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1 Intro | West, the Government of Japan showed its appreciation
2 Intro | strongest young artists in Japan had grouped themselves about
3 Intro | classifying the art treasures of Japan, and to visit and study
4 Intro | itself, and through China in Japan.~Only those who are already
5 Intro | known that in the case of Japan the vital element in her
6 Intro | Asia that converges upon Japan, and finds free living expression
7 Intro | method of this expression Japan has~ever owed to China;
8 Intro | art-instincts of China and Japan must have been lowered in
9 Intro | work, the race of Yamato in Japan, the wonderful ethical genius
10 Range | the great privilege of Japan to realise this unity-in-complexity
11 Range | cost of expansion, made Japan the real repository of the
12 Range | exquisite home-life.~It is in Japan alone that the historic
13 Range | the present day to seek in Japan the fountain-head of their
14 Range | ancient knowledge.~Thus Japan is a museum of Asiatic civilisation;
15 Range | this tenacity that keeps Japan true to the Asiatic soul
16 Range | the name of a province in Japan.~Bugaku Music. - This means
17 Range | play. This bugaku music in Japan was developed in the Nara-Heian
18 Primit| THE PRIMITIVE ART OF JAPAN~THE origin of the Yamato
19 Primit| figure. Every family in Japan claims descent from the
20 Primit| geographical position of Japan would seem to have offered
21 Primit| Asia that her touch upon Japan has made always for new
22 Primit| into Moscow. And it is for Japan herself never to forget
23 Primit| province of Isé, in Central Japan. The temple of Idzumo is
24 Primit| who were sovereigns of Japan before the descent of the
25 Primit| on the northern coast of Japan. The temples of Isé and
26 Primit| an embassy, calling upon Japan to surrender. A peremptory
27 Primit| aggressive policy towards Japan.~
28 Confuc| over the art of primitive Japan, before Buddhism reached
29 Confuc| period, we have to turn to Japan, to the collections of the
30 Confuc| after his advent. Thus in Japan, as in China, Confucianism
31 Taoism| æsthetics in that land and in Japan.~Shakaku in the fifth century
32 Taoism| in India, and Horiuji in Japan.~Face to face with these,
33 Taoism| believed to have settled in Japan, where whole families claim
34 Buddhi| well known in China and Japan. In the second century of
35 Buddhi| and reaching China and Japan as the Esoteric doctrine,
36 Buddhi| the separation of ages, Japan is drawn closer than ever
37 Asuka | first Buddhist period in Japan begins with the formal introduction
38 Asuka | as known to this day in Japan. Of these, two kinds exist,
39 Asuka | when Buddhism first reached Japan, the Soga family held the
40 Asuka | establishment of Buddhism in Japan~becomes thus a matter of
41 Asuka | period, had migrated to Japan thirty-one years before
42 Asuka | epitomising the national life of Japan for thirteen centuries to
43 Asuka | artisans who flocked to Japan at that time. Another Kwannon,
44 Asuka | Tenji, 667 A.D. This era in Japan is much influenced by the
45 Nara | nobles and consolidated Japan under the immediate shadow
46 Nara | survives to this day in Japan, in a quaint folk-story
47 Nara | came from India, one from Japan, and one from the Celestial
48 Nara | Yang-tse at its base.~In Japan, the Emperor Tenji, who
49 Nara | sacrifice of foreign supremacy. Japan was growing in prosperity,
50 Nara | Choan, and returned again to Japan in the year 677. It was
51 Nara | the length and breadth of Japan, bearing that proclamation
52 Nara | named Bodhi, arrived in Japan, and being hailed by the
53 Heian | In~paragraph continues] Japan the new philosophical standpoint
54 Heian | 746. Its introduction into Japan dates similarly from Kukai,
55 Heian | through concentration. In Japan we distinguish three stages,
56 Fujiwa| had long found its way to Japan, till now the pent-up energy
57 Fujiwa| conscious dependence which Japan began to place on her own
58 Fujiwa| new era began, in which Japan strove to create a system
59 Fujiwa| religious emotion passed~over Japan in the Fujiwara epoch, and,
60 Fujiwa| Two places near Kobe, Japan.~
61 Kamaku| succession of military regents of Japan, after this date, were called
62 Ashika| still hear it played in Japan in the old costumes, to
63 Toyoto| place d’avantage in central Japan, was able to wedge himself
64 Toyoto| more than half baronial Japan. It was Hideyoshi who, as
65 Toyoto| whose towering ambition Japan was so much too small a
66 Tokuga| The spirit which secluded Japan from all foreign intercourse,
67 Tokuga| mannerism before it reached Japan.~The second important effort
68 Meiji | in an attempt to recall Japan to a sense of that unity
69 Meiji | or "The History of Mighty Japan," compiled by the order
70 Meiji | if an army were to invade Japan, with~paragraph continues]
71 Meiji | poetic pages the youth of Japan still learn the intensity
72 Meiji | ancestor-worship extant in Japan before Buddhism, but covered
73 Meiji | far-sighted penetration Japan owes much~of her modern
74 Meiji | statesmen who rebuilt~the new Japan were born; to the lands
75 Meiji | history. At this moment Japan, in the re-awakened consciousness
76 Meiji | the organisers of the new Japan. Not only in their armaments,
77 Meiji | new contest. Thus modern Japan holds a unique position
78 Meiji | of the Ashikagas, holds Japan to-day intact, in spite
79 Meiji | also, both of China and Japan, open up to us an area hitherto
80 Vista | making Takakura, Emperor of Japan, remove his sleeping-robes
81 Vista | synonym for prosperity; and Japan, the Fatherland of the race
82 Vista | self-recognition that re-made Japan, and enabled her to weather
83 Vista | opening out before them. Even Japan cannot, in the tangled skein
84 Vista | say. With the Revolution, Japan, it is true, returns upon
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