of architecture, where a practical utility was accepted, this definition originally excluded the "useful" applied or decorative arts, and the products of what were regarded as crafts . In contemporary practice, these distinctions and restrictions have become essentially meaningless, as the concept or intention of

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3536-568: The school curriculum, he resigned his directorship. Six months later he renewed the effort, as he saw it, to draw on western art without impairing national inspiration in the Nihon Bijutsuin (日本美術院, lit. "Japan Visual Arts Academy"), founded with Hashimoto Gahō and Yokoyama Taikan and thirty-seven other leading artists. At the same time, Okakura had opposed the Shintoist Haibutsu Kishaku movement which, in

3604-460: The social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. None of this, he suggested, was appreciated by the Westerner. In his "sleek complacency", the Westerner views the tea ceremony as "but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of

3672-523: The sonic qualities of timbre and texture (which are sometimes termed the "color" of a musical sound). Different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. Music is performed with a vast range of instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping; there are solely instrumental pieces, solely vocal pieces (such as songs without instrumental accompaniment) and pieces that combine singing and instruments. The word derives from Greek μουσική ( mousike , "art of

3740-480: The upper limit. Okakura Tenshin Okakura Kakuzō ( 岡倉 覚三 , February 14, 1863 – September 2, 1913) , also known as Okakura Tenshin ( 岡倉 天心 ) , was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs. Outside Japan, he is chiefly renowned for The Book of Tea : A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and

3808-532: The use of materials that can be moulded or modulated, it is considered one of the plastic arts . The majority of public art is sculpture. Many sculptures together in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden . Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery ) from ancient cultures; conversely, traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture

3876-707: The wake of the Meiji Restoration had sought to expel Buddhism from Japan. With Ernest Fenollosa, he worked to repair damaged Buddhist temples, images and texts. Okakura was a high-profile urbanite who retained an international sense of self. He wrote all of his main works in English . Okakura researched Japan's traditional art and traveled to Europe , the United States and China , and lived two years in India during which he engaged in dialogue with Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore . Okakura emphasised

3944-524: The wealthy, were popular as the centrepieces of a larger geometric design, with strongly emphasized borders. Early Christian basilicas from the 4th century onwards were decorated with wall and ceiling mosaics. The most famous Byzantine basilicas decorated with mosaics are the Basilica of San Vitale from Ravenna (Italy) and Hagia Sophia from Istanbul (Turkey). Printmaking covers the making of images on paper that can be reproduced multiple times by

4012-452: The western world via the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , and soon lost interest in guiding the new organization. When Okakura died in 1913, the group dissolved. Nihon Bijutsuin was resurrected a year later in 1914 under Yokoyama Taikan, who relocated it back to Yanaka , Tokyo. In 1920, separate sections were established for Japanese sculpture and for western-style ( yōga painting ), These separate sections were abolished in 1960, and currently

4080-632: The wind"), and certain musical genres. In sports, gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are dance disciplines while the kata of the martial arts are often compared to dances. Modern Western theatre is dominated by realism , including drama and comedy . Another popular Western form is musical theatre . Classical forms of theatre, including Greek and Roman drama , classic English drama ( Shakespeare and Marlowe included), and French theater ( Molière included), are still performed today. In addition, performances of classic Eastern forms such as Noh and Kabuki can be found in

4148-463: The workers who created these objects, who typically remained even more anonymous than in the West. Similar distinctions were made in Japanese and Korean art . In Islamic art , the highest status was generally given to calligraphy , architects and the painters of Persian miniatures and related traditions, but these were still very often court employees . Typically they also supplied designs for

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4216-579: Was also one of a trio of Japanese artists who introduced the wash technique to Abanindranath Tagore , the father of modern Indian watercolor. As part of the Izura Institute of Arts & Culture, Ibaraki University manages Rokkakudō , an hexagonal wooden retreat overlooking the sea along the Izura coast in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture , that was designed by Okakura and built in 1905. It

4284-580: Was an English-language libretto for the Boston Opera House. The libretto incorporates elements from both kabuki plays and Wagner 's epic Tannhäuser and may be understood, metaphorically, as an expression of Okakura's hoped-for reconciliation of East and West. Charles Martin Loeffler agreed to Garner's request to put the poetic drama to music, but the project was never staged. Okakura's health deteriorated in his later years. "My ailment

4352-512: Was applied to natural rock surfaces, and wall painting, especially on wet plaster in the fresco technique was a major form until recently. Portable paintings on wood panel or canvas have been the most important in the Western world for several centuries, mostly in tempera or oil painting . Asian painting has more often used paper, with the monochrome ink and wash painting tradition dominant in East Asia . Paintings that are intended to go in

4420-401: Was artist Kuroda Seiki . In fact this role, most assiduously pressed after Okakura's death by his followers, is not taken seriously by art scholars today, nor is the idea that oil painting posed any serious "threat" to traditional Japanese painting. Yet Okakura was certainly instrumental in modernizing Japanese aesthetics, having recognized the need to preserve Japan's cultural heritage, and thus

4488-438: Was brightly painted, and this has been lost. Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to a strict and focused practice of idea-based art that often defied traditional visual criteria associated with the visual arts in its presentation as text. However, through its association with

4556-593: Was named for the corner warehouse (角蔵) in which he was born, but later changed the spelling of his name to different Kanji meaning "awakened boy" (覚三). Okakura learned English while attending Yoshisaburō, a school operated by a Christian missionary, Dr. James Curtis Hepburn , of the Hepburn romanization system. Here, he became well-versed in the foreign language but couldn't read Kanji, the characters of his homeland. As such, his father got him to concurrently study western culture at Yoshisaburō and traditional Japanese in

4624-505: Was one of the major reformers during Japan's period of modernization beginning with the Meiji Restoration . Outside Japan, Okakura influenced a number of important figures, directly or indirectly, who include Swami Vivekananda , philosopher Martin Heidegger , poet Ezra Pound , and especially poet Rabindranath Tagore and art benefactor, collector and museum founder Isabella Stewart Gardner , who were close personal friends of his. He

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