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Custom into Tradition
Is this how culture is modernized?
Ernest F. Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin
Horyuji (founded by Prince Shotoku)
Yumedono
Guze KannonMaking modern: categorizing existing artifacts into a new epistemology. “A difference between Okakura and Fenollosa was how Japan was to be located in its expanded realm, as the past of Europe (world history) or as a national unit, with an autonomous past, present, and future.” Tanaka, “Imaging History,” p. 29.
Guze Kannon (Fenollosa)• Archaic Greek art
• Han nose• Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
• Archaic stiffness of Egyptian art
• Gothic statue from Amiens
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Source: Mt Holyoke College Interdepartmental images
Guze Kannon (Okakura)
• Spider webs from Higashiyama period (1480s)
• Wrapped in pieces of sutra
• Solemnity and serenity
• Style common in Suiko period (593-628)
• Head and limb large; pronounced muscles around nose
Asuka (Suiko) period (552-645)
• Buddhism• Sui/Tang governing structure
• Chinese writing system
• Statuary, painting, Buddhist architecture
Kudara Kannon Miroku Buddha
Hegel and Herder? The Idea
• Symbolic--the mere search
• Classical
• Romantic
• Suiko (Asuka: 6-7th c)
• Shomu (Nara, 700s)
• Higashiyama (1480s)
Higashiyama--Ginkaku-ji
(Temple of the Silver Pavilion)
Higashiyama--Ryoanji
Higashiyama--Sesshu
Nihonga and Yôga
Yokoyama Taikan and Wada Eisaku