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1001 Buddhi | it is, demonstrates the dual trend of the Buddhist idea.
1002 Confuc | with its symmetry born of dualism, and its repose, the result
1003 Confuc | they had gathered, with the dualistic~mythology of the Turanians,
1004 Confuc | immanence of One in all duality, and with the relation of
1005 Buddhi | the world, and lifted the dumb beast to one level with
1006 Range | downfall. The brevity of its duration, coupled with its importance,
1007 Kamaku | symbolised by the feminine, as Durga, Kali, and others. All women
1008 Toyoto | magnificence, outshone the simpler dwellings even of the Ashikaga Shoguns.
1009 Taoism | swamps of that great valley dwelt a race fierce and free,
1010 Nara | and being hailed by the dying Giogi as one come from the
1011 Tokuga | Kyoto.~Dutch prints were eagerly sought and copied, and Maruyama
1012 Heian | Kompira, or the Gandharva, the Eagle-headed, sacred to mariners; Kichijoten,
1013 Heian | secret text was spoken in the ear.~Samadhi, or realisation
1014 Meiji | less complete, a band of earnest workers strove to found
1015 Asuka | and sleeves, forehead and ears, can we determine the actual
1016 Confuc | occasion who was beating an earthen pot, simply for the pleasure
1017 Fujiwa | Siva-like Fudo, Destroyer of Earthly Passion and Sentiment. Shinran,
1018 Toyoto | it survived the memorable earthquake of 1596 and subsequent~destructive
1019 Fujiwa | prayer they called "the easier path," and their images,
1020 Asuka | that His law should flow Eastward," - the Emperor was, of
1021 Taoism | China was being gradually eaten by the encroachments of
1022 Nara | sculpture was at its lowest ebb and the artist had lost
1023 Meiji | was European at its lowest ebb-before the fin-de-siècle æstheticism
1024 Meiji | princely house of Mito and to Echizen of the Shogunate itself,
1025 Buddhi | Southern Buddhism, we have the echo of the great voice itself,
1026 Ashika | there. Such dim utterances, echoed from the eternal melody
1027 Meiji | ancestors. To the instinctive eclecticism of Eastern culture she owes
1028 Taoism | ground of contest is not economic but intellectual and imaginative.
1029 Fujiwa | of Nuddea," in Bengal, an ecstatic saint of the thirteenth
1030 Meiji | knowledge, and keen with the edge of competitive energy.~The
1031 Confuc | in history to publish an edict abolishing slavery, and
1032 Range | Asiatic monarchs, whose edicts dictated~terms to the sovereigns
1033 Buddhi | added his portion to the edifice of faith. For there has
1034 Meiji | the nation were to be made efficient for the new contest. Thus
1035 Primit | upon the island, by the eight-rayed pathway of the clouds, thus
1036 Nara | forty-five feet higher and eighty feet longer than the present.~
1037 Ashika | sûtras of the so-called eighty-four thousand gates of knowledge
1038 Taoism | Italian wrote "The Prince," elaborated the system of Machiavelli.
1039 Toyoto | Ming, rich with decadent elaborateness, was suggested to them by
1040 Taoism | genius was devoted to the elaboration of the science of tactics.
1041 Meiji | foundation of that compulsory elementary education which was amongst
1042 Heian | of victory; Shoden, the elephant - headed Ganesh, Breaker
1043 Confuc | glittering chariots, their elephants and lions, brought from
1044 Taoism | the discovery of a magic elixir, has attained the power
1045 Range | of itself, and the silent eloquence of the masterpieces of each
1046 Confuc | end of the Shu dynasty, to elucidate and epitomise this great
1047 Confuc | great Sage who embodied and elucidated the fundamental notions
1048 Heian | Kichjoten (Goddess of Fortune); Em-ma (Yama), riding on a buffalo,
1049 Buddhi | natural evidence of his own emancipation, and fall on society with
1050 Buddhi | this short gospel that it embodies all the essential features
1051 Meiji | shadows. Christianity was embraced with the same enthusiasm
1052 Buddhi | that system which not only embraces Eastern Asia, but bore its
1053 Fujiwa | a lifetime in weaving or embroidering the image of Divine Mercy,
1054 Taoism | underground channel, from which it emerged, towards the end of the
1055 Buddhi | assimilation of Buddhism, and its emergence in a new dynamic form. And
1056 Ashika | that our national music emerges in its maturity.~Before
1057 Primit | descendants of the Aryan~ ./. emigrants who pushed through the Kashmirian
1058 Meiji | period is that in which an eminent scholar, noted for his reverence
1059 Ashika | of that calm pathos and emotional repose which we find in
1060 Intro | of the Heian period, the emotionalism of the Fujiwara, the heroic
1061 Heian | fine thought and special emotions become democratised; the
1062 Asuka | central point between two empires, and through a living world
1063 Confuc | infinitude of the sky; leaving empiric Europe to investigate the
1064 Fujiwa | viceroyalty of Shenshi, where the Empress-Dowager took refuge recently, during
1065 Nara | nobility of soul of this great Empress-Mother may be felt even in one
1066 Taoism | members, afraid to return empty-handed, are believed to have settled
1067 Range | thought-inheritance of every Asiatic race, enabling them to produce all the
1068 Nara | years ago. Glass goblets, enamelled cloisonné mirrors, suggestive
1069 Ashika | forms of knowledge tended to enchain it. Zenism was even iconoclastic,
1070 Confuc | restrictive of the freedom of art. Enchained to the service of ethics,
1071 Meiji | The memory of the Jesuit encroachment of the seventeenth century,
1072 Ashika | Words were considered an encumbrance to thought, and the Zenistic
1073 Asuka | struggles for power, which ended with the supremacy of the
1074 Asuka | year gave a pretext to the enemies of the Sogas, who promptly
1075 Toyoto | people would vent their energies in juvenile playfulness
1076 Heian | their slightly commonplace energising of the Heian consciousness,
1077 Nara | Southern India, further enforced the same movement in the
1078 Meiji | the civil war which was to engage the rival powers of the
1079 Buddhi | while their opponents were engaged mainly on details of the
1080 Heian | as its comprehensive view engendered no conflict with any earlier
1081 Meiji | which welcomed the steam engine; the Western costume was
1082 Toyoto | influenced by Portuguese engineers. Of these, the foremost
1083 Intro | Revival of the past century in England. What would be the simultaneous
1084 Tokuga | copied the lines of the engravings with his brush. It was due
1085 Fujiwa | greater Indian affinity, enjoy an advantage over the Chinese,
1086 Range | in its natural order to enrich the soil.~The Yamato poetry,
1087 Ashika | paragraph continues] Next ensues the struggle for mastery -
1088 Asuka | famine which raged in the ensuing year gave a pretext to the
1089 Asuka | too large to allow of its entering the door of that great temple,
1090 Fujiwa | might, could not accomplish entire self-conquest and direct
1091 Intro | the south, we watch the entrance of the stream of Buddhism,
1092 Asuka | Emperor decided the matter by entrusting the statue to Iname, in
1093 Meiji | enthral the Japanese mind, entwining dragon-like upon their own
1094 Confuc | such luxury!" Again, they enumerate the glories of the principal
1095 Range | their story better than any epitome of necessary half-truths.
1096 Confuc | dynasty, to elucidate and epitomise this great scheme of synthetic
1097 Asuka | pervade them all - thus epitomising the national life of Japan
1098 Buddhi | bondage, and proclaiming equality and brotherhood to all.
1099 Taoism | early home, could never be eradicated, and the uncultivated foresters
1100 Heian | sculpture in the Manasara. In erecting a temple, for instance,
1101 Nara | with his whole court at the erection. Ladies of the highest rank
1102 Intro | may correct many of the errors of the past.~With regard
1103 Meiji | shelter to the refugees who escaped to them from the wrath of
1104 Primit | destroyed, only three men escaping with their lives. This was
1105 Asuka | reject it with its embassy of escort.~The Emperor decided the
1106 Fujiwa | with their heavenly music, escorted spirits into Paradise. There
1107 Ashika | depictment of nature, but an essay on nature; to them there
1108 Buddhi | deeper than the words imply.~Essentially, according to both interpretations,
1109 Asuka | and a grant of extensive estates in the provinces. The statue
1110 Confuc | Even painting was held in esteem for its inculcation of the
1111 Confuc | Universal and Impersonal, stands eternally redeemed.~NOTES~Eki or Book
1112 Meiji | succession unbroken from eternity. But our curious isolation
1113 Heian | earth, air, fire, water, and ether understood as Mind, declaring
1114 Intro | extreme west of Ireland, Etruria, Phœnicia, Egypt, India,
1115 Meiji | conservatism or radical Europeanisation imposed on art. When the
1116 Intro | fresh waves of so-called Europeanism to bear on the school, and
1117 Vista | to self. How many of the Evangels have uttered this truth! "
1118 Vista | housewives, or seated at evenfall beneath some tree, chatting
1119 Meiji | informed of the current events of the outside world, we
1120 Ashika | necessary in order to make an everlasting impression; but leaving
1121 Heian | worship this notion that the everyday life is not like but is
1122 | Everything
1123 | everywhere
1124 Fujiwa | free from the pains and evils of this wretched life, they
1125 Asuka | Buddhist sûtras not only evince remarkable scholarship in
1126 Toyoto | just awakened from sleep, evincing now for the first time the
1127 Range | poetry of Kalidasa fails to evoke. The sublime attainments
1128 Meiji | freedom always in the sense of evolutional self-development. Art is
1129 Primit | which it is rebuilt, in the exact original form, every twenty
1130 Primit | are preserved in pristine exactness by having their youth renewed
1131 Buddhi | the text is by no means exaggerated.~Mahabharata. - The epic
1132 Confuc | and self-contained in its exalted socialism, its children,
1133 Confuc | compulsory in the civil service examinations, a regulation which has
1134 Asuka | Suiko herself. This~is an excellent specimen of the Hâng style.~
1135 | except
1136 Asuka | past importance.~The one exception to this is the colossal
1137 Fujiwa | Tâng dynasty, prevented the exchange of diplomatic amenities
1138 Confuc | weapons and the~trampling of excited steeds; and weird chants
1139 Taoism | brushes and colours. "Here," exclaimed the patron, without further
1140 Range | more ultimate or mutually exclusive validity than the separate
1141 Ashika | which devotes itself too exclusively to landscapes, birds, and~
1142 Taoism | distinguished painter to execute a picture. One by one the
1143 Nara | style, both in spirit and in execution, as to give us a glimpse
1144 Taoism | countrymen.~This poetry, as exemplified in Kutsugen, of tragic memory,
1145 Fujiwa | sad poetess, whose life exemplifies the loves and sorrows of
1146 Ashika | themselves inhaling and exhaling in union with the great
1147 Fujiwa | religious consciousness, exhausted by despair of the terrible
1148 Confuc | decadence of their power, exhausting alike the resources and
1149 Taoism | the King of So, and he was exiled. By way of self-assertion
1150 Heian | philosophy which divided the Existent into five elements - earth,
1151 Ashika | contemplation of the world-life expanded before us.; in the wonderful
1152 Range | for one moment that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate
1153 Taoism | emperors of Shin sent out expeditions to search for the potion
1154 Taoism | Confucian protest. Their experiments in alchemy, however, were
1155 Fujiwa | mediæval artists in Europe, is explained by the argument that yellow
1156 Kamaku | Fujiwara epoch, with its exploration of the realm of religious
1157 Meiji | yet to be trodden by the explorers of the future.~NOTES~Sannyo. -
1158 Ashika | from those of the early exponents of this school. Zenism,
1159 Confuc | Korean scholar, came to expound Confucian texts. That there
1160 Ashika | a little mechanical and expressionless, but the Hymn to Apollo
1161 Ashika | The Ashikaga aristocracy, exquisites in their own way, worked,
1162 Asuka | court rank and a grant of extensive estates in the provinces.
1163 Fujiwa | Divine Mercy, out of threads extracted from the lotus-stem. Such
1164 Meiji | amongst which it becomes extremely difficult to abstract and
1165 Heian | capable of including the two extremes, of ascetic self-torture
1166 Ashika | take delight in all the exuberance of virile nature.~Hosts
1167 Primit | and on the other of the exuberant canvas-like curves of the
1168 Nara | with India becomes more facilitated by the extension of the
1169 Toyoto | Ashikaga rule, weakened by the factions of the two families, Yamana
1170 Asuka | records of the pilgrim Hoken (Fahian), who describes the statues
1171 Confuc | remotest danger of such a failure of sympathy, Asiatic art,
1172 Vista | market and the saints'-day fair, where little boats row
1173 Buddhi | authentic and vastly more faithful to the complexity of the
1174 Kamaku | Boston~Museum. These are falsely attributed to Keion, an
1175 Intro | the world is necessarily familiar, of Buddhism pouring into
1176 Tokuga | finally, was Jakuchu, a fanatic, who loved to paint impossible
1177 Range | rough-handedness of the Hunas, the fanatical iconoclasm of the Mussulmân,
1178 Tokuga | dwell in the delights of fancy. It is because the prettiness
1179 Toyoto | juvenile playfulness and fantastic images, the daimyos would
1180 Meiji | present Majesty, to whose far-sighted penetration Japan owes much~
1181 Confuc | succeeded by Shinno, the Divine Farmer.~But the slowly-defining
1182 Buddhi | influence spread Buddhism farther into Central Asia. But all
1183 Ashika | costliest incense-wood from the farthest Indian islands; even whose
1184 Vista | prosperity; and Japan, the Fatherland of the race of Ama, would
1185 Intro | their work will compare favourably with any in the world. And
1186 Vista | simple life of Asia need fear no shaming from that sharp
1187 Ashika | as if going to a bridal feast. Life and art, as influenced
1188 Primit | reveals its brilliance, and feeds the vegetation by which
1189 Meiji | equal before the law, as fellow-citizens with the meanest peasant
1190 Fujiwa | softened by the spirit of femininity, produced a new type, very
1191 Meiji | and again in an ocean of ferment. One is the Asiatic ideal,
1192 Fujiwa | scatter to the four winds that festival of flowers which reigned
1193 Range | heard on great occasions of festivity and ceremonial.~
1194 Meiji | intensity of the raging fever that moved their grandfathers
1195 Meiji | occurred at the same time in fiction and the drama.~The downfall
1196 Ashika | interpret an idea, which is fife within life.~The two most
1197 Toyoto | painted on a scale of forty or fifty feet in breadth to cover
1198 Nara | of the finite soul in its fifty-two stages of growth~ ./. and
1199 Kamaku | Commander-in-Chief of the Armies that fight the Barbarians. This title
1200 Taoism | the Master, was devoted to fighting the Laoist theories. It
1201 Primit | stones. The terra-cotta figurines placed round the burial
1202 Tokuga | also.~The Kano academies - filled with the disciplinary instincts
1203 Meiji | its lowest ebb-before the fin-de-siècle æstheticism had redeemed
1204 Heian | manifestation. They aimed at finding truth in all religions and
1205 Meiji | emancipated from the delicate finesse of the later Tokugawas,
1206 Nara | years later, undoubtedly the finest existing specimen of this
1207 Primit | grandeur, gives its exquisite finish to our industrial and decorative
1208 Nara | permitted to establish their fire-worship in the important cities~
1209 Primit | this consciousness that fired the warlike Empress Zhingu
1210 Primit | organic union has stood firm throughout the ages, notwithstanding
1211 Meiji | centuries may be mentioned, firstly, the Confucian revival of
1212 Taoism | dragon," saying, "I know that fish can swim, I know that birds
1213 Fujiwa | use of arms were functions fit only for the menial classes.~
1214 Intro | China. In such a theory, a fitting truce is called to all degrading
1215 Range | include some of the noblest flights of pure Hinduism. Their
1216 Taoism | fragrance of plum-flowers floating on the twilight water, the
1217 Meiji | Perry finally opened the flood-gates of Western knowledge, which
1218 Range | Bengali Tantrikism, and flooded the Indian peninsula, to
1219 Intro | alone can Asia live and flourish. The thing we call Buddhism
1220 Ashika | single picture or a simple flower-vase, to give it unity and concentration,
1221 Ashika | or the movements of the flowing water. The great World-soul
1222 Meiji | defend the coasts. Women flung their mirrors into the same
1223 Taoism | swim, I know that birds can fly, but the dragon's power
1224 Ashika | ruffled by winds which make it foam and rage, but only to settle
1225 Primit | on under masses of fallen foliage, it still ever and anon
1226 Confuc | in mediaeval Europe, the folk-songs of countrysides, with their
1227 Nara | day in Japan, in a quaint folk-story of three travellers meeting
1228 Nara | our shores. Gumporik, a follower of Kanshin, a great Chinese
1229 Vista | or Taiso, of Tâng, forego food, because his people were
1230 Meiji | nation was not ready for fool-hardy self-assertion. Lasting
1231 Taoism | in painting, and first in foolishness." His is the earliest voice
1232 Nara | a foaming torrent at its foot.~Another Roshana Buddha
1233 Taoism | Southerner, followed in his footsteps, and enlarged on the relativity
1234 Asuka | Mussulman conquest of India, forcing this immense trade into
1235 Asuka | only by arms and sleeves, forehead and ears, can we determine
1236 Range | the Rajputs, had been the forerunners of that great Mongol outburst
1237 Meiji | a half. It had also been foreseen in all its bearings by the
1238 Toyoto | even then.~This school, foreshadowing modern~ paragraph continues]
1239 Nara | Taiso himself. This harmony foreshadows the Neo-Confucianism of
1240 Taoism | eradicated, and the uncultivated foresters of the Yang-tse-Kiang were
1241 Taoism | amusement's sake, to work at the forge, paying no attention to
1242 Taoism | of dark and light-without forgetting that the artistic, and not
1243 Kamaku | day to illustrate, as the formalist canons of aristocratic distinction
1244 Primit | amongst the Turanian tribes forming the Thibetans, Nepalese,
1245 Buddhi | their basis to the atheistic formulæ of the later Southern school.
1246 Tokuga | Here was Busson trying to formulate a new style by illustrating
1247 Range | purpose seems to have been the formulation~of a religion which could
1248 Buddhi | students love~to classify the formulations of Buddhism, are inter-related
1249 Fujiwa | India.~Both Genshin, the formulator of the creed, and Genku,
1250 Asuka | sixth century, of which fortunately some descriptions remain,
1251 | forty
1252 Nara | The original building was forty-five feet higher and eighty feet
1253 Asuka | progressives and conservatives fought out their differences of
1254 Buddhi | are ascribed to individual founders, it is clear that there
1255 Range | day to seek in Japan the fountain-head of their own ancient knowledge.~
1256 Confuc | during his short reign of fourteen years his coins reached
1257 Buddhi | worship poverty as did S. Francis of Assisi. It may be said
1258 Intro | strange land the name of Franciscanism, from its first missioners.~
1259 Asuka | Taiando was so eager to have frank criticism that he hung a
1260 Range | and art, in face of the Frankish nations of the Mediterranean
1261 Buddhi | Sakas, or Scythians, and the frankly Mongolian type in which
1262 Fujiwa | epoch, and, intoxicated with frantic love, men and women deserted
1263 Buddhi | sectarian pride and pious frauds have stained, each to his
1264 Tokuga | therefore, that scholars and free-thinkers flocked to take refuge,
1265 Toyoto | yet sweet to the nation, freed from half a century of bloodshed,
1266 Meiji | constitutional system such as was freely bestowed by the monarch
1267 Meiji | wholesale ravages which this frenzied love of European institutions
1268 Confuc | the Hâng dynasty. These fresco-sculptures contain descriptions of
1269 Meiji | Iyeyasu, had been constantly fretted by the absolutism of the
1270 Taoism | seeking in Nature his only friend, in idealisation his only
1271 Fujiwa | and could not, in their frivolity, understand the danger that
1272 Confuc | territories, lying on the frontiers of the empire, it is supposed
1273 Vista | winter night, because the frost lay cold~on the hearths
1274 Nara | with which she was later to fructify Europe.~It was also an age
1275 Buddhi | to remain always the same frugal villager. Much more does
1276 Intro | indeed the great means and fruitage~of that gladness of liberty
1277 Vista | all courtesy, to be its fruits, making Takakura, Emperor
1278 Confuc | that the first emperor was Fukki, the Teacher of Grazing,
1279 Tokuga | century and a half later, the fulcrum on which would turn the
1280 Fujiwa | and the use of arms were functions fit only for the menial
1281 Meiji | again lashing itself into furious welcome of any new scrap
1282 Meiji | mirrors into the same burning furnace, seething with patriotic
1283 Kamaku | in poetic mist, so as to furnish the imagination of a later
1284 Ashika | These two elements gradually fused and became permeated by
1285 Heian | Ishanna; Thaishak (Indra); Futen; Vishamon, whose consort
1286 Toyoto | in the bud of its great futurity by that icy conventionalism
1287 Ashika | the wake of these - Noami, Gaiami, Soami, Sotan, Keishoki,
1288 Range | from bu, to dance, and gaku, music, or to play. This
1289 Ashika | Masanobu, Motonobu, and a galaxy of illustrious names fill
1290 Buddhi | allusions to storeyed towers, galleries of pictures, and castes
1291 Heian | the waves; Kompira, or the Gandharva, the Eagle-headed, sacred
1292 Tokuga | Ming differentiate him.~Ganku, another realist, ancestor
1293 Buddhi | authority in widely different garbs, led inevitably to schismatic
1294 Heian | Maha-Iswara), he wears a garland of skulls, armlets of snakes,
1295 Buddhi | of the birth of Buddhism. Garlands of love and reverence have
1296 Kamaku | clansmen, wore a priestly garment over their armour, and many
1297 Taoism | room, and throwing off his garments sat down in some rough posture
1298 Ashika | so-called eighty-four thousand gates of knowledge were like the
1299 Buddhi | probably delivered in the Gatha, or some kindred transitional
1300 Asuka | of the period, which we gather from the Suiko shrine.~Of
1301 Meiji | feeling the raging storm that gathers in his soul.~The epic heroes
1302 Taoism | dragon's power I cannot gauge." Laotse's successor, Soshi,
1303 Buddhi | reincarnated himself as Gautama!~At any rate it is certain,
1304 Confuc | palace, jade staff in hand, gazing out upon the stars, while
1305 Asuka | one of the so-called "Nine Gems of Learning" of the court
1306 Confuc | of its broad intellectual generalisations, and its infinite compassion
1307 Asuka | history having been somewhat generalised for the purposes of the
1308 Meiji | continues] Buddha as its generalissimo, and Confucius as his lieutenant?"
1309 Kamaku | illustration of the heroic legends, generally in the form of makimonos,
1310 Buddhi | faith. For there has been no generation that did not bring its own
1311 Meiji | the age, and the numerous geniuses who follow in their track,
1312 Fujiwa | of the grand romance of Genji; Seishonagon, whose sarcastic
1313 Toyoto | those of the later Tokugawa genre~school, where intense class-distinctions
1314 Toyoto | even as late as the era of Genroku, a century after the establishment
1315 Vista | vitality she needs. Like all genuine restorations, it is a reaction
1316 Meiji | traders came. The knowledge of geography which they gleaned from
1317 Confuc | existed, suited to become the germ of the Confucian development.
1318 Meiji | trend of Europe itself, in German philosophy and Russian spirituality,
1319 Intro | this respect to that of Germany, Holland, and Norway amongst
1320 Heian | heads; Nitten, the Sun-God; Getten, the Moon-God; Suiten, the
1321 Range | the epoch of Mahmoud of Ghazni, in the eleventh century.
1322 Kamaku | name is also pronounced Ghengi Khei, and some of the names
1323 Nara | Bunchusi, the teacher of Gicho, chief adviser of Taiso
1324 Nara | Gensho (Hiouen-Tsang) and Gijo (Iching), though noted for
1325 Tokuga | to be hung on the obi or girdle.~Netsukis. - Ornamental
1326 Meiji | writing to all boys and girls alike, studying in the village~
1327 Nara | time. Kenshu, assisted by Gissananda of Central, and Bodhi-ruchi
1328 Asuka | Emperor was, of course, glad to receive the tribute,
1329 Intro | means and fruitage~of that gladness of liberty which we call
1330 Nara | twelve hundred years ago. Glass goblets, enamelled cloisonné
1331 Meiji | this road. The wonderful glaze of Kozan is not only reviving
1332 Meiji | of geography which they gleaned from this source opened
1333 Taoism | antagonisms or criticisms, but in gliding into the interstices that
1334 Confuc | the emperor, with their glittering chariots, their elephants
1335 Confuc | available corners of the globe.~It fell to the lot of Confucius (
1336 Confuc | Again, they enumerate the glories of the principal cities
1337 Ashika | light of the stars, in the glow of the flowers, in the motion
1338 Meiji | of idealistic Nara, now glowing with the crimson autumn
1339 Meiji | So the Meiji restoration glows with the fire of Patriotism,
1340 Asuka | of existence. "Wherever a gnat cries, there am I," may
1341 Asuka | China, at the mouth of the Gobi Desert, divided before reaching
1342 Nara | hundred years ago. Glass goblets, enamelled cloisonné mirrors,
1343 Heian | great masses of gods and goddesses, alien to the faith itself,
1344 Toyoto | wonderful usefulness of gold-leaf, employed so much ever since
1345 Ashika | hidden parts with costly gold-work. The tea-room would be decorated
1346 Heian | India, the latter having gone back to India in quest of
1347 Meiji | stale and old-fashioned goods of Manchester.~The voices
1348 Tokuga | representative artist of this period.~Goshun, his rival, the founder
1349 Buddhi | may be said of this short gospel that it embodies all the
1350 Asuka | worshipping alien gods. Thus they got permission to burn its accessories
1351 Fujiwa | the court as the hordes of Goths by the later Romans. The
1352 Meiji | just projected from his gourd, an image of the playful
1353 Ashika | conform to the laws that govern all existence. Composition
1354 Tokuga | unconsciously to those methods which governed the old masters.~Kyoto art,
1355 Confuc | great walls, its provincial governments akin to the Persian satrapies,
1356 Taoism | the man who resigned a governorship because he disliked wearing
1357 Ashika | life is also the law which governs beauty. Virility and activity
1358 Tokuga | and softness and exquisite gradation of effects on silk give
1359 Asuka | whose number denoted the grade of spiritual rank, three
1360 Asuka | forms, representing all grades of existence. "Wherever
1361 Confuc | constituted on the system of graduated obedience, and the peasant
1362 Tokuga | in the provinces. After graduating at Yedo (Tokyo), it was
1363 Buddhi | moment disturbing that calm graduation of experience by which they
1364 Meiji | whose colossal works on grammar and philology modern scholars
1365 Asuka | had then placed his own grand-niece Suiko on the throne, she
1366 Asuka | throne, she being also the granddaughter of the Emperor. Her long
1367 Intro | grand interpretation of the grandest theme within the reach of
1368 Asuka | a devout believer, and grandfather of the celebrated sculptor,
1369 Meiji | raging fever that moved their grandfathers to the revolution.~A study
1370 Asuka | a high court rank and a grant of extensive estates in
1371 Meiji | the Shogunate, which had granted them hereditary privileges,
1372 Meiji | development the West also had to grapple with the double task of
1373 Confuc | wandered amongst the tall grasses of the plateaux; above all,
1374 Meiji | self-assertion. Lasting gratitude is due to these, as well
1375 Confuc | was Fukki, the Teacher of Grazing, succeeded by Shinno, the
1376 Ashika | this period and that of the Greco-Romans is due to the fundamental
1377 Range | Sakas, and the Gettaes, grim ancestors of the Rajputs,
1378 Meiji | patronage and the dreadful grind of mechanical industry,
1379 Meiji | polish their swords, now groaning in the rust of three centuries
1380 Meiji | content to move in those fixed grooves which orthodox conservatism
1381 Vista | secret of our future, and we grope with a blind intensity to
1382 Ashika | freedom. Deluded human minds groped in darkness, because they
1383 Kamaku | the public mind, through grosser representations of retribution.
1384 Meiji | those gigantic, or may be grotesque, figures which the slanting
1385 Kamaku | later day with~ plausible grounds for identifying him with
1386 Primit | who were gathered to the groups of Kami or gods, on the
1387 Meiji | were appointed to teach - grovelled in darkness from its infancy,
1388 Taoism | discuss philosophy in bamboo groves; when a prime minister chose
1389 Nara | influx of Indians into China, grows greater every day. Gensho (
1390 Fujiwa | Captain of the Imperial Guard found it impossible to move,
1391 Heian | minutest details must be guarded and conserved, the object
1392 Primit | while the Japanese waited, guarding their coasts, a great cloud
1393 Nara | sticks, and our Japanese guest the small but necessary
1394 Taoism | attention to the illustrious guests who might have come to honour
1395 Ashika | law of change which is the guiding thread of life is also the
1396 Tokuga | pictures of Mitsuoki and Gukei show.~The sordid aristocracy
1397 Nara | this~time to our shores. Gumporik, a follower of Kanshin,
1398 Meiji | they adopted the machine gun. Political theories and
1399 Ashika | influence of the India of the Guptas, during the Tâng dynasty
1400 Kamaku | The Indian idea of the Guru, or giver of spiritual life,
1401 Heian | attended by the white bird Ha Kuga, or Swan; Khaten (Agni);
1402 Fujiwa | uncivilised peoples east of the Hakone Pass, who were almost as
1403 Asuka | The site of the house of Hakurakuten, our beloved Tâng poet,
1404 Range | any epitome of necessary half-truths. My poor attempts are merely
1405 Meiji | instant when love stops,~half-unconscious, on her pilgrimage in search
1406 Nara | centuries themselves, with Ham Chandra the mathematician,
1407 Taoism | of the Mountains) which Hanchow, one of the Hâng generals,
1408 Intro | contention with which this little handbook opens, that Asia, the Great
1409 Nara | have the right to add his handful of clay and his strip of
1410 Nara | anniversary of their death, handing down to us in all its luxury
1411 Toyoto | in rich colouring. They handled colour more as mass than
1412 Fujiwa | and impure, so that the handling of money and the use of
1413 Vista | paragraph continues] For once it happened, say the Buddhists, that,
1414 Intro | the ideal by which it is hardly known as yet in Europe.
1415 Taoism | and thither amidst those harmonic laws of matter which are
1416 Ashika | phases. It is not replete and harmonious, like the formalistic beauty
1417 Confuc | special function being to harmonise men with men, and communities
1418 Vista | and living knowledge, the harmonised thought and feeling of staunch
1419 Ashika | Indian, and imbued with the harmonistic communism of Confucian thought,
1420 Kamaku | of the Shoguns, who, like Haroun-al-Raschid, travelled through the Empire
1421 Meiji | master-minds of Motoori and Harumi, to whose colossal works
1422 Tokuga | Outamaro, Shunman, Kionobu, Harunobu, Kionaga, Toyokuni, and
1423 Confuc | him we have only the first harvesting of a mighty culture that
1424 Nara | the spiral lines of the head-dress. It is sitting on a lotus
1425 Range | by a popular rising. The headman of a village became Emperor
1426 Asuka | work which decorates the headpiece and parts of the armour
1427 Heian | death, surmounted by two heads; Nitten, the Sun-God; Getten,
1428 Heian | Yakshi Buddha, the Great Healer, carved under the orders
1429 Vista | the same message to its hearers.~paragraph continues] For
1430 Confuc | rather than forego the hearing of music, of his following
1431 Meiji | against their supremacy. It is heart-rending to read the history of those
1432 Vista | the frost lay cold~on the hearths of his poor; or Taiso, of
1433 Fujiwa | of fifteen years won the hearts of the uncivilised peoples
1434 Fujiwa | Angels, who, with their heavenly music, escorted spirits
1435 Asuka | ideal Buddha in the Western heavens. Kumarajiva, son of a Gettae
1436 Fujiwa | impossible to move, in the heavy armour which had become
1437 Kamaku | three battle-scenes of the Heiji stories, owned by the Emperor,
1438 Vista | decorative art which is the heirloom of ages has been in its
1439 Range | classic period - natural heirlooms of a nation which has preserved
1440 Intro | ripple-marks alike on the shores of Hellas, the extreme west of Ireland,
1441 Meiji | holders of the ropes at the helm of the state were well aware
1442 Nara | death, and this with the help of her daughter Koken, who
1443 Meiji | the idea of liberty, was helping to uplift from it the cloud
1444 | Hence
1445 Fujiwa | their representatives and henchmen to take charge of their
1446 Nara | collection a miniature Pompeii or Herculaneum without their catastrophic
1447 Ashika | and the inner light. The herdsman conquers, and, seated on
1448 Confuc | years. These were Mongolian herdsmen, who had been horse-breeders
1449 Intro | boundaries and clearly demarcated heresies, capable of giving birth
1450 Ashika | penances of the mediæval hermit, who tormented his flesh
1451 Meiji | shed in his old age by the hero; the mingled terror and
1452 Tokuga | Mitsunobu, who had clung heroically to his old school during
1453 Buddhi | of the golden statue of a heroine, and the magnificence of
1454 Asuka | From the supremacy of Hideyoshin in 1587 to the accession
1455 Taoism | and the divine narcissus, hiding its noble soul in deep ravines,
1456 Nara | and the strength of its hierarchy was enough later to threaten
1457 Buddhi | seventh century, when Gensho (Hieuntsang) visited~paragraph continues]
1458 Toyoto | lowering themselves, such as high-class artists of the later Tokugawa
1459 Ashika | simplicity.~The strong, high-toned drawing and colouring, and
1460 Primit | mountain Takamagahara, the highland of Ama - an Olympus which
1461 Nara | when Brahmagupta uses his highly-developed algebra and makes astronomical
1462 Range | conquest went, by the ancient highways~ ./. of the sea, the intrepid
1463 Nara | precipice of the wonderful hillside of Riumonsan, with a foaming
1464 Buddhi | Buddhists and their brother Hindus to paint the whole world
1465 Confuc | subject to remonstrate, but to hint, and of all this poetry
1466 Taoism | of the Universe, moving hither and thither amidst those
1467 Meiji | Satsuma and of Choshu, of Hizen and of Tosa, had always
1468 Range | possible to distinguish, in the hoary communism of the Yellow
1469 Toyoto | Nijo Castle, and the Nishi Hoganji Temple.~The breaking down
1470 Asuka | the records of the pilgrim Hoken (Fahian), who describes
1471 Asuka | neighbouring temples, Horinji and Hokiji, are also specimens of the
1472 Heian | the graceful Kwannon of Hokkiji in Nara.~In painting, the
1473 Vista | wanderings without leaving his hokku or short sonnet, an art-form
1474 Asuka | in contrast to Vajrapani, holder of the thunderbolt.~
1475 Meiji | patriotic fire. Yet the powerful holders of the ropes at the helm
1476 Intro | respect to that of Germany, Holland, and Norway amongst ourselves.
1477 Meiji | appointed to treat with the Hollanders, might dare to hold communication
1478 Range | the midst of an exquisite home-life.~It is in Japan alone that
1479 Fujiwa | disciple of Genku, founded the Honganji sect, now the most powerful
1480 Nara | and Buddhists were equally honoured, when the Nestorian fathers
1481 Primit | rite of ancestor-worship - honouring the manes of the fathers
1482 Fujiwa | seen in all its glory at Hoodo, in Uji, one of the innumerable
1483 Meiji | exhibitions reveal, it is hoped, the vital element in the
1484 Asuka | and two monks, Matanga and Horan, claiming to be from Central
1485 Kamaku | destruction and sublime horror - suggests the imagery of
1486 Kamaku | Pictures of purgatory~and the horrors of hell are for the first
1487 Confuc | Mongolian herdsmen, who had been horse-breeders and charioteers under the
1488 Confuc | style, as their mirrors, horse-trappings, sword-ornaments, and beautiful
1489 Range | described as Confucianism on horseback, sword in hand. For it is
1490 Nara | sounder basis, relays of horses being established on the
1491 Heian | subdivisions - first Fudo, second Hosho, third Amida, and fourth
1492 Toyoto | two families, Yamana and Hosokawa who, as regents of the Shoguns,
1493 Range | tyranny, lost her intellectual hospitality - succeeded the epoch of
1494 Ashika | exuberance of virile nature.~Hosts of others follow in the
1495 Toyoto | walls of audience-chambers. Hot-tempered daimyos rained down their
1496 Confuc | with their treasures in the hour of defeat, and partly by
1497 Taoism | indulge him in his request for hours; when philosophers would
1498 Heian | the symbolic marks of the householder.~In this fusion of spirit
1499 Confuc | the rise of strong feudal houses, which were again conquered
1500 Vista | begging his bread of village housewives, or seated at evenfall beneath
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