Okakura kakuzo biography
- A Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs.
- Okakura Kakuzō, also known as Okakura Tenshin, 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.
- Okakura Kakuzō was an art critic who had a great influence upon modern Japanese art.
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Okakura Tenshin (whose childhood first name was Kakuzo) was born in Yokohama, the second son of Okakura Kan'emon and Okakura Kono. His parents were raw silk merchants who managed the shop called “Ishikawaya.” Tenshin enrolled in the Literature Department at the University of Tokyo and studied politics and economics. He met Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, who had come to Japan to teach philosophy at the University.
After joining the Ministry of Education, Tenshin and Fenollosa started visiting old shrines and temples in Nara and Kyoto areas. They researched old art works, such as Guze Kannon (the Guze Goddess of Mercy Statue) in the Yumedono Hall of Horyuji Temple. In 1889, Tenshin was appointed as a director of the Imperial Museum and head of the Department of Arts at the Museum. In 1896, Tenshin became a member of the Old Shrines and Temples Preservation Association and laid the foundations for preserving cultural properties.
In 1890, Tenshin became President of Tokyo Fine Arts School (the present Tokyo University of the Arts), which he had helped to establish. He wished to creat
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Okakura Kakuzō
Japanese scholar and art critic (1863–1913)
In this Japanese name, the surname is Okakura.
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 the Simple Life (1906).[1][2] 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.
Early life and education
The second son of Okakura Kan'emon, a former Fukui Domain treasurer turned silk merchant, and Kan'emon's second wife, Kakuzō 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
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岡倉覚三 Okakura Kakuzō (1862-1913)
(also known as 岡倉天心 Okakura Tenshin)
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History of Japanese Art
Lecture at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, 1890 to 1892
by Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin)
Conclusion
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