Ideals of the East : With Special Reference to the Art of Japan

by Okakura, Kakuzo

• ISBN13: 9781933330259
• ISBN10: 1933330252
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-20
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

The 1904 book that famously declared "Asia is one" was among the first studies in English to reference Zen as it explored the roots of Japanese beauty. Like the author's The Book of Tea, this volume emphasized the spiritual ideals of Asian, and especially Japanese, art. Kakuzo Okakura (1863a??1913) was an administrator and scholar whose writings helped shape the West's early views of Japan and Asia.

Author Biography

Kakuzo Okakura (1863-1913) an assistant curator at Boston's Museum of Fine

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Range of Ideals	p. 9
The Primitive Art of Japan	p. 17
Confucianism-Northern China	p. 23
Laoism and Taoism-Southern China	p. 33
Buddhism and Indian Art	p. 43
The Asuka Period (550-700 A.D.)	p. 55
The Nara Period (700-800 A.D.)	p. 69
The Heian Period (800-900 A.D.)	p. 79
The Fujiwara Period (900-1200 A.D.)	p. 87
The Kamakura Period (1200-1400 A.D.)	p. 95
Ashikaga Period (1400-1600 A.D.)	p. 101
Toyotomi and Early Tokugawa Period (1600-1700 A.D.)	p. 113
Later Tokugawa Period	p. 119
The Meiji Period	p. 125
The Vista	p. 141
Chronology of Asian Art	p. 147
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