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1 Heian | Sakya, as representations (1) of Power, which is knowledge; (
2 Nara | once in the Taira epoch in 1180, when the head and hand
3 Toyoto | dignity in the empire in 1586 A.D., and to whose towering
4 Asuka | way of Cochin China, in 159 A.D. These teachers translated
5 Toyoto | memorable earthquake of 1596 and subsequent~destructive
6 Toyoto | peninsula on his death in 1598.~Like their illustrious
7 Toyoto | storming of the Osaka Castle in 1615, unified the administrative
8 Intro | RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKÂNANDA.~17 BORIC PARA LANE,~BAGH BAZAAR,
9 Meiji | formally with the accession in 1868 of the present Emperor,
10 Tokuga | the Meiji restoration in 1881, the Kyoto artists were
11 Intro | Japanese Government in the year 1886, to study the art history
12 Meiji | bestowed by the monarch in 1892 - a word from the throne
13 Intro | Parliament of Religions in 1893, Orthodox Hinduism has again
14 Nara(1)| and Non-Living." Longmans, 1902.~
15 Heian | Power, which is knowledge; (2) of Wealth, which is creative
16 Buddhi | at least as~early as from 2000 to 700 B.C. They are supplementary
17 Asuka | built in wood by Rioken, in 217 A.D., must have been modelled
18 Confuc | he was killed~in the year 23 A.D. The story of his death
19 Taoism | part of the Six Dynasties (265 to 618 A.D.) represents
20 Heian | which is creative force; (3) of Mercy, which is Divine
21 Fujiwa | Hinduism. He died at the age of 32.~Ramanuja. - A saint and
22 Heian | descending upon man; and (4) of Work, or Karma, the
23 Asuka | China, where he arrived in 401 A.D. He devoted himself
24 Confuc | Confucius (B.C. 551 to B.C. 479), at the end of the Shu
25 Asuka | Dowager Ko constructed in 516 A.D. This place is still
26 Ashika | country as a monk in A.D. 520. But it had first to assimilate
27 Asuka | THE ASUKA PERIOD~550 TO 700 A.D. ~THE first Buddhist
28 Confuc | the lot of Confucius (B.C. 551 to B.C. 479), at the end
29 Asuka | Donyei and Doshin, arrived in 554 A.D. Chiso, a Southern Chinese,
30 Asuka | temples in 584. The year 573 is remarkable for the birth
31 Asuka | erected Buddhist temples in 584. The year 573 is remarkable
32 Asuka | Tennoji in Osaka.~It was in 588 that the disputes between
33 Asuka | authenticate begin about the year 59~ ./. paragraph continues]
34 Asuka | Emperor. Her long reign, from 593 to 628 A.D., with Prince
35 Asuka | prince, bearing the date of 600, and~another trinity of
36 Asuka | death of Prince Wumayado in 621 A.D., was the signal for
37 Asuka | Yakshi, bearing the date of 625, the height of each, including
38 Asuka | long reign, from 593 to 628 A.D., with Prince Wumayado
39 Asuka | a Buddhist scripture. In 64 A.D. Meitei, a Hâng Emperor,
40 Nara | beginning a new régime in 645, which lasted till the Fujiwaras,
41 Asuka | accession of the Emperor Tenji, 667 A.D. This era in Japan is
42 Asuka | the Gettaes, returning in 67 A.D., with Buddhist images
43 Nara | again to Japan in the year 677. It was through him, and
44 Heian | who came to that land in 719, translated a sûtra on the
45 Heian | in quest of such ideas in 741 A.D. This may be considered
46 Heian | his return from India in 746. Its introduction into Japan
47 Heian | was then again removed in 794 A.D. from Nara to Heian,
48 Heian | entered into Samadhi in 833, as a yogi. Kukai's works
49 Range | Napoleon.~The Hâng Dynasty (902 B.C. to 220 A.D.). - This
50 Intro | sort of Japanese Merton Abbey. Here various decorative
51 Primit | often attest the artistic ability of the primitive Yamato
52 Confuc | history to publish an edict abolishing slavery, and his downfall
53 Confuc | attributed every conceivable abomination and terror. But it may be
54 Primit | Yamato race, who drove the aboriginal Ainu before them into Yezo
55 Range | treasure-stores of the daimyos, again, abound in works of art and manuscripts
56 Taoism | Kutsugen, of tragic memory, abounds in the intense adoration
57 Meiji | constantly fretted by the absolutism of the Tokugawa Shogunate,
58 Ashika | Confucian formalism, to absorb the Zen idea in all its~
59 Confuc | the ideal of harmony that absorbs the singers and painters
60 Heian | succeeding era shows their absorption and re-expression in the
61 Vista | stern enthusiasm and lofty abstinence of that Ashikaga knighthood
62 Fujiwa | mere contemplation of the Abstract-Absolute. Thus the religious consciousness,
63 Nara | distant vision of the Indian Abstract-Universal which Buddhism had made
64 Range | element, such as we see abstracted and self-realised in the
65 Intro | Okakura is~able to show the absurdity of the Hellenic theory.
66 Primit | creativeness. There has always been abundant energy for the~acceptance
67 Intro | ninth century, makes it abundantly clear that the whole mythology
68 Tokuga | done from the preceding academician. Meanwhile, the life of
69 Primit | they were a remnant of the Accadians who mingled their blood
70 Range | Himalayas divide, only to accentuate, two mighty civilisations,
71 Taoism | only in its expression or accentuation of outlines and contours,
72 Meiji | Japanese art may safely accept from the West, without detracting
73 Primit | abundant energy for the~acceptance and re-application of the
74 Asuka | obliged to hesitate about accepting it. He therefore put the
75 Buddhi | the Upanishads, and the acceptors of the popular interpretation
76 Primit | which she needs still deeper accessions of self-reverence.~NOTES~
77 Asuka | got permission to burn its accessories and throw the statue into
78 Taoism | porcelain-glaze of China to their accidental discoveries.~But the final
79 Ashika | in recitative to a simple accompaniment. These two elements gradually
80 Asuka | Rurishitike, to bear the accompanying image into your empire,
81 Confuc | was therefore the first accomplishment of a Shu youth of gentle
82 Nara | banners, and other religious accoutrements, used on the anniversary
83 Confuc | Scripture of China, which was accumulated gradually through the periods
84 Buddhi | intended, has an inevitable accuracy of its own, deeper than
85 Asuka | following brief summary in more accurate form for use in reference.~
86 Meiji | beautiful bells of temples, accustomed to vibrate the music of
87 Heian | names of Siva, similarly, is Achala, the Unmoving.~The Twelve
88 Confuc | work. Other architectural achievements of this period, however,
89 Intro | in Indian archæology. His acquaintance with the art of the same
90 Confuc | China, and were even perhaps acquainted with Chinese literature,
91 Meiji | Samurai naturally wished to acquire, led them into serious dangers,
92 Heian | influence that Buddhism acquired its great masses of gods
93 Buddhi | the latter of whom had acted as~president of Kanishka'
94 Ashika | and Confucian thought, acting chiefly, however,~through
95 Meiji | the present day. But the active individualism of Meiji,
96 Ashika | is borne from behind the actor to that unhearing and unheard
97 Meiji | which was amongst the first acts of the present reign. Thus
98 Buddhi | correlative attempts at plastic actualisation. This idea finds corroboration
99 Meiji | had not the solid rock of adamantine loyalty formed its immovable
100 Nara | excellence, the form best adapted to this conception, and
101 Fujiwa | prayer, even a single prayer, addressed to the almost maternal Godhead,
102 Asuka | sundry Buddhist scriptures - addressing a memorial, saying, "Your
103 Ashika | Northern Zen, which latter adhered still to the form that had
104 Nara | compiled; and justice was administered by a specially-appointed
105 Toyoto | Castle in 1615, unified the administrative system throughout the land,
106 Taoism | Laoist school, and was held admirable for three virtues, being
107 Asuka | Otomos, who were hereditary admirals in the Japanese navy, cruising
108 Tokuga | could permit themselves to admire their originality. Here
109 Taoism | in feudal days, were not admitted to the assembly of the Shu
110 Taoism | patron, without further ado, "I find my man!"~Kogaishi
111 Heian | but is the true life, he adopts for the moment the symbolic
112 Taoism | abounds in the intense adoration of nature, the worship of
113 Kamaku | the Japanese woman was not adored. For the seclusion of Oriental
114 Buddhi | magnificence of personal adornment. Indeed, it is difficult
115 Range | in that spirit of living Advaitism which welcomes the new without
116 Range | Yellow River, were not yet advanced so far east as the present
117 Kamaku | rise to a literature of adventure, which, centring on some
118 Meiji | and heroism to make the adventurous youth seek passage in those
119 Meiji | in art, from the time of Æschylus to that of Wagner and the
120 Tokuga | China by dilettantes and æsthetes, who considered a painting
121 Meiji | ebb-before the fin-de-siècle æstheticism had redeemed its atrocities,
122 Taoism | future generalisation of æsthetics in that land and in Japan.~
123 Intro | points out that the actual affinities of the Indian development
124 Meiji | their past grandeur, and had afforded shelter to the refugees
125 Buddhi | The Bactrian kingdom in Afghanistan was never more than a small
126 Taoism | Eastern seas, and the members, afraid to return empty-handed,
127 Vista | of vision, and the whole age-long humanising of her labour.
128 Asuka | very stones here are grown aged, and have thus attained
129 Heian | Ha Kuga, or Swan; Khaten (Agni); Ishanna; Thaishak (Indra);
130 Confuc | a forbidden page to the agnostic Confucius, who says, "Knowing
131 Meiji | rending the skies in its agonies of destruction, again lashing
132 Buddhi | footprints at Mathura, near Agra - called a great Buddhist
133 Taoism | all-grasping socialism of agriculturalised Tartars, bred on the banks
134 Heian | one manifestation. They aimed at finding truth in all
135 Meiji | ancient Japanese art, and aiming at a love and knowledge
136 Primit | who drove the aboriginal Ainu before them into Yezo and
137 Fujiwa | scandals of the Grand Monarque; Akazome, noted for her peaceful
138 Confuc | the Incomprehensible, is al~most a forbidden page to
139 Fujiwa | form of Siva himself.~But, alas! in a world so worldly,
140 Taoism | protest. Their experiments in alchemy, however, were productive
141 Ashika | spiritual heroes of the church - Alexander stood transformed as Ignatius
142 Buddhi | before the Christian era. The Alexandrian invasion means rather the
143 Nara | uses his highly-developed algebra and makes astronomical observations;
144 Taoism | takes half a year till it alights. Meanwhile, thrushes and
145 Meiji | strike the note of that all-embracing veneration that was needed.~
146 Taoism | of the Hoang-Ho, and the all-grasping socialism of agriculturalised
147 Primit | this which dismayed the all-powerful Yodai, of the Zui dynasty,
148 Intro | suggestions regarding the alleged influence of the Greeks
149 Taoism | fierce and free, owning no allegiance to the kings of Shu is~ ./.
150 Ashika | Christian fathers, nor yet the allegorical idealisation of the pseudo-renaissance.
151 Buddhi | who must have been closely allied to the Northern school,
152 Fujiwa | occupation of Pekin by the Allies. Choan, with Rakuio or Loyang,
153 Nara | present building covering it allows to the pilgrim's view. The
154 Ashika | upon the latter, as the alone-active. This corresponds to the
155 Nara | of the present Japanese alphabet.~The memory of the wonderful
156 Asuka | renunciation, only such alterations being made as would meet
157 Buddhi | the preceding Andras to amalgamate the Dravidian culture of
158 Range | southern sovereignties were amalgamated. This combination was finally
159 Nara | now into a new life, which amalgamates the Hoang-Ho and the Yang-tse.
160 Ashika | A.D. 960-1280), was an amalgamation of Taoist, Buddhist, and
161 Asuka | built in the same century by Amara Singh, one of the so-called "
162 Meiji | had been dawning on the amazed minds of the students at
163 Asuka | continues] A.D., when an ambassador of the Gettaes, then probably
164 Asuka | Kimmei (552 A.D.), sent ambassadors bearing a bronze-gilt statue
165 Fujiwa | the exchange of diplomatic amenities between the two countries,
166 Meiji | English.~The advent of the American Commodore~Perry finally
167 Taoism | which he was noted, the amiable statesman being pleased
168 Asuka | century the translation of the Amida-Sutra was accomplished.~The word
169 Taoism | moving hither and thither amidst those harmonic laws of matter
170 Asuka | was accomplished.~The word amitabha means immeasurable light,
171 Confuc | nations who roam between the Amoor and the Danube. This fact,
172 Intro | has led to an unfortunate amount of "cleaning" and unintentional
173 Intro | inspection of the carvings gives ample justification of this view,
174 Buddhi | are indeed difficult to analyse and describe in their true
175 Nara | of his works to those of Anarajapura shows the contemporary predominance
176 Meiji | scientific knowledge of anatomy and perspective, the commissariat
177 Tokuga | Ganku, another realist, ancestor of the Kisshi School, differs
178 Primit | sacred shrines of immaculate ancestrism, with their toris and rails
179 Toyoto | who had created their own ancestry with their swords; some
180 Buddhi | able through the preceding Andras to amalgamate the Dravidian
181 Ashika | latent energy breaks forth anew. Life reasserts itself in
182 Range | the river makes a right angle in striking the plains,
183 Ashika | the back of the now docile animal, goes serenely on his way,
184 Range | reactionary Ming, this fact animates some Chinese scholars of
185 Asuka | is the colossal bronze of Ankoin, on the site of the Asuka
186 Meiji | ordeal, unlike any in the annals of our country, has had
187 Meiji | Shinto by threats of instant annihilation. Indeed the zeal of the
188 Nara | accoutrements, used on the anniversary of their death, handing
189 Nara | proclamation of the Sovereign which announces the project of the great
190 Buddhi | contrast of opposites, and in announcing the quest of unity in the
191 Meiji | and connoisseurs, opened annual exhibitions of old chefs-d’
192 Taoism | day his death is mourned annually by great concourses of people.~
193 Primit | foliage, it still ever and anon reveals its brilliance,
194 Asuka | is known.~The next monk, Ansei, comes from Arsaie, the
195 Meiji | is deemed a sufficient answer.~Fragments of nature in
196 Meiji | Confucius as his lieutenant?" He answered without hesitation, "Strike
197 Intro | as a whole? Mr. Okakura answers without hesitation: It is
198 Buddhi | though not necessarily any antagonism, between the Teacher and
199 Taoism | whose secret lies not in antagonisms or criticisms, but in gliding
200 Meiji | Chinese sages, was asked by an antagonist, "What would you do - you
201 Range | terms to the sovereigns of Antioch and Alexandria - is almost
202 Confuc | be overthrown.~Even their antipathy and persecution of letters
203 Intro | and to visit and study the antiquities of China and India. With
204 Vista | of culture.~The chain of antitheses might be indefinitely lengthened.
205 Buddhi | true relativity, as the apex of the religious experience
206 Kamaku | texts, which consist of aphorisms or part-aphorisms, and are
207 Ashika | meaningless chatter of the apish scholars. Freedom, once
208 Ashika | expressionless, but the Hymn to Apollo could still be played in
209 Vista | his stern simplicity of apparel on the Indian prince, and
210 Meiji | all which exists, though apparently manifold, is really one.
211 Ashika | the No-dance is a direct appeal from mind to mind, a mode
212 Asuka | Conversationalists, had appealed to the civilised world of
213 Kamaku | age. The Jodo ideal now appeals to the public mind, through
214 Ashika | always underneath incidental appearances. Not to display, but to
215 Taoism | Nature were brought in by the Appellesian school - rises up before
216 Buddhi | can fail to understand the application of this law. There, the
217 Fujiwa | period, to have completed the apprehension of the Indian ideal. And~ ./.
218 Ashika | communism of Confucian thought, approached the problem from a subjective
219 Confuc | pastoral life, though by it he approaches the Incomprehensible, is
220 Heian | an essential stage in the appropriation of Buddhist conceptions.
221 Range | distinctness in an ocean of approximations, false gods deliberately
222 Intro | breathing a single complex life.~Aptly enough, within the last
223 Range | the Mediterranean coast. Arab~chivalry, Persian poetry,
224 Nara | and which finally gave to Arabia the knowledge with which
225 Confuc | fatalism which, lent to the Arabs by the Tartars, became Mohammedanism.
226 Primit | variegated contour of the archipelago, so conducive to individuality,
227 Buddhi | porticos which successive architects have erected, as each added
228 Taoism | was custodian of the Shu archives, was revered as a master
229 Tokuga | style of his own. He was an ardent student of nature, serving
230 Meiji | same time in the martial ardour of Kamakura, which tolerates
231 Meiji | Japan, open up to us an area hitherto unexplored.~Sculpture
232 Meiji | It represents the great Arhats and Boddhi-Sattvas around
233 Range | against their power have arisen always on the Yang-tse.~
234 Buddhi | all his poverty one of the aristocrats of humanity, we behold him
235 Meiji | world, we knew of the mighty arm of conquest which Europe
236 Meiji | dread image of the Tartar Armada, calling women to pray and
237 Meiji | Japan. Not only in their armaments, industry, and science,
238 Kamaku | Commander-in-Chief of the Armies that fight the Barbarians.
239 Heian | wears a garland of skulls, armlets of snakes, and the tiger-skin
240 Confuc | still surrounded by the aroma of that courtesy with which
241 Heian | eighth centuries, when a need arose for combining the Brahminical
242 Meiji | causes which contributed~to arouse us from this torpor of centuries
243 Meiji | statesmen of the period, and arouses us now to the grand problems
244 Heian | sculpture, and the whole arrangement of~the temple, were all
245 Meiji | culture, armed in all its array of differentiated~knowledge,
246 Asuka | but so many victims of an "arrested development."~The artistic
247 Intro | instance~in modern times of the arrival of a traveller possessed
248 Asuka | monk, Ansei, comes from Arsaie, the land of the Parthians.
249 Buddhi | in India we find Buddhist art-activity working out of the confinement
250 Taoism | the dominant note, in an art-composition. "The secret of portraiture,"
251 Confuc | industrial. Indeed, the Chinese art-consciousness must always have tended
252 Meiji | sympathetic movements in Western art-creations, tried to reconstruct the
253 Ashika | was a great age of art and art-criticism. Their painters, especially
254 Confuc | gold will testify. Thus the art-education of the Japanese was almost
255 Vista | hokku or short sonnet, an art-form within reach of the simplest.~
256 Intro | does, the great alternative art-lineage of the world - namely, the
257 Taoism | the place of nerves and arteries, and the whole is covered
258 Nara | Koken, who was the next to ascend the throne. The nobility
259 Confuc | prime minister, Omo by name, ascended the Dragon Throne in its
260 Kamaku | sect - lacking the severe asceticism of that over-awing popedom
261 Taoism | many compounds, and we may ascribe the origin of the wonderful
262 Buddhi | faith.~In religions that are ascribed to individual founders,
263 Asuka | type of other places, and ascribes the origin of the style
264 Buddhi | pre-Buddhistic Indian art, ascribing its sudden birth to the
265 Intro | long been looking as the Asgard background of the great
266 Nara | without their catastrophic ashes. By reason of the strict
267 Taoism | the abstract idealism of Ashvaghosha and Nagarjuna.~From its
268 Taoism | delay a high dignitary and ask him to play on the flute,
269 Asuka | idealism which, through the Asoka-Kanishka consolidation, brought the
270 Intro | become aggressive, as in the Asokan period. For six or~seven
271 Fujiwa | A civil war between two aspirants for the imperial throne
272 Heian | issues of the great Indian aspiration towards Same-Sightedness (
273 Asuka | Nakatomi,~and the subsequent assassination of the succeeding Emperor,
274 Confuc | he said calmly, and his assassins rushed in upon him and killed
275 Confuc | Throne in its authority, asserting the choice of the wise men
276 Meiji | its bubbles of would-be assertiveness, teems with an unparalleled
277 Fujiwa | the pent-up energy of this assimilated culture was precipitating
278 Meiji | with the double task of assimilating, on the one hand the Greco-Roman
279 Nara | of the Tang period, whose assimilative idea is so early expressed
280 Buddhi | poverty as did S. Francis of Assisi. It may be said that in
281 Meiji | developments, towards the East, assists us in the recovery of those
282 Vista | is a nexus of habits and associations, Of human elements and traditions,
283 Ashika | discarded their graceful robes, assuming huge stiff trousers in their
284 Heian | full of a certain vigour of assurance. But it is not free, lacking
285 Ashika | in art. The Egyptian and Assyrian sought by immense stones
286 Taoism | servants in the sight of the astonished public; when a simple student
287 Nara | age which was to produce astronomers like Aryabhatta, discovering
288 Nara | highly-developed algebra and makes astronomical observations; the twelfth,
289 Nara | Heaven! Let it rend the earth asunder! For the sake of the fathers.
290 Buddhi | gives their basis to the atheistic formulæ of the later Southern
291 Confuc | a social consciousness. Athens was a living influence.
292 Tokuga | It was due to the freer atmosphere of Kyoto that another and
293 Nara | Sankhya philosophy and the atomic theory; the fifth century,
294 Meiji | æstheticism had redeemed its atrocities, before Delacroix had uplifted
295 Primit | specially worshipped at Atsuta.~The temples of Isé and
296 Taoism | thinkers did not openly attack Confucianism, yet their
297 Taoism | between the bones, instead of attacking them. Thus he ridicules
298 Fujiwa | perfection was regarded as attainable by mere contemplation of
299 Range | fails to evoke. The sublime attainments of Indian art, almost effaced
300 Taoism | range of subjects has been attempted. The love of Nature and
301 Asuka | Takamagahara.~The civil commotion attending the establishment of Buddhism
302 Confuc | prior stream of influence is attested by the numerous inscriptions
303 Fujiwa | their faces and in their attire, and could not, in their
304 Intro | Southern thought has already attracted considerable~attention amongst
305 Toyoto | this kind of construction, attracting the admiration of the whole
306 Ashika | because they mistook the attribute for the substance. Even
307 Ashika | slight comic interludes, an audience will sit spell-bound through
308 Toyoto | breadth to cover the walls of audience-chambers. Hot-tempered daimyos rained
309 Asuka | illumination. He as regent of his aunt, the Empress Suiko, wrote
310 Asuka | historical records which we can authenticate begin about the year 59~ ./.
311 Nara | therefore, is of equal authenticity; that there is no truth
312 Fujiwa | mentioned Murasa ki Shikibu, authoress of the grand romance of
313 Buddhi | Kashmir was made the most authoritative deposit of the doctrine,
314 Confuc | emperor - that parental autocrat whose virtues have placed
315 Meiji | glowing with the crimson autumn of Fujiwara, again losing
316 Confuc | industrial conquest to all available corners of the globe.~It
317 Toyoto | Nobunaga who, from his place d’avantage in central Japan, was able
318 Kamaku | devote their lives to the avenging of his death, as in other
319 Meiji | aware of the dangers which awaited the country, were it plunged
320 Nara | overthrow the Hunas and awaken in the North that sense
321 Meiji | helm of the state were well aware of the dangers which awaited
322 Meiji | The two rival movements awoke to consciousness almost
323 Taoism | will feel happy when the axe is on him, though he be
324 Nara | of the earth on its own axis, and his not less illustrious
325 Meiji | attempts~of Shibakokan and Ayodo are conspicuous, now found
326 Meiji | as it falls, becomes a babe, which, wrapped in its birth-mantle
327 Fujiwa | which, not unlike the gold backgrounds of mediæval artists in Europe,
328 Taoism | through the mid-day sky on the backs of storks to join the secret
329 Meiji | precedent, turned its gaze backwards over its ancient history.
330 Buddhi | Greek characteristics. The Bactrian kingdom in Afghanistan was
331 Buddhi | and Southern Buddhism must baffle us. For it is not possible
332 Intro | RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKÂNANDA.~17 BORIC PARA LANE,~BAGH BAZAAR, CALCUTTA.~
333 Range | remembered that the story of Baghdad and her great Saracenic
334 Nara | by the names of Kalidasa, Banabhatta, and the Jain Ravikirti,
335 Meiji | more or less complete, a band of earnest workers strove
336 Nara | painted on the leather bandage of a musical instrument
337 Kamaku | owned by Prince Tokugawa, of Bandainagon, or the three battle-scenes
338 Toyoto | were recruited from the banditti of the land, and some from
339 Asuka | Isui, and on the opposite bank is a little temple called
340 Taoism | agriculturalised Tartars, bred on the banks of the Yellow River, had
341 Kamaku | passion of loyalty to "the banner-chief," became the motive of a
342 Nara | with the ceremonial masks, banners, and other religious accoutrements,
343 Confuc | from distant realms, their banquets and dancers, they add, "
344 Meiji | chiaro-oscuro, before Millet and the Barbizons brought their message of
345 Ashika | Kamakura period produced the Bards, who sang epic ballads of
346 Primit | would not have been the bareness of Teutonic art, if divorced
347 Kamaku | stories, owned by the Emperor, Baron Iwasaki, and the Boston~
348 Toyoto | dictator of more than half baronial Japan. It was Hideyoshi
349 Range | But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment
350 Ashika | dynasty. The doctrines of Baso and Rinzai are clearly demarcated
351 Kamaku | Bandainagon, or the three battle-scenes of the Heiji stories, owned
352 Fujiwa | were destroyed in the epic battles of Suma and Shioya.~NOTES~
353 Ashika | this spirit, as we see in Bayen and Kakei, in Mokkei and
354 Intro | 17 BORIC PARA LANE,~BAGH BAZAAR, CALCUTTA.~
355 Range | of Asiatic ideals - the beach where each successive wave
356 Ashika | new web against the wooden beam, the cry of the crickets,
357 Asuka | pictures painted as a venerable bearded man, holding the infant
358 Meiji | been foreseen in all its bearings by the remarkable insight
359 Range | left its sand-ripple as it beat against the national consciousness.~
360 Heian | common act as if it were beatitude, the world itself as the
361 Kamaku | Eastern poet singing of Beatrice, the Oriental woman.~This
362 Ashika | to revel and glory in the beauties of the whole universe. They
363 Buddhi | the Jataka legends, and to beautify his ideal personality.~In
364 Vista | For the Indian ascetic, begging his bread of village housewives,
365 Buddhi | the province now known as Behar, India.~Nalanda. - The great
366 Buddhi | aristocrats of humanity, we behold him in his infinite mercy,
367 Taoism | is on him, though he be bejewelled?" This spirit of individualism
368 Meiji | from their time-honoured belfries to cast the cannon to defend
369 Intro | depended upon India. It is his belief that her great epochs of
370 Nara | as it does the personal belongings of the Emperor Shomu and
371 Meiji | strove to found a third belt of art-expression, which,
372 Vista | the spiritual mirror, the bemeaning of the sword-soul from steel
373 Vista | housewives, or seated at evenfall beneath some tree, chatting and
374 Intro | Indian spirituality. Thus, benefit of the stimulating influence
375 Heian | influences. Saraswati, as Benten, with her vina, which quells
376 Heian | Commander-in-chief (Kartikeya), who bestows the banner of victory; Shoden,
377 Taoism | when philosophers would betake themselves, for amusement'
378 Buddhi | style in which a deeper and better-informed study of the works of Gandhara
379 Asuka | softening rigid outlines and bettering the proportions. The typical
380 Vista | strength. The very times are bewildered by the manifoldness~of the
381 | beyond
382 Buddhi | classes. It contains the Bhagavad Gita, as one of its episodes,
383 Fujiwa | saint and philosopher of the Bhakti-type. He lived in Southern India
384 Range | the crumbling stones of Bharhut and Buddha Gaya. The jewelled
385 Nara | brilliant with the glory of Bhaskaracharya and his famous daughter,
386 Meiji | suburbs of the city,~whose biennial exhibitions reveal, it is
387 Meiji | ancient masters, led by the Bijitsu Kyo-Kai Art Association.
388 Primit | notwithstanding the mighty billows that surged upon it from
389 Meiji | babe, which, wrapped in its birth-mantle like a nimbus, lifts unconscious
390 Nara | musical instrument called the biwa (evidently from the Indian "
391 Tokuga | and Shohaku, who, with Blake-like instinct, revelled in wild
392 Vista | forth before them suddenly - blasting the sight of all save Vajrapani,
393 Meiji | new ideals of the West, blazing as that was with a wonderful
394 Taoism | inspiration, which, when blended with Buddhist ideals in
395 Nara | always rises out of the blending of the spirit with matter,
396 Range | consciousness. The unique blessing of unbroken sovereignty,
397 Vista | future, and we grope with a blind intensity to find the clue.
398 Vista | Vajrapani, his companions being blinded, turned to the Master and
399 Vista | up to cover it with their bloom. But it must be from Asia
400 Buddhi | and Devas worshipping the bo-tree. These things point to the
401 Fujiwa | heard to make the proud boast that they had never left
402 Vista | day fair, where little boats row up and down great rivers
403 Vista | renunciation that pictures the Boddhi-Sattva as refraining from Nirvana
404 Meiji | represents the great Arhats and Boddhi-Sattvas around the burning pyre
405 Nara | Gissananda of Central, and Bodhi-ruchi of Southern India, further
406 Asuka | Not the Buddha, but the Bodhi-Sattva. He is known in Indian Buddhism
407 Asuka | denotes one of the great Bodhi-Sattvas, who refuse Nirvana until
408 Buddhi | great roof that, like the bodhi-tree itself, offers every day
409 Asuka | Besides the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas there is also the type of
410 Intro | We watch it again as it boils up into the intense pantheism
411 Confuc | was divided being called Boku or pastors. They believed
412 Nara | see the great beauty and boldness of conception of this monumental~
413 Vista | merchants like the legal bond of the West, the name of
414 Intro | originally merely as the bone or foundation of the statues,
415 Heian | The twelve devas are: Bonten (Brahma), attended by the
416 Taoism | imaginative scheme forms the bony system of the work; lines
417 Confuc | of earth; the ballads of border-warfare, echoing the clang of weapons
418 Taoism | trophy from an inroad on the borders of Thibet in the first century,
419 Buddhi | embraces Eastern Asia, but bore its seeds long ago to blossom
420 Intro | RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKÂNANDA.~17 BORIC PARA LANE,~BAGH BAZAAR,
421 Ashika | which unspoken thought is borne from behind the actor to
422 Fujiwa | embassies to Choan, and to cease borrowing further from Chinese institutions.
423 Nara | mathematician, and Jagadis Chunder Bose the physicist. 1~In the
424 Kamaku | Baron Iwasaki, and the Boston~Museum. These are falsely
425 Meiji | humanity. Western medicine and botany were studied at first under
426 Ashika | great lake, clear to its bottom, reflecting the clouds that
427 Ashika | the wind amongst the pine boughs, the dropping of water,
428 Meiji | and Indian culture which bound her in the maya of Orientalism,
429 Meiji | to the lands within their bounds that the great spirits who
430 Heian | as Aizen, of the mighty bow, lion-crowned and awful,
431 Confuc | the realm where ignorance bows before the Infinite - were
432 Heian | twelve devas are: Bonten (Brahma), attended by the white
433 Nara | Aryabhatta; the seventh, when Brahmagupta uses his highly-developed
434 Asuka | the grand Eternal known as Brahman in the~paragraph continues]
435 Buddhi | allusion to the ideal of Brahminhood, which is complete culture
436 Nara | Siladitya of Kanauj honour Brahmins, Jains, and Buddhists equally.
437 Primit | warlike Empress Zhingu to brave the seas, for the protection
438 Kamaku | Barbarians with their simple bravery and unsophisticated ideas,
439 Vista | Indian ascetic, begging his bread of village housewives, or
440 Range | long walls of the North, to break upon and overrun the Punjab.
441 Asuka | despair, people beating their breasts in the sorrow of a night
442 Meiji | spirit of revolution could breathe with freedom. It was in
443 Meiji | historic chronicles has breathed upon these painters, as
444 Taoism | agriculturalised Tartars, bred on the banks of the Yellow
445 Range | about its downfall. The brevity of its duration, coupled
446 Fujiwa | persist! The storm was already brewing in the provinces that was
447 Confuc | great structures in wood and brick, were erected by these true
448 Ashika | imperturbability, as if going to a bridal feast. Life and art, as
449 Nara | scientific demonstration, to bridge over the supposed chasm
450 Buddhi | centuries reflect their own brightness on his personality, and
451 Primit | ever and anon reveals its brilliance, and feeds the vegetation
452 Nara | observations; the twelfth, brilliant with the glory of Bhaskaracharya
453 Meiji | the flesh of Confucius in brine!"~It was this torch that
454 Buddhi | itself, offers every day a broader shelter to mankind. As in
455 Toyoto | out with a simple wash the broadest effect. Sotatsu gives us
456 Nara | clay for the model on their brocaded sleeves, and the ceremony
457 Asuka | sent ambassadors bearing a bronze-gilt statue of Sakya-Muni, with
458 Buddhi | Northern Buddhists and their brother Hindus to paint the whole
459 Toyoto | painters - Tannyu and his brothers, Naonobu and Yasunobu, with
460 Meiji | or destruction from his brow.~Both the range of subjects
461 Taoism | called "The Law of Bones and Brush-work." The creative spirit, according
462 Taoism | posture before calling for his brushes and colours. "Here," exclaimed
463 Heian | foremost examples of the strong brushwork of the period.~Heian art
464 Range | means dance music - from bu, to dance, and gaku, music,
465 Meiji | Meiji era, foaming with its bubbles of would-be assertiveness,
466 Toyoto | centuries, was nipped in the bud of its great futurity by
467 Intro | the longing desire of Buddahood to save others and not itself -
468 Intro | of interchange. Not the Buddhaising but the Indianising of the
469 Heian | Em-ma (Yama), riding on a buffalo, and bearing the great staff
470 Vista | self-consciousness that shall build up Asia again into her ancient
471 Confuc | towers and ornaments upon its buildings.~The architecture of the
472 Confuc | afterwards fell.~The vast bulk of Chinese and Korean~immigrants
473 Taoism | office, but he pointed to a bull, decorated for sacrifice,
474 Nara | early expressed through Bunchusi, the teacher of Gicho, chief
475 Primit | figurines placed round the burial mound, and supposed to represent~
476 Confuc | roughly-chiselled rocks of the Burioshi in Shantung, tombs of a
477 Primit | Nepalese, Siamese, and Burmese, and to bring the added
478 Asuka | Thus they got permission to burn its accessories and throw
479 Meiji | It was this torch that burned in the hand of Sannyo, when
480 Buddhi | preached the faith, formed the busiest seat of Buddhist activity.
481 Tokuga | their originality. Here was Busson trying to formulate a new
482 Asuka | Southern, or native, dynasty.~Buttocho, a teacher who is said to
483 Tokuga | Netsukis. - Ornamental buttons by which the inro or the
484 Vista | screened women to see and buy, is not yet quite dead.
485 Nara | empire, leaving traces of Byzantine and Persian influence in
486 Intro | PARA LANE,~BAGH BAZAAR, CALCUTTA.~
487 Taoism | colour.~The sacredness of calligraphy, which attains to great
488 Confuc | nothing can kill me," he said calmly, and his assassins rushed
489 Fujiwa | family of that imperial candidate who was supported by the
490 Taoism | picture. One by one the candidates arrived, and, saluting him
491 Meiji | time-honoured belfries to cast the cannon to defend the coasts. Women
492 Asuka | Sakya-Muni, with hangings and canopies and sundry Buddhist scriptures -
493 Asuka | disked spires, originally a canopy or umbrella, the emblem
494 Primit | the other of the exuberant canvas-like curves of the Chinese.~The
495 Fujiwa | mount his horse, and the Captain of the Imperial Guard found
496 Toyoto | some from the piratical captains who were such a terror to
497 Range | of Tartar horsemen, the carnage and devastation of infuriated
498 Nara | instruments, mirrors, swords, carpets, screens, and the paper
499 Vista | is the Indian story that carries the same message to its
500 Confuc | his Confucian instincts to carry him to the point of proclaiming,
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