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1 Primit| sword-soul on the solemn art of Ashikaga. And as the stream courses
2 Taoism| art, though the Sung and Ashikaga artists have added the beauty
3 Asuka | Kamakura, to that of the Ashikaga Shogunate.~The Ashikaga
4 Asuka | Ashikaga Shogunate.~The Ashikaga Period, 1394 to 1587 A.D. -
5 Kamaku| on the one hand and the Ashikaga and Tokugawa epochs on the
6 Ashika| ASHIKAGA PERIOD~1400-1600 A.D. ~THE
7 Ashika| PERIOD~1400-1600 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga period is named from that
8 Ashika| Japanese since the days of Ashikaga, steeped as it were in the
9 Ashika| imposes a limitation on the Ashikaga art, which devotes itself
10 Ashika| ever since the days of the Ashikaga masters, though subjected
11 Ashika| itself. Thus the art of Ashikaga bears an entirely different
12 Ashika| epoch. Later, as here in the Ashikaga period, we have the higher
13 Ashika| Gnan, or "insight."~The Ashikaga ideal owes its origin to
14 Ashika| down by the Kamakura and Ashikaga monks was the Southern,
15 Ashika| star - was the ideal of the Ashikaga knight. Everything was sought
16 Ashika| expressive of Zen ideas.~The Ashikaga aristocracy, exquisites
17 Ashika| required the artists of Ashikaga, representing the Indian
18 Ashika| unparalleled by any other. For the Ashikaga Shoguns were great patrons
19 Ashika| the consideration of the Ashikaga era without some reference
20 Ashika| art-impulse, and it is during the Ashikaga period that our national
21 Ashika| towards the opening of the Ashikaga~period, to those No-dances,
22 Toyoto| PERIOD~1600-1700 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga rule, weakened by the factions
23 Toyoto| movements, and replace the Ashikaga Shoguns in his own person
24 Toyoto| severe refinement of the Ashikaga princes was distasteful,
25 Toyoto| simpler dwellings even of the Ashikaga Shoguns. This was the age
26 Toyoto| strove to return to the Ashikaga ideal. His court painters -
27 Toyoto| bold conceptions of the Ashikaga masters. True to the instinct
28 Toyoto| best of all the spirit of Ashikaga in its purity, while Korin,
29 Tokuga| his old school during the Ashikaga period. In thus standing
30 Tokuga| imagery based on Jasoku of the Ashikaga period; and here, finally,
31 Meiji | the silver moonshine of Ashikaga - returns upon us here in
32 Meiji | inaugurated the revival of the Ashikaga and Sung masters in their
33 Vista | lofty abstinence of that Ashikaga knighthood who sought with
34 Vista | art to nature which the Ashikaga inaugurated has become now
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