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...Urs Matthias Zachmann Duke University Press 2007 Blowing Up a Double Portrait in Black and White: The Concept of Asia in the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Okakura Tenshin Urs Matthias Zachmann Questioning the East/West Binary in Meiji Intellectual History...

...Christine M. E. Guth 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Charles Longfellow and Okakura Kakuz¯o: Cultural Cross-Dressing in the Colonial Context Christine M. E. Guth In the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century colonial world, where pho- tography...

.... In the second half of this essay I will focus on the St. Louis fair’s fine arts exhibit to suggest that Okakura Kakuz¯o’s description of the Japanese as the “sole guardians of the art inheritance of Asia” worked to empower Japan and foster an image...

... command over representations. Christine Guth’s contribution, “Charles Longfellow and Okakura Ka- kuz¯o: Cultural Cross-Dressing in the Colonial Context,” reveals how the self-conscious act of clothing the body (including tattooing) was enlisted...

... book on Japanese art, The Ideals of the East, art positions 8:3 Winter 2000 734 educator Okakura Kakuz¯o had already informed European and American readers that “Japan is a museum of Asiatic civilization; and yet...

... 26 art activist Okakura Kakuz¯o (1862–1913) when he described Japan as the “museum of Asiatic civilization.”63 However,Noma by no means subscribed to Okakura’s belief in a basic Asian spiritual unity,summed up in Okakura’s...

... Tagore and Kazuo Okakura, one of Japan’s most important nationalist intellectuals. They were about the same age and knew each other well, Okakura having spent a year (1901) in India in the Tagore family’s house in Calcutta. As Christopher...

...-called modular European Enlight- enment and its homogenization of historical, linguistic, or “cultural” dif- ferences? The inter-Asian friendship Dayal traces between Tagore and the nationalist Japanese intellectual Kazuo Okakura sets the stage...

... of Asia for Meiji Japan. In a close, defamiliarizing reading of the classic and disseminative debate between Okakura Tenshin and Fukuzawa Yukichi, Zachmann argues against the dominant reading that they are, in fact, polar opposites, representing...

... The Japanese Nation, as well as Bushido and Okakura Kakuz¯o’s The Ideal of the East and The Book of Tea, are texts that were writ- ten in English in the early twentieth century attempting to articulate (and to justify)Japan’s newly attained colonial...

...). The peculiar combination of technical ostentation and pan-Asian aesthetic panoply recalls the orientalism of Okakura Kakuz¯o’s idealized East, in which Japan occupies a unique position simultaneously as missionary bearing the gospel of civilization...

... in the Meiji scholarly art world of Okakura Tenshin (1862 – 1913) and Ernest Fenollosa (1853 – 1908) that not only naïve Europeans and US citizens were influenced by this conceited Japanese cultural jugger- naut. Chinese reformers and revolutionaries...

... as the True Pure Land sect. Otani was to prove one of It¯o’s most important clients, and It¯o’s contact with him and other Japanese priests involved in the pan-Asian Buddhist movement active in Calcutta, as well as Tagore and Okakura...

... of powerless- ness; similarly, for Takeuchi, Asian countries may achieve a form of connec- tion whose groundless ground is the common yet un- sharable experience of humiliation, failure, and despair. This powerlessness of literature distantly echoes Okakura Tenshin s famous claim that Asia is one. * * * Thus...

..., which assure the tourist a delightful trip at minimum expense of time and money. —Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, advertisement, 1939 Okakura Tenshin, the prominent turn-of-the-century cultural ideologue...

..., an organization first formed by Taikan’s mentor Okakura Tenshin (1863 – 1913) in 1898, and announced that their affiliated juried exhibition would open in autumn. This exhibition, known as the Inten (an abbreviation of Saik Nihon Bijutsu-­in tenrankai...

.... 350 (Tokyo: Shibund, 1995). 13. On this issue in the context of Meiji-­period Nihonga, see Victoria Weston, Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle, Michigan Monograph Series in Japa- nese Studies, vol...

... proposed by Okakura Tenshin in his 1904 English work The Ideals of the East.26 They combined to suggest that Japan should both transcend the backward Asia and preserve the best essence of Asia. Both theories aimed to decentralize China...

... that the Renaissance was a culture of shadows and death), he let multiple divergences and non-­Western appropriations to open up normative and historical claims. Hanada’s imaginative diagram of bipolarity was more radical than Okakura Tenshin’s more static...

... different types of responses in the antinomy between Fuku- zawa Yukichi and Okakura Tenshin, but in general one could argue that until the 1930s, the enlightenment narrative associated with thinkers such as Fukuzawa was dominant...