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