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Custom into Tradition. Is this how culture is modernized?. Ernest F. Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin. Horyuji (founded by Prince Shotoku). Yumedono. Guze Kannon.
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Custom into Tradition Is this how culture is modernized?
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.
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
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
Symbolic--the mere search Classical Romantic Suiko (Asuka: 6-7th c) Shomu (Nara, 700s) Higashiyama (1480s) Hegel and Herder? The Idea