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Modernizing Culture through Tradition: Insights from Fenollosa and Okakura

This exploration delves into how Ernest F. Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin interpreted the relationship between traditional Japanese culture and modernity. The examination contrasts their views on Japan's identity within the broader context of world history versus a self-contained national narrative. Key artifacts such as the Guze Kannon and ancient Western art forms are discussed, revealing how cultural categories can be redefined. The study aims to illustrate the dynamic interplay between historical and modern cultural epistemologies, set against the backdrop of significant Japanese art periods.

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Modernizing Culture through Tradition: Insights from Fenollosa and Okakura

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  1. Custom into Tradition Is this how culture is modernized?

  2. Ernest F. Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin

  3. Horyuji (founded by Prince Shotoku)

  4. Yumedono

  5. Guze Kannon Making 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.

  6. Guze Kannon (Fenollosa) • Archaic Greek art • Han nose • Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa • Archaic stiffness of Egyptian art • Gothic statue from Amiens Source: Mt Holyoke College Interdepartmental images

  7. 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

  8. Asuka (Suiko) period (552-645) • Buddhism • Sui/Tang governing structure • Chinese writing system • Statuary, painting, Buddhist architecture

  9. Kudara Kannon Miroku Buddha

  10. Symbolic--the mere search Classical Romantic Suiko (Asuka: 6-7th c) Shomu (Nara, 700s) Higashiyama (1480s) Hegel and Herder? The Idea

  11. Higashiyama--Ginkaku-ji (Temple of the Silver Pavilion)

  12. Higashiyama--Ryoanji

  13. Higashiyama--Sesshu

  14. Nihonga and Yôga

  15. Yokoyama Taikan and Wada Eisaku

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