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2002 Kamaku | possible that this fire of monasticism has been the great influence
2003 Fujiwa | so that the handling of money and the use of arms were
2004 Kamaku | him with Genghis Khan in Mongolia, whose wonderful career
2005 Meiji | Thibetan Tantrikism which the Mongols had brought to China, before
2006 Fujiwa | masculine discipline of the monk-taught doctrines of preceding ages -
2007 Ashika | illustrated by the simile of monkeys attempting to seize the
2008 Asuka | rites, whereas Okoshi of Mononobe, the father of Moria - name
2009 Asuka | between the Sogas and the Mononobes, hereditary commanders-in-chief
2010 Primit | once from the leaning to monotonous breadth of the Chinese,
2011 Ashika | Thus is suggested a grand monotony. The main parts are three
2012 Intro | Okakura now resigned. Six months later thirty-nine of the
2013 Nara | boldness of conception of this monumental~work, in spite of the cramped
2014 Heian | the Sun-God; Getten, the Moon-God; Suiten, the God of Waters
2015 Ashika | to move about in the pure moonlight, where at once he is and
2016 Meiji | shimmering in the silver moonshine of Ashikaga - returns upon
2017 Meiji | dissensions.~The Code of Morality, the keystone of Japanese
2018 Intro | in some~sense the William Morris of his country, we may also
2019 Primit | overpass the Ural ranges into Moscow. And it is for Japan herself
2020 Taoism | concourses of people.~Mencius. - Moshi or Mencius lived about a
2021 | mostly
2022 Heian | represented by Kariteimo, the Mother-Queen~of Heaven, to whom is made
2023 Heian | of the Indian thought of motherhood - all these suggest the
2024 Buddhi | closer than ever to the motherland of thought.~NOTES~The spiritual
2025 Nara | fathers. For the sake of the mothers. For the sake of all mankind."
2026 Ashika | Sotan, Keishoki, Masanobu, Motonobu, and a galaxy of illustrious
2027 Meiji | led by the master-minds of Motoori and Harumi, to whose colossal
2028 Kamaku | sadness of things" was the motto of the time, so bringing
2029 Nara | deprived of the plaster mouldings with which they were originally
2030 Range | only a past glory in the mouldy walls of Ajanta, the tortured
2031 Primit | placed round the burial mound, and supposed to represent~
2032 Taoism | provinces. The chiefs of these mountaineers, in feudal days, were not
2033 Taoism | To this day his death is mourned annually by great concourses
2034 Nara | phoenixes with bells in their mouths. People thought it the work
2035 Meiji | of the raging fever that moved their grandfathers to the
2036 Meiji | which the artistic mind moves, a plan of campaign which
2037 Asuka | was placed in his villa at Mukobara for a time. But the pestilence
2038 Asuka | foundations scattered amongst the mulberry trees, alone mark its past
2039 Asuka | divine as manifested in Sakya Muni. The recognition of this
2040 Fujiwa | of which may be mentioned Murasa ki Shikibu, authoress of
2041 Asuka | a place in the province Musashi, which had been the original
2042 Kamaku | qualities considered above muscular might, as the marks of true
2043 Asuka | probable, too, that in the Mussulman conquest of India, forcing
2044 Taoism | relativity of things and mutability of forms.~The book of Soshi,
2045 Meiji | Opposition, hushing both to mute reverence, even during their
2046 Nara | of Kiushu to the north of Mutsu.~The Empress Komio was highly
2047 Range | having no more ultimate or mutually exclusive validity than
2048 Meiji | archæologists unravelled the mysteries of ancient civilisations,
2049 Intro | China itself at the time of Nâgaruna in the second century A.D. -
2050 Toyoto | now for the first time the naive delight of a populace but
2051 Asuka | supported on their side by the Nakotomis, the ancestors of the Fujiwaras,
2052 | namely
2053 Kamaku | seen from the great Nioo of Nandaimon in Nara. The fine bronze
2054 Range | had its centre of power at Nankin, on the Yang-tse-Kiang;
2055 Toyoto | Tannyu and his brothers, Naonobu and Yasunobu, with their
2056 Range | the Empire of the first Napoleon.~The Hâng Dynasty (902 B.C.
2057 Taoism | prolific of military theory; a Napoleonic genius was devoted to the
2058 Range | Japan was developed in the Nara-Heian period, under the influence
2059 Buddhi | ridiculously further, and narrate in the Roshi-Kakokio, the
2060 Tokuga | Shoguns, was limited thus to a narrow round of expression. It
2061 Tokuga | that of the lowest peasant, narrowed and cramped artistic creativeness
2062 Buddhi | comprehensible that, as the narrower basis of Southern Buddhism,
2063 Meiji | the scheme of reawakened nationalisation. China and India, not to
2064 Buddhi | in contact with various nationalities and periods - even as the
2065 Meiji | of political squabbles - natural-unnatural children of a constitutional
2066 Ashika | ideas, before it could be naturalised on Celestial soil, and in
2067 Meiji | which laid its hand upon the naturalistic school of Kyoto through
2068 Fujiwa | declared that it was for strong natures and rare individuals to
2069 Asuka | admirals in the Japanese navy, cruising along their stations
2070 Meiji | these nations themselves nearer to the stars in the night
2071 Nara | splendour the actual life of nearly twelve hundred years ago.
2072 Heian | this intense fervour and nearness to the gods, such as is
2073 Confuc | But the slowly-defining necessities of an agricultural community,
2074 Buddhi | led for the most part to negative conclusions.~Asoka - the
2075 Buddhi | The great plain in the neighbourhood of Delhi, where the eighteen
2076 Ashika | birds, and~flowers. Thus Neo - Confucianism in China
2077 Ashika | mind, as represented by the Neo-Confucians, and the Japanese since
2078 Buddhi | of his birth, stands in Nepal, and was in his days even
2079 Primit | tribes forming the Thibetans, Nepalese, Siamese, and Burmese, and
2080 Taoism | lines take the place of nerves and arteries, and the whole
2081 Nara | equally honoured, when the Nestorian fathers were allowed to
2082 Range | For art, like the diamond net of Indra, reflects the whole
2083 Tokuga | Nara period. The inros, the netsukes, the sword-guards, and the
2084 Tokuga | hung on the obi or girdle.~Netsukis. - Ornamental buttons by
2085 Asuka | the fact that they stood neutral in the dispute. These disastrous
2086 Asuka | Sogas, were attended by the never-to-be-forgotten crime of impericide, and
2087 Kamaku | distinction were discarded in the new-born enthusiasm of individual
2088 Toyoto | delight of a populace but newly made free of the world of
2089 Nara | between the countries. The newly-opened route through Thibet, which
2090 Vista | features alone. It is a nexus of habits and associations,
2091 Toyoto | palace decorations of the Nijo Castle, and the Nishi Hoganji
2092 Meiji | its birth-mantle like a nimbus, lifts unconscious eyes
2093 | ninety
2094 Intro | subject of Japanese art in the ninth century, makes it abundantly
2095 Heian | We may also mention the Nioirin Kwannon of Kansinji, and
2096 Kamaku | may be seen from the great Nioo of Nandaimon in Nara. The
2097 Toyoto | Impressionism by two centuries, was nipped in the bud of its great
2098 Meiji | Sannyo. - Writer of the Nippon-Gaishi and the Nippon-Seiki, and
2099 Meiji | the Nippon-Gaishi and the Nippon-Seiki, and noted also for his
2100 Toyoto | the Nijo Castle, and the Nishi Hoganji Temple.~The breaking
2101 Heian | surmounted by two heads; Nitten, the Sun-God; Getten, the
2102 Intro | Mother, is for ever One.~NIVEDITA,~OF RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKÂNANDA.~
2103 Ashika | follow in the wake of these - Noami, Gaiami, Soami, Sotan, Keishoki,
2104 Meiji | purity of pre-Raphaelite nobleness. Thus the Japanese attempt
2105 Meiji | recovery of those subtler~and nobler visions of human life which
2106 Meiji | immovable and self-contained, nodding peace or destruction from
2107 Confuc | beating the sword of the nomad into the ploughshare of
2108 Confuc | just as the Tartars are nomadic Chinese - in settling, untold
2109 Confuc | fresh increments of Tartar nomads, and assimilate them to
2110 Buddhi | though he there preaches the non-existence of the finite self. The
2111 Nara(1)| Response in the Living and Non-Living." Longmans, 1902.~
2112 Intro | background of the great Norse sagas. At the same time,
2113 Asuka | clue to a great era,~when North-Western India was a central point
2114 Taoism | language, compared by the northerners to the croaking of ravens,
2115 Intro | of Germany, Holland, and Norway amongst ourselves. But he
2116 Asuka | the seventh century. One notable point about these kings
2117 Tokuga | this period first came to notice, instead of the grandeur
2118 Fujiwa | Known as the "Prophet of Nuddea," in Bengal, an ecstatic
2119 Primit | still to be seen in great numbers on the south-eastern coast
2120 Meiji | strange tenacity of the race, nurtured in the shadow of a sovereignty
2121 Confuc | the system of graduated obedience, and the peasant is of equal
2122 Tokuga | medicine-cases, to be hung on the obi or girdle.~Netsukis. - Ornamental
2123 Ashika | seek the Romantistic ideal objectively and materialistically; whereas
2124 Taoism | of duty, depicting mutual obligation as the law. The ideograph
2125 Asuka | receive the tribute, but was obliged to hesitate about accepting
2126 Asuka | Tokugawa period, which so obliterates the main points of the original
2127 Meiji | night of their material oblivion.~The double nature of the
2128 Nara | algebra and makes astronomical observations; the twelfth, brilliant
2129 Asuka | With regard to building, as observed before, Chinese palaces
2130 Meiji | up and re-expresses the obsolete Taoist idea, of the magician
2131 Meiji | were rendered difficult to obtain by the eagerness of the
2132 Ashika | the fire by the Zen who obtained enlightenment. Words were
2133 Toyoto | of unifying the empire by obtaining a hold over the capital
2134 Ashika | differing idiosyncrasies of the Occidental and the Oriental mind lead
2135 Vista | a throne whose imperial occupant - alone amongst the great
2136 Asuka | Chinese general, Roko, who had occupied the territory, though we
2137 Confuc | however, from the earlier occurrence of the name in Indian literature,
2138 Taoism | representative - for his ode on "The Return" was the
2139 Nara | that utters itself in the odes of Hitomaru and other Manyo
2140 Meiji | exhibitions of old chefs-d’œuvres, and conducted competitive
2141 Ashika | alike must have been but off-shoots from the common stem of
2142 Buddhi | like the bodhi-tree itself, offers every day a broader shelter
2143 Asuka | are signed by Yamaghuchi, Oguchi, Kusushi, and Toriko, of
2144 Taoism | were written by Kaan and Ohitsu, and though such thinkers
2145 Asuka | with due rites, whereas Okoshi of Mononobe, the father
2146 Meiji | statesmen like Iwakura and Okubo were not slow to condemn
2147 Meiji | they took to the stale and old-fashioned goods of Manchester.~The
2148 Asuka | imperial power, curtailed by oligarchic preponderance in the Soga
2149 Primit | the highland of Ama - an Olympus which had the Sun-Goddess
2150 Nara | Toshimi, Ritaihaku, and Omakitsu, who represent the poetic
2151 Heian | eleven-headed Kwannon of Toganji in Omi, is attributed to Saicho,
2152 Confuc | Christian era a~prime minister, Omo by name, ascended the Dragon
2153 Heian | of view of transcendent one-ness, becomes as sacred as self-sacrifice,
2154 Asuka | differences of aims~and opinions, though in a kindlier spirit.~
2155 Meiji | of unity at any cost. The opium war in China, and the gradual
2156 Taoism | produced great thinkers, quite opposed to the Confucian ideals.
2157 Asuka | torrent of Isui, and on the opposite bank is a little temple
2158 Intro | spontaneity by a thousand years of oppression, should have lost her place
2159 Vista | mystery spoken by the Delphic Oracle. "All in thyself," said
2160 Ashika | number, the small chorus and orchestra being seated on the stage
2161 Meiji | whose august direction a new ordeal, unlike any in the annals
2162 Fujiwa | of Saints, while for the ordinary masses a prayer, even a
2163 Meiji | European science, with her organised culture, armed in all its
2164 Meiji | a paramount duty to the organisers of the new Japan. Not only
2165 Intro | but as a united living organism, each part dependent on
2166 Asuka | process that has so robbed the Orient of her prestige, leading
2167 Ashika | conquest was completely orientalised, in passing from that which
2168 Meiji | bound her in the maya of Orientalism, so dangerous to national
2169 Ashika | it would be their joy to ornament an ink-box, for instance,
2170 Asuka | followed the Indian method of ornamentation, for regarding them we read
2171 Nara | be seen a silver Amida, ornamented with amber, pearls, and
2172 Tokuga | routine, departure meant ostracism, which would~reduce the
2173 Toyoto | attempts to reach Kyoto.~Ota-Nobunaga, who, with Toyotomi~ ./.
2174 | otherwise
2175 Asuka | of the new religion. The Otomos, who were hereditary admirals
2176 Meiji | upon it by the rise of the Ottoman Turks, and on the other
2177 Nara | stones, is a statue~which ought also to be mentioned amongst
2178 | ourselves
2179 Confuc | China, by a tribe from the out-lands~known as Shin, whose importance
2180 Tokuga | and versatility, made by Outamaro, Shunman, Kionobu, Harunobu,
2181 Nara | phenomena, and one of the first outcomes is an elaborate psychology
2182 Meiji | friendship, was a natural outgrowth of the new national vigour,
2183 Asuka | Indian type looked at first outlandish to the Chinese mind, and
2184 Heian | rubbish found within the outline represented the imperfections
2185 Intro | more synthetic method and outlook may correct many of the
2186 Primit | invasion of some of the outlying islands. Then, while the
2187 Toyoto | their size and magnificence, outshone the simpler dwellings even
2188 Ashika | as hidden within than as outwardly expressed, even as the life
2189 Kamaku | time presented, in order to over-awe the rising populace, who
2190 Kamaku | severe asceticism of that over-awing popedom which held the Western
2191 Heian | as a protest against the over-monasticising of life. In~paragraph continues]
2192 Kamaku | effeminate complexity left by the over-refined~formalism of the Fujiwaras.
2193 Fujiwa | to inferiors, for to the over-refinement of the time it appeared
2194 Asuka | root in China, when the over-running of the North by the Hunnish
2195 Primit | and from the tendency to overburdened richness of Indian art.
2196 Intro | Buddhism, as it proceeds to overflow and unite the whole. We
2197 Primit | and conquest that was to overpass the Ural ranges into Moscow.
2198 Range | which, under Kublai Khan, overpowered the Chinese dynasty and
2199 Meiji | would you do - you with your overpowering love for these great masters -
2200 Range | North, to break upon and overrun the Punjab. The Hunas, the
2201 Meiji | first Emperor of Ming who overthrew the Mongol dynasty in China
2202 Nara | century saw Vikramaditya overthrow the Hunas and awaken in
2203 Meiji | generals and soldiers who overturned the Shogunate, though honour
2204 Nara | where neither attempts to overwhelm the other, and thus becomes
2205 Heian | influence at the period is overwhelming, in art as in religion.~
2206 Intro | expression Japan has~ever owed to China; it is Mr. Okakura'
2207 Buddhi | understood that Buddhism, owing to its special definition
2208 Taoism | a race fierce and free, owning no allegiance to the kings
2209 Asuka | divided before reaching the Oxus, into the northern and southern
2210 Asuka | known in Indian Buddhism as Padmapani, the Lotus-Holder, in contrast
2211 Confuc | is al~most a forbidden page to the agnostic Confucius,
2212 Meiji | which tolerates the gorgeous pageantry of Toyotomi, even while
2213 Fujiwa | Jodo, where, free from the pains and evils of this wretched
2214 Taoism | sought for a distinguished painter to execute a picture. One
2215 Tokuga | artists who were appointed painters-in-ordinary to the Tokugawas.~Inros. -
2216 Toyoto | hundred sets" belonging to the palace-castle are still preserved, as
2217 Toyoto | glory of Nikko would have paled before it, because the Nikko
2218 Nara | extension of the empire on the Pamirs, and the number of pilgrims
2219 Buddhi | war between the Kurus and Pandavas. This war must have occurred
2220 Toyoto | and Itcho, noted for his panegyrics on the life of the day,
2221 Ashika | To this impulse, Greek Pantheistic philosophy in all its phases
2222 Intro | RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKÂNANDA.~17 BORIC PARA LANE,~BAGH BAZAAR, CALCUTTA.~
2223 Meiji | independence, seemed like a paramount duty to the organisers of
2224 Vista | drought of modern vulgarity is parching the throat of life and art.~
2225 Confuc | with the emperor - that parental autocrat whose virtues have
2226 Intro | case with our own English parish churches only too recently.~
2227 Intro | voice heard in the Chicago Parliament of Religions in 1893, Orthodox
2228 Kamaku | consist of aphorisms or part-aphorisms, and are necessarily obscure
2229 Ashika | itself, and the works of the Parthenon, with the immortal stones
2230 Asuka | Arsaie, the land of the Parthians. He is followed by others
2231 Intro | in which the whole nation participates; even as in India, the whole
2232 Ashika | rise of great political parties in the empire, thus weakening
2233 Ashika | of experience were but a pastime, and his strong soul could
2234 Confuc | divided being called Boku or pastors. They believed in a patriarchal
2235 Primit | island, by the eight-rayed pathway of the clouds, thus intensifying
2236 Buddhi | before it was removed to Patna, within the province now
2237 Confuc | pastors. They believed in a patriarchal God, symbolised by Ten or
2238 Meiji | restoration glows with the fire of Patriotism, a great rebirth of the
2239 Buddhi | with Asiatic toleration he patronised their opponents also, and
2240 Asuka | still preserves the old Hang patterns found in early dolmens.~
2241 Ashika | night and nature, where pause is more significant than
2242 Ashika | masters, though the way was paved for them by Shitibun, noted
2243 Taoism | sake, to work at the forge, paying no attention to the illustrious
2244 Nara | ornamented with amber, pearls, and various precious stones,
2245 Vista | personal drama. The Japanese peasant-traveller,~again, goes from no place
2246 Vista | the West, the name of her peasants a synonym for prosperity;
2247 Intro | already deep in the problems peculiar to Indian archæology, however,
2248 Vista | of the craftsman and the pedlar, of the village market and
2249 Primit | deprived of the Egyptian, the Pelasgian, or the Persian background?
2250 Meiji | tonnage, and caused the penalty of death to threaten any
2251 Ashika | more true than the austere penances of the mediæval hermit,
2252 Kamaku | like that of the knight of Pendragon, in poetic mist, so as to
2253 Buddhi | its companion movement, penetrated Burmah and Siam., and, returning
2254 Meiji | Majesty, to whose far-sighted penetration Japan owes much~of her modern
2255 Fujiwa | way to Japan, till now the pent-up energy of this assimilated
2256 Nara | the place of the direct perception of the beautiful. But for
2257 Primit | upon Japan to surrender. A peremptory refusal was followed by
2258 Kamaku | teaching of the Zen sect (perfected under the Sung dynasty,
2259 Buddhi | the other false, but it is perfectly comprehensible that, as
2260 Ashika | on which the No-dance is performed is made of hard, unpainted
2261 Buddhi | occasion to touch in the Nara period-begins in the fourth century under
2262 Confuc | development, to receive periodically fresh increments of Tartar
2263 Meiji | personifications of loyalty who had perished, like Masashige, in glorious
2264 Fujiwa | argument that yellow light must permeate the regions of Amida.~Its
2265 Nara | expected wherever there is a permeation of the Indian spirit, when
2266 Asuka | alien gods. Thus they got permission to burn its accessories
2267 Vista | mass of Western thought perplexes us. The mirror of Yamato
2268 Meiji | of the American Commodore~Perry finally opened the flood-gates
2269 Taoism | initiated the awful series of persecutions which were so disastrous
2270 Buddhi | Mesopotamians, Chinese, and Persians, the last of whom are but
2271 Fujiwa | such dreamland could long persist! The storm was already brewing
2272 Nara | succeed, she is said to have personally directed the pouring of
2273 Meiji | worship of those heroic personifications of loyalty who had perished,
2274 Meiji | knowledge of anatomy and perspective, the commissariat that sustains
2275 Asuka | Indian ideal which is to pervade them all - thus epitomising
2276 Ashika | the vital principle that pervaded the universe - sparkling
2277 Buddhi | great soul and light which pervades the All. This is a doctrine
2278 Ashika | theory of Ri and Ki, the all pervading Law, and the working Spirit.
2279 Asuka | Mukobara for a time. But the pestilence and famine which raged in
2280 Nara | We can still see, on the petals of the lotus daïs, the various
2281 Meiji | of organisation, and the petty jealousies of rival interests -
2282 Heian | one side to Tantrikism and phallic worship, it forms on the
2283 Ashika | destroying~not only the phantom moon, but also themselves.
2284 Ashika | with the immortal stones of Phidias and Praxiteles, are its
2285 Meiji | colossal works on grammar and philology modern scholars find little
2286 Taoism | request for hours; when philosophers would betake themselves,
2287 Heian | continues] Japan the new philosophical standpoint was an advance
2288 Confuc | of Heaven and Earth, thus philosophising communism. The Taoist, on
2289 Intro | west of Ireland, Etruria, Phœnicia, Egypt, India, and China.
2290 Nara | surrounded as it is by golden phoenixes with bells in their mouths.
2291 Nara | from their having given phonetic values to the Chinese ideographs,
2292 Nara | Jagadis Chunder Bose the physicist. 1~In the era which we are
2293 Buddhi | the Indian.~The lofty iron pillar of Asoka at Delhi-strange
2294 Vista | people were feeling the pinch of famine. It lies in the
2295 Primit | ocean echoing about its pine-girt shores - of all these was
2296 Toyoto | processions of Hideyoshi. Huge pines were painted on a scale
2297 Buddhi | and sectarian pride and pious frauds have stained, each
2298 Fujiwa | Romans. The suppression of pirates in the Inland Sea also called
2299 Toyoto | land, and some from the piratical captains who were such a
2300 Ashika | is more significant than pitch, are there. Such dim utterances,
2301 Nara | the small but necessary pivot!"~This was an age of toleration,
2302 Buddhi | of the Kurus. - The great plain in the neighbourhood of
2303 Primit | effort on another and higher plane.~What Japanese art would
2304 Toyoto | foremost was that of Osaka, planned by Hideyoshi himself, the
2305 Toyoto | of stone castles, whose plans were influenced by Portuguese
2306 Buddhi | correlative attempts at plastic actualisation. This idea
2307 Kamaku | imagination of a later day with~ plausible grounds for identifying
2308 Ashika | Masks are worn by the chief players - who might almost better
2309 Ashika | goes serenely on his way, playing a simple melody on the flute -
2310 Tokuga | articles of the period, were playthings, and as such no embodiment
2311 Fujiwa | carried it to its culmination, pleaded that human nature~was weak
2312 Fujiwa | aristocracy of the court - pleading in their extreme effeminacy
2313 Taoism | amiable statesman being pleased to indulge him in his request
2314 Toyoto | imposed their limitations on plebeian conceptions. In this age
2315 Confuc | culture that had covered the ploughlands for many a day.~Yet the
2316 Confuc | sword of the nomad into the ploughshare of the peasant, weakens
2317 Nara | Buddha, she says, "If I pluck them, the touch of my hand
2318 Taoism | unconscious fragrance of plum-flowers floating on the twilight
2319 Toyoto | forests, the birds of gorgeous plumage, and the lions and tigers
2320 Meiji | awaited the country, were it plunged rashly or unequipped into
2321 Ashika | Confucian justification of all, plus the new spirit of individualism,
2322 Ashika | general idealisation. The poem deals with historical subjects,
2323 Taoism | my man!"~Kogaishi was a poet-painter, of the latter part of the
2324 Fujiwa | and Komachi, the great sad poetess, whose life exemplifies
2325 Ashika | pure, serene, immovable, pointing ever to the polar star -
2326 Ashika | immovable, pointing ever to the polar star - was the ideal of
2327 Taoism | display of these, the mutual polarities of Asiatic thought.~The
2328 Meiji | women to pray and men to polish their swords, now groaning
2329 Heian | made offering daily of the pomegranate, under a strange interpretation
2330 Nara | the collection a miniature Pompeii or Herculaneum without their
2331 Kamaku | asceticism of that over-awing popedom which held the Western conscience
2332 Intro | metalwork, bronze casting, and porcelain, are carried on, besides
2333 Taoism | origin of the wonderful porcelain-glaze of China to their accidental
2334 Meiji | reawakening was undoubtedly that portentous danger with which Western
2335 Buddhi | gigantic pillars and elaborate porticos which successive architects
2336 Buddhi | erected, as each added his portion to the edifice of faith.
2337 Intro | life and movement of the portrayal having been left to be worked
2338 Ashika | somewhat conventionally portrayed on the background. Thus
2339 Toyoto | plans were influenced by Portuguese engineers. Of these, the
2340 Toyoto | degenerates into formalism and posing.~We find in Korin's life
2341 Ashika | instincts and political positions, went forth to seek the
2342 Buddhi | ideal personality.~In the post-Asokan period in India we find
2343 Confuc | so greatly lamented by posterity, was not in fact due to
2344 Heian | represented Vairochana; the postulant, the potential Vairochana;
2345 Buddhi | particular, we have already postulated all the differentiations
2346 Taoism | garments sat down in some rough posture before calling for his brushes
2347 Confuc | who was beating an earthen pot, simply for the pleasure
2348 Nara | in the present day is so potent to free it from the hard
2349 Heian | Vairochana; the postulant, the potential Vairochana; pictures of
2350 Taoism | expeditions to search for the potion of immortality in the Eastern
2351 Nara | twenty thousand Japanese pounds of the precious metal to
2352 Buddhi | the natural sequence, to pour water on the head of the
2353 Buddhi | ravine, through which India pours her intellectual torrents
2354 Fujiwa | completely unmasked the powerlessness of the Fujiwara court. The
2355 Taoism | Mountains, who by strange practices, and the discovery of a
2356 Ashika | immortal stones of Phidias and Praxiteles, are its purest expression.
2357 Asuka | Afterwards the form becomes pre-eminently that of woman and mother.
2358 Confuc | the fruit of causes long pre-existent; and in him we have only
2359 Ashika | culminating ideal of the pre-Fujiwara periods of Japanese art
2360 Fujiwa | prevalent in the Asuka or pre-Nara period, when perfection
2361 Meiji | interpreted the purity of pre-Raphaelite nobleness. Thus the Japanese
2362 Meiji | letters led art back to the pre-Tokugawa schools, transcending the
2363 Buddhi | not deny, though he there preaches the non-existence of the
2364 Meiji | scholarship, following this great precedent, turned its gaze backwards
2365 Meiji | the Greco-Roman culture precipitated upon it by the rise of the
2366 Fujiwa | assimilated culture was precipitating the race upon the evolution
2367 Ashika | though lacking perhaps in precision, have nevertheless an inevitable
2368 Heian | went further than their predecessors, in the effort to demonstrate
2369 Nara | Anarajapura shows the contemporary predominance of the full Gupta type all
2370 Ashika | of Buddhism, which became predominant during the Kamakura period.
2371 Confuc | moment, lost as it is in prehistoric night, to the present day,
2372 Asuka | with the superstitions and prejudices natural to their barbaric
2373 Vista | through the succeeding preliminary phases of Nara and Heian,
2374 Asuka | curtailed by oligarchic preponderance in the Soga period, was
2375 Asuka | with each other in Buddhist presents, and Wumako, the son of
2376 Buddhi | latter of whom had acted as~president of Kanishka's council. Nagarjuna
2377 Nara | this period, was a sculptor presumably from Ceylon, and the similarity
2378 Intro | But he would admit, we may presume, that it might have remained
2379 Buddhi | earliest sûtras, and remarkable presumptive evidence. The Taoists even
2380 Asuka | the ensuing year gave a pretext to the enemies of the Sogas,
2381 Tokuga | fancy. It is because the prettiness of the works of this period
2382 Fujiwa | of the Buddhistic idea, prevalent in the Asuka or pre-Nara
2383 Fujiwa | close of the Tâng dynasty, prevented the exchange of diplomatic
2384 Fujiwa | found them then an easy prey, and all their power and
2385 Heian | temple of Kyoto, amongst its priceless treasures, and are deeply
2386 Ashika | under-garments, as the Samurai prided themselves on keeping wonderful
2387 Kamaku | their own clansmen, wore a priestly garment over their armour,
2388 Buddhi | with the ascendency of the primary~group and the fact that
2389 Confuc | the natural outcome of a primeval Chinese culture, which had
2390 Meiji | honour is due also to the princely house of Mito and to Echizen
2391 Asuka | have passed, his surviving princesses, with their damsels, working
2392 Confuc | enumerate the glories of the principal cities of the empire, and
2393 Vista | human intercourse, not the printed index, as the true means
2394 Tokuga | Natural School of Kyoto.~Dutch prints were eagerly sought and
2395 Confuc | texts. That there was a prior stream of influence is attested
2396 Intro | degrading disputes about priority, and Greece falls into her
2397 Primit | torans, are preserved in pristine exactness by having their
2398 Meiji | granted them hereditary privileges, were quite unable to assimilate
2399 Intro | stream of Buddhism, as it proceeds to overflow and unite the
2400 Toyoto | wayside for miles during the processions of Hideyoshi. Huge pines
2401 Asuka | constitution. This document proclaims the duty of devotion to
2402 Nara | breadth of Japan, bearing that proclamation of the Sovereign which announces
2403 Kamaku | statues, so significant a production of the heroic age, now claim
2404 Ashika | different aspect from the productions of the two preceding phases.
2405 Tokuga | hereditary lord, who followed his profession, and, whether or not he
2406 Tokuga | came from the hands of a professional, and prized the playful
2407 Meiji | masters, themselves renowned professors of the chief Kano academy
2408 Meiji | growth. That eagerness and profound admiration for Western knowledge
2409 Confuc | with caryatided pillars and profuse carving, representative
2410 Meiji | moment some new and greater programme, surround us with a labyrinth
2411 Confuc | in the midst of their own progressive development, to receive
2412 Asuka | Meiji restoration, when progressives and conservatives fought
2413 Meiji | Shimabara, had brought about the prohibition against building seafaring
2414 Nara | Sovereign which announces the project of the great Roshana Buddha
2415 Taoism | Machiavelli. The period was prolific of military theory; a Napoleonic
2416 Vista | shadows of the past are the promise of the future. No tree can
2417 Asuka | enemies of the Sogas, who promptly declared that such disasters
2418 Asuka | with Yéon, assisted in the promulgation of the faith in Amida, or
2419 Heian | they made the Word, or the pronouncing of sacred charms, which
2420 Ashika | modern significance.~It is a proof of the reality of the individualism
2421 Asuka | as head priests, or more properly, custodians, of the ancestral
2422 Fujiwa | Chaitanya. - Known as the "Prophet of Nuddea," in Bengal, an
2423 Taoism | Troy in the eyes of the prophetess, and we cannot refrain from
2424 Nara | grandeur and harmony of proportion. In them we find the sources
2425 Confuc | scholar will recall the rhymed prose of Shibasojo and Soshimon,
2426 Taoism | works, with their dry and prosy maxims. He speaks of the
2427 Range | insular isolation which protected ancestral ideas and instincts
2428 Primit | brave the seas, for the protection of the tributary kingdoms
2429 Fujiwa | Teresa and some of the modern Protestant sects may stand as examples.~
2430 Intro | intellectual freedom of Protestantism - culminating in natural
2431 Range | sculptures of Ellora, the silent protests of rock-cut Orissa, and
2432 Taoism | think of the "Cassandra" of Protogenes, that master of~strong line,
2433 Intro | national inspiration. They hold proudly that their work will compare
2434 Taoism | image of Laotse. All this proves that in this early period
2435 Confuc | as in China, Confucianism provided the soil on which the seed
2436 Confuc | tradition of imperialism, which provides for its own purposes that
2437 Intro | into Europe and America, providing for the future a religious
2438 Kamaku | others, not only in martial prowess, but in the power of self-conquest,
2439 Intro | art in opposition to that pseudo-Europeanising tendency now so fashionable
2440 Ashika | allegorical idealisation of the pseudo-renaissance. It was neither a mannerism,~
2441 Range | consist, very largely, of psychic phenomena and kindred matters,
2442 Nara | outcomes is an elaborate psychology treating of the evolution
2443 Nara | Emperor, who called himself publicly "Slave of the Trinity,"
2444 Confuc | sovereign in history to publish an edict abolishing slavery,
2445 Ashika | then one with nature, whose pulse they felt beating simultaneously
2446 Range | break upon and overrun the Punjab. The Hunas, the Sakas, and
2447 Toyoto | Yeitoku, with his multitude~of pupils, worked on, painting the
2448 Nara | to clothe Hinduism with puranic lore.~Buddhist art now assumes
2449 Kamaku | retribution. Pictures of purgatory~and the horrors of hell
2450 Ashika | us, was not the ascetic purism of the early Christian fathers,
2451 Asuka | wood and lacquer paste, and purporting to have been presented by
2452 Tokuga | Kano lords. Each had to pursue the course of studies laid
2453 Ashika | the Shu and Hang dynasties pursued sublime effects in their
2454 Intro | recall Asiatic peoples to the pursuit of those proper ends which
2455 Taoism | not unaddicted to similar pursuits, and time after~time erected
2456 Primit | Aryan~ ./. emigrants who pushed through the Kashmirian passes,
2457 Taoism | have come to honour them by putting weighty questions for solution.
2458 Nara | this day in Japan, in a quaint folk-story of three travellers
2459 Range | itself a heritage which qualified it to imbibe from the two
2460 Kamaku | and charity, which were qualities considered above muscular
2461 Heian | Benten, with her vina, which quells the waves; Kompira, or the
2462 Meiji | knowledge was not to be quenched. The task of preparing for
2463 Vista | All in thyself," said the quiet voice of Confucius. And
2464 Intro | eighteen centuries, so," to quote the great Indian thinker
2465 Meiji | School.~The ancient spirit of race-myths and historic chronicles
2466 Primit | colony. But the rock of our race-pride and organic union has stood
2467 Nara | paper, you from India the radiating sticks, and our Japanese
2468 Meiji | orthodox conservatism or radical Europeanisation imposed
2469 Ashika | winds which make it foam and rage, but only to settle down
2470 Meiji | new garb, discarding the raiment of her ancient past. To
2471 Meiji | like the fresh verdure of a rain-swept summer. Yet~ ./. the vicissitudes
2472 Ashika | vessel, through which the rainbow of the Great Existence is
2473 Nara | sound of the tools that are raising the image of Buddha let
2474 Range | Gettaes, grim ancestors of the Rajputs, had been the forerunners
2475 Fujiwa | the Allies. Choan, with Rakuio or Loyang, formed the two
2476 Intro | for ever One.~NIVEDITA,~OF RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKÂNANDA.~17 BORIC PARA LANE,~BAGH
2477 Taoism | the spirit of Laoism was rampant. New commentaries on the
2478 Heian | the worship of physical rapture.~This movement was first
2479 Fujiwa | was for strong natures and rare individuals to develop by
2480 Meiji | country, were it plunged rashly or unequipped into warlike
2481 Meiji | to condemn the wholesale ravages which this frenzied love
2482 Taoism | northerners to the croaking of ravens, were matters of ridicule,
2483 Nara | Banabhatta, and the Jain Ravikirti, creating that richness
2484 Buddhi | like some great mountain ravine, through which India pours
2485 Taoism | hiding its noble soul in deep ravines, or seeking for spring in
2486 Meiji | figures which the slanting rays of sunset cast on the ground
2487 Primit | energy for the~acceptance and re-application of the influence received,
2488 Meiji | this moment Japan, in the re-awakened consciousness of her national
2489 Tokuga | younger branch, Sumiyoshi, was re-established with hereditary honours
2490 Meiji | Sotatsu. It takes up and re-expresses the obsolete Taoist idea,
2491 Heian | shows their absorption and re-expression in the national life as
2492 Vista | this self-recognition that re-made Japan, and enabled her to
2493 Intro | the direction of a strong re-nationalising of Japanese art in opposition
2494 Range | latter in the age of the reactionary Ming, this fact animates
2495 Meiji | Kamakura period, and the reader was already stirred to long
2496 Meiji | spread the knowledge of reading and writing to all boys
2497 Meiji | that the nation was not ready for fool-hardy self-assertion.
2498 Tokuga | differentiate him.~Ganku, another realist, ancestor of the Kisshi
2499 Ashika | they set up semblances for realities. This thought was often
2500 Ashika | significance.~It is a proof of the reality of the individualism of
2501 Confuc | lions, brought from distant realms, their banquets and dancers,
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