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2502 Buddhi | individuality, we shall think it reasonable to look for a certain antithesis,
2503 Ashika | breaks forth anew. Life reasserts itself in the centrifugal
2504 Intro | of labour. But it is very reassuring to he told by a competent
2505 Meiji | a place in the scheme of reawakened nationalisation. China and
2506 Meiji | second cause of the national reawakening was undoubtedly that portentous
2507 Range | Pekin. Having put down the rebellion of the generals, they could
2508 Range | weakness of this house, and rebellions against their power have
2509 Meiji | fire of Patriotism, a great rebirth of the national religion
2510 Vista | was first bestowed, as the receiver and concentrator, by her
2511 | recent
2512 Ashika | representations of Hell, given in recitative to a simple accompaniment.
2513 Buddhi | and Egypt, deliberately recognising Buddhism as its unifying
2514 Range | Tartar hordes, whose waves recoiled from the long walls of the
2515 Range | dynasty was the result of the reconsolidation of China under the great
2516 Buddhi | little effort is spent in reconstructing the idea of that great splendour
2517 Meiji | Renaissance. Thus the first reconstructive movement of the Meiji period
2518 Toyoto | their swords; some were recruited from the banditti of the
2519 Asuka | two kinds exist, one the rectangular and the other the circular
2520 Nara | and as it is cut out of red sand-stone, most of the
2521 Range | religion which could reach and redeem the lowest of the low.~Hâng
2522 Tokuga | meant ostracism, which would~reduce the artist to the position
2523 Meiji | Shogunate, which had almost reduced them to the position of
2524 Taoism | to each other amongst the reeds. Above all, they bring forth
2525 Nara | specimen of the time we shall refer to the gigantic Roshana
2526 Primit | and the Sword. - The tree referred to is the Sakaki, or tree
2527 Ashika | lake, clear to its bottom, reflecting the clouds that hover over
2528 Range | the diamond net of Indra, reflects the whole chain in every
2529 Buddhi | continues] India, till the reflux from Siam, a few centuries
2530 Nara | the routes; and a general reform of interior administration
2531 Meiji | new world, the birth of a reformed faith, and the rise of the
2532 Meiji | Political theories and social reforms, worn~out in the land of
2533 Taoism | prophetess, and we cannot refrain from saying that European
2534 Vista | pictures the Boddhi-Sattva as refraining from Nirvana till the last
2535 Vista | raindrops of a new vigour must refresh the earth before new flowers
2536 Meiji | afforded shelter to the refugees who escaped to them from
2537 Primit | surrender. A peremptory refusal was followed by an invasion
2538 Asuka | great Bodhi-Sattvas, who refuse Nirvana until the salvation
2539 Meiji | China, before attempting the regeneration of the native political
2540 Kamaku | lived in the trans-Hakone region of the so-called Eastern
2541 Taoism | us, with an ineffaceable regret. We think of the "Cassandra"
2542 Tokuga | constituted on the plan of regular feudal tenures. Each academy
2543 Confuc | service examinations, a regulation which has come down to the
2544 Asuka | From the accession of the reigning Emperor in 1867 to the present
2545 Range | caste of musicians called Reijiu, who are attached to the
2546 Buddhi | travelled~to India, and there reincarnated himself as Gautama!~At any
2547 Confuc | literature, that he only reinforced its use. He has the distinction
2548 Vista | this moment some mighty reinforcement, for the scorching drought
2549 Fujiwa | magistrates who actually held the reins of government, and ultimately
2550 Meiji | formalism and meaningless reiteration. On the other hand, that
2551 Asuka | proposed that they should reject it with its embassy of escort.~
2552 Taoism | Yang-tse. His counsels were rejected by the King of So, and he
2553 Meiji | of individuality, which rejoices always to play an original
2554 Taoism | characteristic by Soshi. He relates a story of a great noble
2555 Buddhi | of opposites, the mutual relations of Northern and Southern
2556 Heian | throwing all others into relative subordination.~The idea
2557 Nara | regulated on a sounder basis, relays of horses being established
2558 Ashika | trend of the Japanese mind released from Confucian formalism,
2559 Fujiwa | administration of justice was relegated to the lower orders. Governors
2560 Asuka | sculptures are in low and in high relief, and the main figures are
2561 Ashika | Under these conditions, relieved only by slight comic interludes,
2562 Asuka | three years to hear the remark of the public. That there
2563 Buddhi | Maya, is a religious idea remarkably retentive of scientific
2564 Asuka | at the top, in striking reminder of the description by Gensho (
2565 Primit | their toris and rails so reminiscent of Indian torans, are preserved
2566 Confuc | the aim of the subject to remonstrate, but to hint, and of all
2567 Confuc | bourgeois level, since from the remotest danger of such a failure
2568 Asuka | province, until its final removal to Nara in 710 A.D. And
2569 Vista | Takakura, Emperor of Japan, remove his sleeping-robes on a
2570 Nara | resound in Heaven! Let it rend the earth asunder! For the
2571 Meiji | his history, which were rendered difficult to obtain by the
2572 Nara | which finds in the Japanese rendering of the same themes, not
2573 Meiji | stormy will its law, now rending the skies in its agonies
2574 Primit | exactness by having their youth renewed every two decades in their
2575 Kamaku | of war, and the noble who renounced the world~became one of
2576 Intro | of steam and electricity, repeat itself in a few decades
2577 Confuc | when the old conditions are repeated.~For many ages after their
2578 Toyoto | conflicting movements, and replace the Ashikaga Shoguns in
2579 Asuka | Asuka temple, which history reports to~have been cast in the
2580 Range | expansion, made Japan the real repository of the trust of Asiatic
2581 Fujiwa | capital, Kyoto, leaving their representatives and henchmen to take charge
2582 Meiji | days of the small Italian Republics, when each struggled to
2583 Buddhi | before Pali. But, as if to repudiate it~with his own lips, he
2584 Asuka | now a scholar of great repute, who proved able to explain
2585 Taoism | pleased to indulge him in his request for hours; when philosophers
2586 Kamaku | simplified in order to meet the requirements of this new age. The Jodo
2587 Kamaku | its source is hidden. A reserve as of religion seals the
2588 Asuka | were lodged in the palace reserved for alien subjects in Loyang,
2589 Meiji | village~schools under the resident village priests, had laid
2590 Confuc | the peasant, weakens the resistive powers of the new citizen,
2591 Heian | that into it all were alike resolvable - was too subtle for the
2592 Nara | the image of Buddha let it resound in Heaven! Let it rend the
2593 Intro | in sharp contrast in this respect to that of Germany, Holland,
2594 Asuka | vassal Mei, King of Kudara, respectfully sends this vassal of your
2595 Ashika | in the particular, became resplendent with that original glory
2596 Nara(1)| Author of "Response in the Living and Non-Living."
2597 Meiji | to the grand problems and responsibilities which await us as the new
2598 Asuka | national customs. For the responsibility of government usually remained
2599 Taoism | they talked - can be held responsible for that cult known as Taoism,
2600 Nara | vastness of the universe, resting and centring itself upon
2601 Intro | capable of bringing about its restitution. Therefore is it of supreme
2602 Vista | needs. Like all genuine restorations, it is a reaction with a
2603 Asuka | in spite of having been restored a century later. The pagodas
2604 Vista | becomes that of protecting and restoring Asiatic modes. But to do
2605 Kamaku | chivalry, its woman-worship restricted by Oriental notions of decorum,
2606 Confuc | the whole, was necessarily restrictive of the freedom of art. Enchained
2607 Confuc | the Chinese Tartars still retained a pastoral notion of government,
2608 Asuka | circular type, the latter still retaining the form of the original
2609 Buddhi | religious idea remarkably retentive of scientific effort, and
2610 Taoism | period when learned men retired to discuss philosophy in
2611 Taoism | hear of the greatness of retiring into self and~freeing ego
2612 Kamaku | grosser representations of retribution. Pictures of purgatory~and
2613 Meiji | before it touches with revealing hands that mask under which
2614 Vista | of Nara and Heian, to the revelation of her vast powers in the
2615 Tokuga | with Blake-like instinct, revelled in wild imagery based on
2616 Meiji | of Fujiwara culture, and revels at the same time in the
2617 Meiji | of nature as mystic and reverent as it is passionate and
2618 Fujiwa | state to trouble their sweet reveries, the court aristocracy found
2619 Meiji | that the Emperor tried to revert to pure Confucianism. Thus
2620 Tokuga | great heights are when he reverts unconsciously to those methods
2621 Range | understand it, we must pass in review the various phases of Confucian
2622 Meiji | stirred to long for the revindication of the imperial power.~A
2623 Meiji | ideals, but also to feel and revivify the dormant life of the
2624 Meiji | glaze of Kozan is not only reviving the lost secrets of early
2625 Fujiwa | reaction, and the movement of revolt coincided with a renewal
2626 Fujiwa | barons of succeeding ages. Revolts in the North gave an opportunity
2627 Confuc | scholar will recall the rhymed prose of Shibasojo and Soshimon,
2628 Ashika | thinkers as their theory of Ri and Ki, the all pervading
2629 Primit | The waters of the waving rice-fields, the variegated contour
2630 Confuc | form, though tinged by that richer colouring and magnificent
2631 Taoism | ravens, were matters of ridicule, even as late as the period
2632 Taoism | attacking them. Thus he ridicules the Confucian polity and
2633 Meiji | by the pathetic and the ridiculous.~The wild whirlpool of individualism,
2634 Buddhi | evidence. The Taoists even go ridiculously further, and narrate in
2635 Kamaku | of the notion of feudal rights and individual consciousness.
2636 Kamaku | some heroic character, is rigorous in its rude simplicity,
2637 Tokuga | Yedo (Tokyo), it was de rigueur for these students, returning
2638 Taoism | was due to the labours of Rikujusei and Sokensi in the early
2639 Nara | the first embrace was to ring from Ujjain to Choan and
2640 Ashika | The doctrines of Baso and Rinzai are clearly demarcated from
2641 Asuka | country. Shibatatsu, of the Rio dynasty in Southern China,
2642 Ashika | and Kakei, in Mokkei and Riokai, whose small works express
2643 Heian | Saidaiji in Nara, with the Riokaimandara of Senjuin, of the same
2644 Asuka | pagoda built in wood by Rioken, in 217 A.D., must have
2645 Toyoto | Korin, through his very ripeness, degenerates into formalism
2646 Intro | which has left its uttermost ripple-marks alike on the shores of Hellas,
2647 Buddhi | him from all those other rishis and sannyasins who preached
2648 Nara | of Asoka. A century later Rissemin (Taiso), the first Tâng
2649 Primit | of Gods, was the simple rite of ancestor-worship - honouring
2650 Ashika | sense of ignoring forms and rituals, for Buddhist images were
2651 Range | in which merge all the river-systems of Eastern Asiatic thought -
2652 Meiji | arts follow closely on this road. The wonderful glaze of
2653 Taoism | stop his coach before a roadside tavern in order to drink
2654 Vista | herself, along the ancient roadways of the race, that the great
2655 Confuc | the pastoral nations who roam between the Amoor and the
2656 Taoism | the Infinite - the tiger roaring his incessant~challenge
2657 Kamaku | been the great influence in robbing Japanese chivalry of its
2658 Taoism | disliked wearing a ceremonial robe to receive an imperial representative -
2659 Taoism | and laying upon this the rock-pigments, which were accentuated
2660 Buddhi | school, whether seen in the rock-temples of Orissa and the rails
2661 Confuc | from the roughly-chiselled rocks of the Burioshi in Shantung,
2662 Nara | magnificence against the rocky precipice of the wonderful
2663 Asuka | influence of a Chinese general, Roko, who had occupied the territory,
2664 Primit | offered her the intellectual rôle of a Chinese province or
2665 Kamaku | the form of makimonos, or rolls, in which the pictures are
2666 Buddhi | tiles to widen the great roof that, like the bodhi-tree
2667 Primit | It modified the tilted roofs of Chinese architecture
2668 Taoism | who burst rudely into the room, and throwing off his garments
2669 Buddhi | veins, that he embodied the root-idea of that race, and in thereby
2670 Buddhi | which is complete culture rooted and practised in an extreme
2671 Meiji | powerful holders of the ropes at the helm of the state
2672 Vista | continuous as a mala, a rosary, of crystals. From the early
2673 Meiji | civilisations, through the Rosetta Stone.~The memory of the
2674 Buddhi | further, and narrate in the Roshi-Kakokio, the Book of the Conversion
2675 Range | as they have been by the rough-handedness of the Hunas, the fanatical
2676 Confuc | richness and maturity from the roughly-chiselled rocks of the Burioshi in
2677 Ashika | like the cowherd, once roused for the search, he trudges
2678 Nara | countries. The newly-opened route through Thibet, which had
2679 Vista | fair, where little boats row up and down great rivers
2680 Toyoto | that symbolised courage and royalty, in the midst of all the
2681 Heian | its place, and even the rubbish found within the outline
2682 Kamaku | character, is rigorous in its rude simplicity, in contrast
2683 Taoism | artist appeared, who burst rudely into the room, and throwing
2684 Heian | as Kojin, the Fierce God (Rudra?), or Makeisura (Maha-Iswara),
2685 Ashika | silvery image could but ruffle the mirroring surface, and
2686 Ashika | hover over it, sometimes ruffled by winds which make it foam
2687 Meiji | wafted downwards to the rugged snow-peaks of the earth
2688 Asuka | still very impressive in its ruin, as it is not only representative
2689 Nara | By reason of the strict rules which cause it to be opened
2690 Range | of Chinese history might run as follows: - ~The Shu Dynasty (
2691 Asuka | this vassal of your vassal Rurishitike, to bear the accompanying
2692 Confuc | calmly, and his assassins rushed in upon him and killed him,
2693 Nara | study,~on account of the rushing stream of the Yang-tse at
2694 Meiji | light and colour, before Ruskin had interpreted the purity
2695 Meiji | in German philosophy and Russian spirituality, in its latest
2696 Meiji | swords, now groaning in the rust of three centuries of peace.
2697 Heian | and concrete as a luminous sacrament of spirituality, leads on
2698 Taoism | composing in colour.~The sacredness of calligraphy, which attains
2699 Meiji | intercourse. Many, like Iikamon, sacrificed their lives in the~declaration
2700 Primit | represent~more ancient human sacrifices at the grave, often attest
2701 Meiji | daimyos and Samurai joined, sacrificing their time-honoured fiefs
2702 Range | day, where beauty clings sadly to religion in the midst
2703 Meiji | These Japanese art may safely accept from the West, without
2704 Intro | background of the great Norse sagas. At the same time, a new
2705 Heian | in Omi, is attributed to Saicho, Kukai's great rival. We
2706 Vista | divine self-sacrifice of the saint-are becoming liberated, in fact,
2707 Kamaku | Oriental zenanas is a veiled sainthood. It may have been in the
2708 Primit | tree referred to is the Sakaki, or tree of the gods., upon
2709 Heian | Supreme Godhead, of which the Sakya-Buddha was only one manifestation.
2710 Buddhi | a Tartar origin, for the Sakyas may have been Sakas, or
2711 Meiji | and conducted competitive salons in a spirit of conservatism
2712 Heian | Path, to whom the first salutations are offered in all village-worship,
2713 Taoism | candidates arrived, and, saluting him decorously, inquired
2714 Heian | towards Same-Sightedness (Samadarsana). At the same time, curiously
2715 Heian | Indian aspiration towards Same-Sightedness (Samadarsana). At the same
2716 Heian | Varahamihira in his Vrihat Samhita, and sculpture in the Manasara.
2717 Meiji | drama.~The downfall of the sanctity of Buddhist monasteries
2718 Range | Eastern thought has left its sand-ripple as it beat against the national
2719 Nara | as it is cut out of red sand-stone, most of the features have
2720 Vista | equal in number to the sands of the Ganges, I have nowhere
2721 Ashika | find in the statues of the Sangatsude of Nara and the finished~
2722 Nara | The colossal Kwannon of Sangatsudo, on whose head is to be
2723 Nara | period when she produced the Sankhya philosophy and the atomic
2724 Buddhi | all those other rishis and sannyasins who preached in the forests,
2725 Toyoto | unrestrained enjoyment.~Sanraku, the able successor and
2726 Buddhi | transitional form of the original Sanskrit before Pali. But, as if
2727 Range | of Baghdad and her great Saracenic culture is equally significant
2728 Heian | under Buddhistic influences. Saraswati, as Benten, with her vina,
2729 Fujiwa | Genji; Seishonagon, whose sarcastic pen anticipates, by seven
2730 Confuc | governments akin to the Persian satrapies, and its invention, or more
2731 Meiji | vassals. The princes of Satsuma and of Choshu, of Hizen
2732 Fujiwa | that one could alone be saved. They did not put themselves
2733 Ashika | sword-blades within unpretentious scabbards.~paragraph continues] That
2734 Buddhi | Kalidasa sang, and astronomy scaled its heights under Varahamihira,
2735 Fujiwa | witticisms on the court scandals of the Grand Monarque; Akazome,
2736 Fujiwa | the provinces that was to scatter to the four winds that festival
2737 Meiji | the sad destruction and scattering of the treasures of the
2738 Range | valley of the Yang-tse. The scene of Chinese succession and
2739 Buddhi | garbs, led inevitably to schismatic disputes. At first these
2740 Range | the name of Soju or Sung scholasticism, is developed the movement
2741 Fujiwa | to lose their valour. The scion of the Minamotos found them
2742 Intro | vigour and impoverished in scope, even as those of Northern
2743 Vista | mighty reinforcement, for the scorching drought of modern vulgarity
2744 Meiji | furious welcome of any new scrap of Western religion and
2745 Heian | the back was placed the screen, bearing the representation
2746 Fujiwa | seven hundred years, Madame Scudery's witticisms on the court
2747 Asuka | to the Chinese mind, and sculptors like Taiando, in the fourth
2748 Buddhi | may have been Sakas, or Scythians, and the frankly Mongolian
2749 Range | mingle with that of the sea-board races of Burmah and Siam,
2750 Primit | Rising Sun, is so lost in the sea-mists out of which they sprang,
2751 Meiji | prohibition against building seafaring vessels above a certain
2752 Kamaku | A reserve as of religion seals the lips of Kamakura poets,
2753 Vista | and said, "Tell me why, searching amongst all the stars and
2754 Tokuga | mould. The spirit which secluded Japan from all foreign intercourse,
2755 Kamaku | was not adored. For the seclusion of Oriental zenanas is a
2756 Meiji | who devoted themselves in secrecy to deciphering the Dutch
2757 Buddhi | reverence have covered it, and sectarian pride and pious frauds have
2758 Vista | alone amongst the great secular rulers of the world - never
2759 Ashika | paintings, we learn the security and calm which no other
2760 Buddhi | Eastern Asia, but bore its seeds long ago to blossom in the
2761 Ashika | the body of that which he seeks.~paragraph continues] Next
2762 | seeming
2763 Buddhi | will be accepted from a seer as the natural evidence
2764 Asuka | Shogunate, 1867 A.D. This era sees the rise of the~middle classes,
2765 Fujiwa | ideal Mercy, the Kwannon of Seishi, or ideal Power, and the
2766 Fujiwa | grand romance of Genji; Seishonagon, whose sarcastic pen anticipates,
2767 Asuka | accession of the Emperor Seiwa in 898, to the fall of the
2768 Confuc | his arms the infant King Seiwo, he contrasts this with
2769 Ashika | of monkeys attempting to seize the reflection of the moon
2770 Meiji | judgment which made her select from various sources~those
2771 Range | upon herself, and China, self-absorbed in recovery from the shock
2772 Meiji | enlightenment that was not self-aggrandisement.~Another and third impetus
2773 Vista | with a difference. For that self-dedication of art to nature which the
2774 Meiji | the sense of evolutional self-development. Art is neither the ideal
2775 Kamaku | developments whose complete self-display had to await a later era.~ ./.
2776 Fujiwa | oneness of all things becomes self-evident.~Sankaracharya. - The greatest
2777 Asuka | mother. This emanation is self-manifested in every cry of sorrow,
2778 Fujiwa | through personal effort and self-mastery alone - had brought about
2779 Range | as we see abstracted and self-realised in the Mussulmân races.~
2780 Ashika | mind, a mind strong and self-refusing - unmoved, because it is
2781 Range | unbroken sovereignty, the proud self-reliance of an unconquered race,
2782 Meiji | Tartar fleet," full of the self-reliant manhood of the nation. The
2783 Ashika | neither a mannerism,~nor a self-restraint. Spirituality was conceived
2784 Nara | to recognise its supreme self-revelation in the Cosmos itself. The
2785 Primit | still deeper accessions of self-reverence.~NOTES~The simple old rites
2786 Heian | two extremes, of ascetic self-torture and the worship of physical
2787 Fujiwa | in love, which attains to selflessness. In Europe St. Teresa and
2788 Ashika | in so far as they set up semblances for realities. This thought
2789 Ashika | the No-dance is full of semi-articulate sounds. The soughing of
2790 Confuc | matter, and Christians and Semites to be wafted in mid-air
2791 Range | significant of the power of Semitic peoples to demonstrate Chinese,
2792 Asuka | of Kudara, respectfully sends this vassal of your vassal
2793 Heian | with the Riokaimandara of Senjuin, of the same province, are
2794 Kamaku | argument, in which catch sentence is intended to revive the
2795 Ashika | were set forth in broken sentences and powerful metaphor, to
2796 Fujiwa | Destroyer of Earthly Passion and Sentiment. Shinran, a disciple of
2797 Range | exclusive validity than the separate existence of two interchangeable
2798 Heian | Heian consciousness, this separatedness is lost, and the succeeding
2799 Buddhi | And now, in spite~of the separation of ages, Japan is drawn
2800 Heian | sannyasin~ ./. life is a sequestration, and so it comes that when
2801 Ashika | to be the sword - pure, serene, immovable, pointing ever
2802 Ashika | now docile animal, goes serenely on his way, playing a simple
2803 Tokuga | Japanese art is not yet seriously considered in the West.~
2804 Heian | to the same dignity and seriousness as the authentic sciences.
2805 Taoism | order to drink with his servants in the sight of the astonished
2806 Ashika | was brought out in turn to serve in the satisfaction of some
2807 Intro | appreciation of Mr. Okakura's services and convictions by making
2808 Tokuga | ardent student of nature, serving her moods in all their detail,
2809 Intro | Hashimoto Gaho, Kanzan, Taikan, Sessei, Kozn, and others equally
2810 Taoism | empty-handed, are believed to have settled in Japan, where whole families
2811 Confuc | For many ages after their settlement on the plains, however,
2812 Confuc | are nomadic Chinese - in settling, untold ages earlier, in
2813 Asuka | Empress Suiko, wrote the seventeen articles of the Japanese
2814 Meiji | Jesuit encroachment of the seventeenth century, ending in the terrible
2815 Nara | has been enabled, with the severest scientific demonstration,
2816 Kamaku | Shogun is an abbreviation of Seyi tai Shogun, or Commander-in-Chief
2817 Taoism | that land and in Japan.~Shakaku in the fifth century lays
2818 Buddhi | creed.~The Lion of Sakya in shaking his mane disperses the dust
2819 Vista | life of Asia need fear no shaming from that sharp contrast
2820 Primit | proportions.~The dolmens, whose shapes are significant, in their
2821 Nara | the ideas, and begin to share in the general development
2822 Vista | friendship of one who has shared, if only for a moment, the
2823 Taoism | whose knife never needed sharpening, since he cut between the
2824 Kamaku | even went the length of shaving the head. There was nothing
2825 Meiji | maidenhood; the tears that may be shed in his old age by the hero;
2826 Nara | to free it from the hard shell of specialism that one of
2827 Fujiwa | Suiang, in the viceroyalty of Shenshi, where the Empress-Dowager
2828 Confuc | peasant was preceded by the shepherd, is expressed in their mythology
2829 Toyoto | mausoleums of Nikko and Shiba, and in the palace decorations
2830 Meiji | in which the attempts~of Shibakokan and Ayodo are conspicuous,
2831 Confuc | recall the rhymed prose of Shibasojo and Soshimon, where, after
2832 Asuka | already known in the country. Shibatatsu, of the Rio dynasty in Southern
2833 Range | succession and culture is thus shifted at this period to the South,
2834 Tokuga | rival, the founder of the Shijo School, follows closely
2835 Fujiwa | may be mentioned Murasa ki Shikibu, authoress of the grand
2836 Meiji | Christian~population of Shimabara, had brought about the prohibition
2837 Primit | soft-tinted seasons, the shimmer of its silver air, the verdure
2838 Confuc | that the name of China (Shin-land) was first given. It is
2839 Ashika | the Great Existence is to shine. The mind is like a great
2840 Range | types are after all but shining points of distinctness in
2841 Confuc | of Grazing, succeeded by Shinno, the Divine Farmer.~But
2842 Fujiwa | Earthly Passion and Sentiment. Shinran, a disciple of Genku, founded
2843 Asuka | Korean Kings of Kudara and Shiragi vied with each other in
2844 Ashika | way was paved for them by Shitibun, noted for his landscapes
2845 Range | self-absorbed in recovery from the shock of Mongol tyranny, lost
2846 Fujiwa | develop by what they called Shodo, or the Path of Saints,
2847 Nara | It contains their robes, shoes, musical instruments, mirrors,
2848 Tokuga | revive Korin's style, and Shohaku, who, with Blake-like instinct,
2849 Ashika | by the highest genius of Shojo or Soami, whose pillars
2850 Vista | disciples round him, there shone forth before them suddenly -
2851 Taoism | spirit of individualism shook Confucian socialism to its
2852 Intro | religion of Yamato, largely shorn of Buddhistic elements,
2853 Heian | represented the imperfections and shortcomings of his own development.
2854 Nara | imperial treasure-house (Shosoin) is also remarkable, containing
2855 Asuka | Wumayado, commonly known as Shotoku-Taishi, the Saint amongst Princes,
2856 Intro | the Government of Japan showed its appreciation of Mr.
2857 Range | crippled in her power to give, shrank back upon herself, and China,
2858 Asuka | in the suburbs of that shrunken city of Loyang, which is
2859 Confuc | did Hellenic culture - was Shu-ist in form, though tinged by
2860 Confuc | the wall was a portrait of Shuko, bearing in his arms the
2861 Tokuga | versatility, made by Outamaro, Shunman, Kionobu, Harunobu, Kionaga,
2862 Meiji | communication with foreigners. This shut off the Western world, as
2863 Primit | the Thibetans, Nepalese, Siamese, and Burmese, and to bring
2864 Asuka | Wumayado in 621 A.D., was the signal for universal despair, people
2865 Asuka | These last statues are signed by Yamaghuchi, Oguchi, Kusushi,
2866 Nara | made Yasovardhan and the Siladitya of Kanauj honour Brahmins,
2867 Ashika | the artist. The uncovered silken end of a great masterpiece
2868 Ashika | effort to snatch at the silvery image could but ruffle the
2869 Ashika | often illustrated by the simile of monkeys attempting to
2870 Toyoto | magnificence, outshone the simpler dwellings even of the Ashikaga
2871 Kamaku | writings.~Buddhism had to be simplified in order to meet the requirements
2872 Intro | England. What would be the simultaneous developments in China? in
2873 Kamaku | Dante, at any rate, as a singer of love, is entirely an
2874 Confuc | harmony that absorbs the singers and painters of the period.~
2875 Asuka | the same century by Amara Singh, one of the so-called "Nine
2876 Range | than a museum, because the singular genius of the race~leads
2877 Meiji | the artistic consciousness sinks, before it touches with
2878 Buddhi | Buddhist activity - on whose Sino-Japanese development we shall have
2879 Meiji | colour and materials, and the sister-arts of embroidery and tapestry,
2880 Ashika | interludes, an audience will sit spell-bound through a whole
2881 Buddhi | heroic love of Rama and Sita.~Kurukshetra, or Field of
2882 Fujiwa | the preceding age as the Siva-like Fudo, Destroyer of Earthly
2883 Buddhi | water on the head of the Siva-lingam. Unless we can grasp the
2884 Nara | of Ellora, is more than sixty feet high, and towers in
2885 Vista | Japan cannot, in the tangled skein of the Meiji period, find
2886 Asuka | purposes of the present sketch, it is thought well to supply
2887 Tokuga | and prized the playful sketches of a great scholar above
2888 Meiji | its law, now rending the skies in its agonies of destruction,
2889 Buddhi | China, points us to ages of skilled workmanship and vast resources.
2890 Heian | he wears a garland of skulls, armlets of snakes, and
2891 Meiji | grotesque, figures which the slanting rays of sunset cast on the
2892 Nara | called himself publicly "Slave of the Trinity," i.e. the
2893 Heian | of purity is death, who slays the beloved that he may
2894 Toyoto | only just awakened from sleep, evincing now for the first
2895 Meiji | aspects; clouds black with sleeping thunder; the mighty silence
2896 Vista | Emperor of Japan, remove his sleeping-robes on a winter night, because
2897 Nara | of nationality which had slept ever since the days of Asoka.
2898 Heian | believer himself. Now, in their slightly commonplace energising of
2899 Meiji | Iwakura and Okubo were not slow to condemn the wholesale
2900 Confuc | the Divine Farmer.~But the slowly-defining necessities of an agricultural
2901 Meiji | who watches with wistful smiles the donkey that he has just
2902 Vista | some tree, chatting and smoking with the peasant of the
2903 Ashika | water; for each effort to snatch at the silvery image could
2904 Meiji | downwards to the rugged snow-peaks of the earth rising from
2905 Range | Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for
2906 Confuc | Leaving the Indian soul to soar and mingle with its own
2907 Ashika | distant bells, the stifling of sobs, the clash and clang of
2908 Confuc | of study by every modern sociologist. He devotes himself to the
2909 Taoism | were~welcomed on politics, sociology, and law, while the liberty
2910 Primit | the constant play of its soft-tinted seasons, the shimmer of
2911 Fujiwa | path," and their images, softened by the spirit of femininity,
2912 Asuka | sculpture, which aims at softening rigid outlines and bettering
2913 Tokuga | detail, and his delicacy and softness and exquisite gradation
2914 Range | this era, under the name of Soju or Sung scholasticism, is
2915 Taoism | labours of Rikujusei and Sokensi in the early part of the
2916 Meiji | furnished the generals and soldiers who overturned the Shogunate,
2917 Asuka | fierce and turbulent Hun soldiery. He was said to be possessed
2918 Meiji | each struggling to become sole master of the jewel of life,
2919 Meiji | seething turmoil, had not the solid rock of adamantine loyalty
2920 Toyoto | régime of simplicity and solidarity. Alike in art and manners
2921 Fujiwa | makes its realisation its solitary purpose. In this the Japanese,
2922 Taoism | he wrote great poems of solitude - of the man who stands
2923 Meiji | position in history, having solved a problem not comparable
2924 Range | the present day, like the sombre Zennism and No-dances, which
2925 Ashika | common stem of early Asiatic song and melody. This Bugaku
2926 Nara | specialism that one of her sons has been enabled, with the
2927 Buddhi | work of his disciples, who soon learned to clothe his memory
2928 Intro | the Nippon Bijitsuin is a sort of Japanese Merton Abbey.
2929 Confuc | rhymed prose of Shibasojo and Soshimon, where, after depicting
2930 Ashika | Noami, Gaiami, Soami, Sotan, Keishoki, Masanobu, Motonobu,
2931 Ashika | semi-articulate sounds. The soughing of the wind amongst the
2932 Nara | transportation were regulated on a sounder basis, relays of horses
2933 Asuka | which, by its philosophic soundness and affinity to the ideas
2934 Taoism | successor, Soshi, also a Southerner, followed in his footsteps,
2935 Asuka | dynasty. His pupil Doan went southward, and in collaboration with
2936 Meiji | behind them lies always the sovereign-general, immovable and self-contained,
2937 Range | northern and the southern sovereignties were amalgamated. This combination
2938 Nara | in spite of the cramped space which the present building
2939 Tokuga | discipline, crushed out the vital spark from art and life. It was
2940 Ashika | pervaded the universe - sparkling in the light of the stars,
2941 Taoism | Meanwhile, thrushes and sparrows twitter in their amusement, "
2942 Asuka | who are said never to have spat in his direction. He was
2943 Nara | it from the hard shell of specialism that one of her sons has
2944 Primit | Susasmo, the Storm-God, is specially worshipped at Atsuta.~The
2945 Nara | justice was administered by a specially-appointed body of judges. The country
2946 Ashika | expression, for thus was the spectator made one with the artist.
2947 Nara | cause it to be opened to spectators of a certain rank once only
2948 Ashika | fire of modern life and speculation, was only waiting to leap
2949 Meiji | itself, who united to bring a speedy peace to the Empire, and
2950 Confuc | hold great minds by the spell of its broad intellectual
2951 Ashika | interludes, an audience will sit spell-bound through a whole day.~paragraph
2952 Taoism | living for ever, and now spends his time riding through
2953 Nara | incongruity, of one of the spiral lines of the head-dress.
2954 Asuka | modification of the disked spires, originally a canopy or
2955 Taoism | The book of Soshi, rich in splendid imagery, is in great contrast
2956 Primit | sea-mists out of which they sprang, that it is impossible to
2957 Ashika | of a single flower or a spray of bamboo. Each stroke has
2958 Meiji | Samurai.~In spite of political squabbles - natural-unnatural children
2959 Fujiwa | selflessness. In Europe St. Teresa and some of the
2960 Buddhi | pride and pious frauds have stained, each to his own hue, the
2961 Meiji | star-like plum flowers; the stains of heroic blood on the robes
2962 Meiji | with which they took to the stale and old-fashioned goods
2963 Confuc | the battle raged round his standards without. "If it be the will
2964 Buddhi | discussion of philosophic standpoints as to divide Buddhism into
2965 Ashika | pointing ever to the polar star - was the ideal of the Ashikaga
2966 Meiji | darkened waters; the breath of star-like plum flowers; the stains
2967 Buddhi | this law. There, the most startling negations will be accepted
2968 Fujiwa | different from those of the stately~paragraph continues] Buddhas,
2969 Buddhi | to be found of whom the statement made in the text is by no
2970 Intro | of Europe and the United States. Far from being overwhelmed
2971 Toyoto | put it, with his wonderful statesmanship, upon a new régime of simplicity
2972 Taoism | problem of an after~life, and stating that the higher elements
2973 Asuka | navy, cruising along their stations on the Korean coast, leaned
2974 Vista | harmonised thought and feeling of staunch yet gentle manhood. Through
2975 Vista | Asia again into her ancient steadfastness and strength. The very times
2976 Ashika | Tokugawa periods, has held steadily to the Oriental Romantistic
2977 Taoism | founder.~In spite of the steady efforts of Confucian sages,
2978 Confuc | the~trampling of excited steeds; and weird chants of the
2979 Vista | bemeaning of the sword-soul from steel to lead. The task of Asia
2980 Meiji | head of Sakya-Muni, and steep the flesh of Confucius in
2981 Ashika | since the days of Ashikaga, steeped as it were in the spiritual
2982 Asuka | Nirvana, but only of the step before salvation. Not the
2983 Tokuga | of existence was equally stereotyped. Forbidden the high honours
2984 Nara | from India the radiating sticks, and our Japanese guest
2985 Ashika | graceful robes, assuming huge stiff trousers in their place -
2986 Ashika | tolling of distant bells, the stifling of sobs, the clash and clang
2987 Intro | spirituality. Thus, benefit of the stimulating influence of the great southern
2988 Meiji | and the reader was already stirred to long for the revindication
2989 Range | synonym for Ama, the primitive stock of the Japanese. It is also
2990 Meiji | or the instant when love stops,~half-unconscious, on her
2991 Heian | the people lay up immense stores of latent energy, and we
2992 Buddhi | and essential allusions to storeyed towers, galleries of pictures,
2993 Taoism | mid-day sky on the backs of storks to join the secret meetings
2994 Toyoto | into power after the second storming of the Osaka Castle in 1615,
2995 Meiji | seeking ever to make its own stormy will its law, now rending
2996 Primit | place on the one hand of the straight lines of Yamato architecture,
2997 Buddhi | is a limitation, and go straightway, as the natural sequence,
2998 Intro | the sea-route through the straits - that movement which probably
2999 Buddhi | island, thus creating a new stratum of Indo-Chinese art, very
3000 Meiji | youth seek passage in those stray European vessels which chanced
3001 Kamaku | this than the wonderful street scenes, depicted in the
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