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3002 Confuc | memorial in the Great Wall that stretches from Dokwan to the Yellow
3003 Asuka | proportions, though it adheres strictly to the Hâng type of the
3004 Nara | handful of clay and his strip of grass to the mighty figure,"
3005 Buddhi | which it remains the present stronghold.~Northern India and Kashmir,
3006 Meiji | period, enriched by the strongly accentuated outlines of
3007 Taoism | lost greatly in power of structural composition and line expression,
3008 Taoism | take upon~itself organic structure. This great imaginative
3009 Confuc | Stupendous towers, and great structures in wood and brick, were
3010 Meiji | Italian Republics, when each struggled to find a new solution of
3011 Asuka | dispute. These disastrous struggles for power, which ended with
3012 Tokuga | to pursue the course of studies laid down by Tannyu and
3013 Meiji | all boys and girls alike, studying in the village~schools under
3014 Tokuga | excellence of their respective styles. Yet, up to the rise of
3015 Ashika | Ashikaga masters, though subjected to slight degeneration in
3016 Ashika | approached the problem from a subjective and idealistic standpoint.~
3017 Toyoto | influence and completed the subjugation of the rival chiefs, leaving
3018 Asuka | whole world. This palace was subsequently turned into a monastery,
3019 Taoism | falls into a third place, subservient to two other main principles.
3020 Ashika | mistook the attribute for the substance. Even religious teachings
3021 Meiji | in the recovery of those subtler~and nobler visions of human
3022 Nara | mishap, the work failed to succeed, she is said to have personally
3023 Fujiwa | Chaitanya, an age of Bhakti succeeds an age of Jnan.~A wave of
3024 Confuc | were erected by these true successors of the Shin. For it was~
3025 Meiji | in China, and the gradual succumbing of Eastern nations, one
3026 Vista | shone forth before them suddenly - blasting the sight of
3027 Buddhi | nature of freedom from that suffering which is known as life.~
3028 Meiji | of the ideal, is deemed a sufficient answer.~Fragments of nature
3029 Vista | elements and traditions, suffused with the tenderness and
3030 Confuc | of the empire, and end by suggesting that the true beauty of
3031 Ashika | excellence is an infinite suggestiveness, naturalism the one thing
3032 Fujiwa | Choan is the present city of Suiang, in the viceroyalty of Shenshi,
3033 Meiji | or above all of self, is suicidal to the realisation of individuality,
3034 Confuc | congenial elements had existed, suited to become the germ of the
3035 Heian | Sun-God; Getten, the Moon-God; Suiten, the God of Waters on a
3036 Asuka | their founder, Takanouchi Sukune, who was the adviser and
3037 Ashika | that realisation of the sum of things as the act~of
3038 Range | colonies in Ceylon, Java, and Sumatra, leaving Aryan blood to
3039 Tokuga | with its younger branch, Sumiyoshi, was re-established with
3040 Meiji | verdure of a rain-swept summer. Yet~ ./. the vicissitudes
3041 Heian | by two heads; Nitten, the Sun-God; Getten, the Moon-God; Suiten,
3042 Asuka | hangings and canopies and sundry Buddhist scriptures - addressing
3043 Confuc | decorative, it could never have sunk to the bourgeois level,
3044 Meiji | which the slanting rays of sunset cast on the ground behind
3045 Heian | beginning with the trance of super-consciousness, produced by meditation,
3046 Buddhi | is the realisation of the super-personal existence. For depth and
3047 Buddhi | true in itself, and yet superficially contradictory of another
3048 Ashika | the Kamakura period, now supersedes colour in importance.~A
3049 Confuc | of the state, to be again supplanted, when the old conditions
3050 Buddhi | 2000 to 700 B.C. They are supplementary to the Vedas, and form the
3051 Primit | raised by the power of its supplication. This is the only occasion
3052 Asuka | sketch, it is thought well to supply the following brief summary
3053 Buddhi | foreign school, it must surely be with that old Asiatic
3054 Primit | the mighty billows that surged upon it from the two great
3055 Heian | the great staff of death, surmounted by two heads; Nitten, the
3056 Intro | is not, therefore, very surprising that India, divorced from
3057 Primit | embassy, calling upon Japan to surrender. A peremptory refusal was
3058 Meiji | new and greater programme, surround us with a labyrinth of contradictions,
3059 Buddhi | own hue, the waters of the surrounding~ ./. ocean, till it is almost
3060 Asuka | imperial name. This is the survival of that "Assembly of the
3061 Nara | continental fusion of the moment survives to this day in Japan, in
3062 Asuka | felt to have passed, his surviving princesses, with their damsels,
3063 Primit | tail of a dragon killed by Susasmo, the Storm-God, is specially
3064 Nara | its height, perhaps under Susruta, and which finally gave
3065 Asuka | the "Guardians of Law," sustaining the four corners of the
3066 Meiji | perspective, the commissariat that sustains the army. These Japanese
3067 Intro | of a wandering monk - the Swâmi Vivekânanda - who found
3068 Taoism | impenetrable forests and misty swamps of that great valley dwelt
3069 Heian | the white bird Ha Kuga, or Swan; Khaten (Agni); Ishanna;
3070 Taoism | the delicate grace of the swaying bamboo, the unconscious
3071 Taoism | saying, "I know that fish can swim, I know that birds can fly,
3072 Fujiwa | Samadhi through renunciation, swings back upon the thought of
3073 Ashika | themselves on keeping wonderful sword-blades within unpretentious scabbards.~
3074 Tokuga | inros, the netsukes, the sword-guards, and the delightful lacquer-work
3075 Confuc | mirrors, horse-trappings, sword-ornaments, and beautiful armour in
3076 Confuc | Confucian ideal, with its symmetry born of dualism, and its
3077 Meiji | and knowledge of the most sympathetic movements in Western art-creations,
3078 Intro | the name given to the vast synthesis known as Hinduism, when
3079 Buddhi | Ceylon to the limits of Syria and Egypt, deliberately
3080 Buddhi | long ago to blossom in the Syrian desert, and in the form
3081 Taoism | Laoist mind that the first systematic criticism of painting and
3082 Heian | very early days, but its systematisation seems only to be completed
3083 Heian | Divinity. We find now a systematised pantheon, grouped around
3084 Ashika | universe according to all these systems at once. We come now upon
3085 Range | mutual intercourse.~The long systolic centuries - in which India,
3086 Kamaku | recalls the tales of the round table, and is lost, like that
3087 Nara | their cult, as the Choan tablets attest, and when Zoroastrians
3088 Taoism | elaboration of the science of tactics. For the feudal age at the
3089 Kamaku | an abbreviation of Seyi tai Shogun, or Commander-in-Chief
3090 Heian | confers fortune and love; Taigensui, the Commander-in-chief (
3091 Kamaku | family, who destroyed the Tairas. The long succession of
3092 Vista | to be its fruits, making Takakura, Emperor of Japan, remove
3093 Asuka | the days of their founder, Takanouchi Sukune, who was the adviser
3094 | taking
3095 Nara | stone Buddhas of the Tin Tal in Ellora, though deprived
3096 Kamaku | whose life recalls the tales of the round table, and
3097 Confuc | they wandered amongst the tall grasses of the plateaux;
3098 Range | under Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, spread over the Celestial~
3099 Meiji | scholars, became the vogue. Tameyasu and To-tsugen were the pioneers
3100 Intro | commenced under Asoka and became tangible in China itself at the time
3101 Vista | Even Japan cannot, in the tangled skein of the Meiji period,
3102 Range | Taiso. The capital of the Tângs was on the Hoang-Ho, where
3103 Range | Bengali Tantrikism. - The Tantras are works written for the
3104 Taoism | many melodies. Even so, the Tao, the great Mood, expresses
3105 Nara | to speak of the wonderful tapestries and hangings, of which fragments
3106 Vista | completeness of her undoing in the tarnishing of the purity of the spiritual
3107 Range | water of the Ganges, for the Tartaric nations that joined it made
3108 Taoism | coach before a roadside tavern in order to drink with his
3109 Asuka | that great temple, and this taxed the ingenuity of the sculptor
3110 Ashika | with costly gold-work. The tea-room would be decorated with
3111 Meiji | teachers were appointed to teach - grovelled in darkness
3112 Meiji | robes of maidenhood; the tears that may be shed in his
3113 Asuka | through its evolution of the tee, had, so early as the time
3114 Meiji | individualism of Meiji, teeming with life in other cycles
3115 Meiji | would-be assertiveness, teems with an unparalleled interest
3116 Ashika | almost better be termed tellers - and assist in the general
3117 Buddhi | some inspired wayfarer who tells them that there can be no
3118 Nara | decorative art - in the same temper which in India made Yasovardhan
3119 Primit | romantic purity, which so tempers the soul of Japanese art,
3120 Meiji | field his wild imagery and tempestuous conceptions, as shown in
3121 Primit | all these was born that tender simplicity, that romantic
3122 Heian | conflict with any earlier tenets.~One of the best specimens
3123 Fujiwa | Michizane who is so revered as Tenjin, patron of letters and learning -
3124 Kamaku | makimonos of Jigokusoshi and Tenjinengi of Kitano - where the warlike
3125 Nara | contemporary, the Emperor Tenjitenno, broke the hereditary power
3126 Asuka | of Infinite Bliss, called Tenju-koku, - into which paradise the
3127 Primit | Asia. It does not suggest a tent.~The Kasuga Style in Nara. -
3128 Fujiwa | characterised, from the tenth century onwards, by a predominating
3129 Fujiwa | selflessness. In Europe St. Teresa and some of the modern Protestant
3130 Confuc | mid-air through a Paradise of terrestrial dreams - leaving all these,
3131 Asuka | Roko, who had occupied the territory, though we should consider
3132 Kamaku | succession of depictments of the terrors of hell in the makimonos
3133 Confuc | extraordinary development of textiles and~ceramics - had the Taoist
3134 Heian | Khaten (Agni); Ishanna; Thaishak (Indra); Futen; Vishamon,
3135 Ashika | refinement. They loved to live in thatched cottages, as simple in appearance
3136 Tokuga | mundane pleasures, in the theatre, or in the gay life of Yoshiwara.
3137 Tokuga | and in the illustration of theatrical celebrities.~The Popular
3138 Taoism | that style which was theirs before a stage chiaroscuro
3139 Intro | interpretation of the grandest theme within the reach of the
3140 | thereby
3141 Primit | Turanian tribes forming the Thibetans, Nepalese, Siamese, and
3142 Taoism | for sacrifice, saying, "Thinkest thou that the beast will
3143 Ashika | yet is not. Thus, to Zen thinking, victories over the inner
3144 Meiji | touch our coasts.~But the thirst for knowledge was not to
3145 Nara | trinity of the same temple thirty years later, undoubtedly
3146 Meiji | vicissitudes of this new age, whose thirty-four years have passed, bringing
3147 Intro | resigned. Six months later thirty-nine of the strongest young artists
3148 Asuka | period, had migrated to Japan thirty-one years before this event,
3149 Asuka | sight of pity. Kwannon has thirty-three forms, representing all
3150 Taoism | Universe, moving hither and thither amidst those harmonic laws
3151 | thou
3152 Range | Universal, which is the common thought-inheritance of every Asiatic race, enabling
3153 Buddhi | of the sannyasin is the thraldom of the emancipated, and
3154 Fujiwa | of Divine Mercy, out of threads extracted from the lotus-stem.
3155 Meiji | encroachments on Asiatic soil threatened our national independence.
3156 Fujiwa | understand the danger that was threatening them so close.~A civil war
3157 Meiji | forced to turn Shinto by threats of instant annihilation.
3158 Range | linger with dismay on the threshold of an attempt to make an
3159 Tokuga | any vitality which they threw into this was reflected
3160 Meiji | the great new energy that thrilled the nation, making the humblest
3161 Vista | vulgarity is parching the throat of life and art.~We await
3162 Asuka | burn its accessories and throw the statue into the neighbouring
3163 Nara | whole energy of Buddhism is thrown upon this scientific research
3164 Taoism | till it alights. Meanwhile, thrushes and sparrows twitter in
3165 Meiji | clouds black with sleeping thunder; the mighty silence of pine
3166 Asuka | Vajrapani, holder of the thunderbolt.~
3167 Taoism | with the Infinite - the tiger roaring his incessant~challenge
3168 Taoism | of Change, and in their tiger-and-dragon pictures they portray the
3169 Heian | armlets of snakes, and the tiger-skin of meditation.~His feminine
3170 Toyoto | plumage, and the lions and tigers that symbolised courage
3171 Buddhi | bring its own stones and tiles to widen the great roof
3172 Primit | to die. It modified the tilted roofs of Chinese architecture
3173 Vista | of the fierce joys of a time-devouring locomotion, but she has
3174 Nara | the stone Buddhas of the Tin Tal in Ellora, though deprived
3175 Range | the Indian peninsula, to tinge its Mussulmân Imperialism
3176 Meiji | the vogue. Tameyasu and To-tsugen were the pioneers of this
3177 Tokuga | by which the inro or the tobacco-pouch was hung.~
3178 Nara | seen on the Yangtse below Tobaro, near Kakoken. It is cut
3179 Taoism | Chinese race in its hands today, and claims "the old Philosopher"
3180 Heian | eleven-headed Kwannon of Toganji in Omi, is attributed to
3181 Asuka | who was rewarded for his toils with a high court rank and
3182 Nara | mentioned~the Kwannon of Toindo and the Sakya of Kanimanji.~
3183 Heian | are now handed down in the Toji temple of Kyoto, amongst
3184 Kamaku | and the Tokugawas in Yedo (Tokio).~Sakti. - A Sanscrit word
3185 Kamaku | Yoshitsune. We have also Tokiyorie, the regent of the Shoguns,
3186 Asuka | to Iname, in a spirit of tolerance, and it was placed in his
3187 Meiji | ardour of Kamakura, which tolerates the gorgeous pageantry of
3188 Ashika | dropping of water, or the tolling of distant bells, the stifling
3189 Confuc | the Burioshi in Shantung, tombs of a family of provincial~
3190 Asuka | landways, which both began at Tonko in China, at the mouth of
3191 Meiji | vessels above a certain tonnage, and caused the penalty
3192 Nara | enthusiasm, "The sound of the tools that are raising the image
3193 Asuka | of the great vase at the top, in striking reminder of
3194 Primit | so reminiscent of Indian torans, are preserved in pristine
3195 Confuc | Asuka Period. The genius of Toribushi, our great sculptor, was
3196 Asuka | Yamaghuchi, Oguchi, Kusushi, and Toriko, of whom the first is mentioned
3197 Primit | immaculate ancestrism, with their toris and rails so reminiscent
3198 Ashika | the mediæval hermit, who tormented his flesh instead of disciplining
3199 Meiji | contributed~to arouse us from this torpor of centuries may be mentioned,
3200 Buddhi | India pours her intellectual torrents upon the world, and the
3201 Heian | the God of Waters on a tortoise; and Shoden (Ganesh).~At
3202 Range | mouldy walls of Ajanta, the tortured sculptures of Ellora, the
3203 Meiji | once to the methods of the Tosas in the heroic Kamakura period.
3204 Nara | thought flow side by side, and Toshimi, Ritaihaku, and Omakitsu,
3205 Asuka | at least on the point of total destruction. The repairs,
3206 Range | where it was later to be touched by the Great Wall.~The Shin
3207 Toyoto | 1586 A.D., and to whose towering ambition Japan was so much
3208 Nara | capital, now known as the town of Nara. This city became
3209 Tokuga | Kionobu, Harunobu, Kionaga, Toyokuni, and Hokusai, stand apart
3210 Meiji | geniuses who follow in their track, are not only noted for
3211 Meiji | original part, be it of tragedy or comedy, in the grand
3212 Taoism | exemplified in Kutsugen, of tragic memory, abounds in the intense
3213 Meiji | Adwaita idea to which she was trained by her ancestors. To the
3214 Ashika | constituted another essential trait of the Zen ideal. It is
3215 Buddhi | imposing their Mongolian traits on Indian art, could but
3216 Confuc | clang of weapons and the~trampling of excited steeds; and weird
3217 Heian | stages, beginning with the trance of super-consciousness,
3218 Confuc | through uncounted ages of tranquillity, were yet to bring forth
3219 Kamaku | people who lived in the trans-Hakone region of the so-called
3220 Meiji | the pre-Tokugawa schools, transcending the popular democratic notion
3221 Asuka | Asuka itself, and since the transfer of the capital to Nara,
3222 Range | centre of rule was now again transferred to the Yang-tse. In this
3223 Meiji | religion of loyalty, with the transfigured halo of the Mikado in the
3224 Heian | interpretation that points to the transformation of an ancient sacrifice
3225 Ashika | church - Alexander stood transformed as Ignatius Loyola. The
3226 Kamaku | is interesting, like all transition periods, by the fact that
3227 Buddhi | the Gatha, or some kindred transitional form of the original Sanskrit
3228 Asuka | of the third century the translation of the Amida-Sutra was accomplished.~
3229 Nara | were built; the means of transportation were regulated on a sounder
3230 Vista | has still the far deeper travel-culture of the pilgrimage and the
3231 Vista | some court in which the travelling merchant may display his
3232 Intro | deepened and intensified by his travels, and since that time he
3233 Meiji | art is always in danger of treading merely on his own shadow,
3234 Nara | in each reign, this whole treasure is preserved as if almost
3235 Range | remarkable an age, intact.~The treasure-stores of the daimyos, again, abound
3236 Range | consecutively studied through its treasured specimens. The Imperial
3237 Confuc | imperial family, to the treasuries of Shinto temples, and to
3238 Meiji | an official appointed to treat with the Hollanders, might
3239 Nara | an elaborate psychology treating of the evolution of the
3240 Taoism | up from the grass to the tree-tops in a~moment? What is the
3241 Buddhi | we hear the divine voice tremble still with that passion
3242 Nara | completed.~This was an age of tremendous Buddhist activity. Amongst
3243 Heian | striving to make itself a triangle - for life, it is said,
3244 Buddhi | streams and currents once its tributaries.~Yet it is this very power
3245 Asuka | course, glad to receive the tribute, but was obliged to hesitate
3246 Heian | gleaming third eye, the trident sword, and the lasso of
3247 Intro | worship of Death; not a trifling realism, however beautiful,
3248 Ashika | intensifying of the attitude of triumph. The three terms by which
3249 Meiji | ideal vistas, yet to be trodden by the explorers of the
3250 Toyoto | humiliating recall of Japanese troops from the peninsula on his
3251 Taoism | generals, brought back as a trophy from an inroad on the borders
3252 Kamaku | in the Crusades that the troubadours learnt this secret of the
3253 Fujiwa | no questions of state to trouble their sweet reveries, the
3254 Ashika | robes, assuming huge stiff trousers in their place - for the
3255 Taoism | give the whole fall of Troy in the eyes of the prophetess,
3256 Intro | such a theory, a fitting truce is called to all degrading
3257 Ashika | roused for the search, he trudges on in the almost imperceptible
3258 Tokuga | they also fail to catch the truly national element in art,
3259 Range | the real repository of the trust of Asiatic thought and culture.
3260 Fujiwa | human nature~was weak and, try as it might, could not accomplish
3261 Tokuga | originality. Here was Busson trying to formulate a new style
3262 Confuc | dualistic~mythology of the Turanians, as they wandered amongst
3263 Asuka | influence amongst the fierce and turbulent Hun soldiery. He was said
3264 Primit | they were a division of the Turkish hordes who found their way
3265 Meiji | the rise of the Ottoman Turks, and on the other the new
3266 Ashika | Sankaracharya downwards, turns on the moving power of the
3267 Nara | down to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries themselves, with
3268 Buddhi | of the Vistula, and the twenty-three Indian, twelve Chinese,
3269 Nara | to-day, since it has suffered twice from fire, once in the Taira
3270 Taoism | Meanwhile, thrushes and sparrows twitter in their amusement, "Rise
3271 Taoism | for benevolence is man and two-in two, one forgets oneself.~
3272 Fujiwa | never died, and to this day two-thirds of the people belong to
3273 Meiji | of mediævalism. And this twofold assimilation it was that
3274 Asuka | reign of the first Shin tyrant. But if so, they left little
3275 Fujiwa | all its glory at Hoodo, in Uji, one of the innumerable
3276 Nara | embrace was to ring from Ujjain to Choan and Nara through
3277 Meiji | democratic notion of the Ukioye, and returning at once to
3278 Fujiwa | reins of government, and ultimately constituted them the daimyos
3279 Asuka | originally a canopy or umbrella, the emblem of sovereignty,
3280 Taoism | emperors, too, were not unaddicted to similar pursuits, and
3281 Primit | forms - beautiful in their unadorned proportions.~The dolmens,
3282 Asuka | like an abstract ideal, unapproachable and mysterious, and even
3283 Primit | concealed.~Apart from this, her unassailable original destiny, the geographical
3284 Range | Western world remains so unaware of the varied environment
3285 Fujiwa | in Confucianism, from the unbalanced development of any single
3286 Fujiwa | years won the hearts of the uncivilised peoples east of the Hakone
3287 Vista | the nation is clear and unconfused, like that of a single personality.
3288 Range | proud self-reliance of an unconquered race, and the insular isolation
3289 Tokuga | heights are when he reverts unconsciously to those methods which governed
3290 Confuc | developing itself through uncounted ages of tranquillity, were
3291 Taoism | the Shu nobles, and their uncouth appearance and rough language,
3292 Ashika | one with the artist. The uncovered silken end of a great masterpiece
3293 Taoism | never be eradicated, and the uncultivated foresters of the Yang-tse-Kiang
3294 Toyoto | and naturally, to their uncultured mind, the solemn and severe
3295 Ashika | their costliest stuffs for under-garments, as the Samurai prided themselves
3296 Taoism | philosophic energy found an underground channel, from which it emerged,
3297 Ashika | of life and progress~ ./. underlies not only the history of
3298 Ashika | the universe beats always underneath incidental appearances.
3299 Buddhi | the early stupas, and now undistinguishable by us among the existing
3300 Nara | and which~have come down undisturbed to the present day. It contains
3301 Vista | the completeness of her undoing in the tarnishing of the
3302 Confuc | Shinto temples, and to the unearthed contents of the dolmens.
3303 Ashika | compact composition are almost unequalled.~Sesshu owes his position
3304 Meiji | were it plunged rashly or unequipped into warlike defiance of
3305 Meiji | up to us an area hitherto unexplored.~Sculpture and other arts
3306 Range | lies in its unconscious unfolding of itself, and the silent
3307 Range | which have one after another unfurled the banner of nationality;
3308 Ashika | actor to that unhearing and unheard intelligence that broods
3309 Ashika | behind the actor to that unhearing and unheard intelligence
3310 Toyoto | the Osaka Castle in 1615, unified the administrative system
3311 Meiji | difficult to abstract and unify the underlying idea.~And
3312 Toyoto | was distasteful, because unintelligible. They, instigated by Hideyoshi,
3313 Intro | amount of "cleaning" and unintentional disfigurement, as was the
3314 Confuc | According to Chinese ethics, the unit of society is the family,
3315 Intro | proceeds to overflow and unite the whole. We follow it
3316 Range | of Japan to realise this unity-in-complexity with a special clearness.
3317 Buddhi | that race, and in thereby universalising Indian idealism in its highest
3318 Intro | pilgrims who visited her universities and cave-temples, and by
3319 | unlikely
3320 Fujiwa | twelfth century completely unmasked the powerlessness of the
3321 Vista | of her vast powers in the unmeasured devotion of her Fujiwara
3322 Kamaku | Kamakura period points as unmistakably to the conception of the
3323 Ashika | strong and self-refusing - unmoved, because it is so simple.~
3324 Heian | similarly, is Achala, the Unmoving.~The Twelve Devas. - The
3325 Ashika | performed is made of hard, unpainted wood, with a single pine
3326 Ashika | wonderful sword-blades within unpretentious scabbards.~paragraph continues]
3327 Meiji | lexicon, even as archæologists unravelled the mysteries of ancient
3328 Buddhi | discussions upon the real and the unreal, which led for the most
3329 Nara | that there is no truth unrelated to the unity of things;
3330 Confuc | upon him and killed him, unresisting, as he sat. His name is
3331 Toyoto | join with the populace in unrestrained enjoyment.~Sanraku, the
3332 Meiji | found an opportunity for unrestricted growth. That eagerness and
3333 Asuka | Kwannon, which has been unrevealed to public gaze for centuries,
3334 Confuc | wandering spirits of the unseen world, their idealism of
3335 Kamaku | their simple bravery and unsophisticated ideas, broke down the effeminate
3336 Ashika | to mind, a mode by which unspoken thought is borne from behind
3337 Confuc | nomadic Chinese - in settling, untold ages earlier, in the rich
3338 Heian | the understanding of the untrained masses. Under this school
3339 Toyoto | was brought about by the upheaval of the new aristocracy,
3340 Range | thought and culture. Dynastic upheavals, the inroads of Tartar horsemen,
3341 Confuc | to the tradition which it upheld.~This man, it is interesting
3342 Asuka | place on the throne the upholder of its own creed, ending
3343 Meiji | liberty, was helping to uplift from it the cloud of mediævalism.
3344 Meiji | atrocities, before Delacroix had uplifted the veil of hardened academic
3345 Buddhi | education of Indian boys of the upper classes. It contains the
3346 Range | This was due to a popular uprising against the Mongol tyranny.
3347 Fujiwa | order to welcome and bear upward the departing soul. Ladies
3348 Heian | perfection, in its struggle upwards to the higher rounds of
3349 Primit | that was to overpass the Ural ranges into Moscow. And
3350 Fujiwa | the time it appeared that useful duties were both lowering
3351 Toyoto | discovered the wonderful usefulness of gold-leaf, employed so
3352 Nara | seventh, when Brahmagupta uses his highly-developed algebra
3353 Nara | sitting on a lotus daïs in the usual style, and as it is cut
3354 Asuka | responsibility of government usually remained with the powerful
3355 Range | finally in the domestic utensils of the present day, where
3356 Ashika | innumerable repetitions to utter forth infinity in his creations.
3357 Buddhi | subject of his most forcible~utterance. And yet only in its relation
3358 Ashika | pitch, are there. Such dim utterances, echoed from the eternal
3359 Vista | many of the Evangels have uttered this truth! "Know thyself,"
3360 Intro | art, which has left its uttermost ripple-marks alike on the
3361 Nara | spirit of grandeur that utters itself in the odes of Hitomaru
3362 Taoism | period, in the freedom and vagaries of the Conversationalists.~
3363 Intro | Our author has talked in vain if he has not conclusively
3364 Fujiwa | which corresponds to the Vaishnavism of India.~Both Genshin,
3365 Meiji | old art of Asia is more valid than that of any modern
3366 Range | ultimate or mutually exclusive validity than the separate existence
3367 Fujiwa | completely to lose their valour. The scion of the Minamotos
3368 Intro | aspects that his work is most valuable. For be holds that the great
3369 Nara | their having given phonetic values to the Chinese ideographs,
3370 Ashika | and crimson flowers. These vanish again, and he delights to
3371 Nara | less illustrious successor, Varamihira; which brought Hindu medicine
3372 Fujiwa | in the nation's range of variation, the halo of the eternal
3373 Range | remains so unaware of the varied environment and interrelated
3374 Primit | waving rice-fields, the variegated contour of the archipelago,
3375 Primit | bronze, in iron, and in various-coloured stones. The terra-cotta
3376 Buddhi | dialects of the people.~Such varying interpretations of a single
3377 Confuc | It may be said of the Shu vases and other bronzes that,
3378 Buddhi | at least as authentic and vastly more faithful to the complexity
3379 Nara | towards a visualisation of the vastness of the universe, resting
3380 Buddhi | known as Asvaghosha and Vasumitra, the latter of whom had
3381 Fujiwa | second great school of the Vedanta philosophy.~Chaitanya. -
3382 Buddhi | nation's life. The great Vedantic revival of Sankaracharya
3383 Buddhi | all previous developers of Vedic thought, and enabled his
3384 Primit | brilliance, and feeds the vegetation by which it is concealed.~
3385 Meiji | Delacroix had uplifted the veil of hardened academic chiaro-oscuro,
3386 Buddhi | was Tartar blood in his veins, that he embodied the root-idea
3387 Asuka | later pictures painted as a venerable bearded man, holding the
3388 Meiji | note of that all-embracing veneration that was needed.~On the
3389 Toyoto | whenever the people would vent their energies in juvenile
3390 Tokuga | disdained the Kano yoke could venture to indulge in wilful deviations
3391 Taoism | public; when a simple student ventured to delay a high dignitary
3392 Fujiwa | style of the scholars, the vernacular language had been considered
3393 Toyoto | style. Momoyama was the Versailles which all the barons or
3394 Asuka | very different from that version which, by its philosophic
3395 Ashika | mind. The body is a crystal vessel, through which the rainbow
3396 Asuka | Soga period, was unable to veto the claims on either side.
3397 Meiji | of temples, accustomed to vibrate the music of repose and
3398 Vista | than these. It lies in that vibration of peace that beats in every
3399 Kamaku | the Shogunate, or military vice-royalty by Yoritomo of the Minamoto
3400 Fujiwa | present city of Suiang, in the viceroyalty of Shenshi, where the Empress-Dowager
3401 Buddhi | Buddhist learning, in the vicinity of Rajagriha.~
3402 Meiji | rain-swept summer. Yet~ ./. the vicissitudes of this new age, whose thirty-four
3403 Asuka | whole East as but so many victims of an "arrested development."~
3404 Ashika | Thus, to Zen thinking, victories over the inner self are
3405 Asuka | and it was placed in his villa at Mukobara for a time.
3406 Heian | salutations are offered in all village-worship, and whose dread power is
3407 Fujiwa | deserted the cities and villages in crowds to follow Kuya
3408 Nara | Chinese monk who founded the Vinaya sect in this period, was
3409 Meiji | even during their most violent dissensions.~The Code of
3410 Ashika | in all the exuberance of virile nature.~Hosts of others
3411 Heian | Thaishak (Indra); Futen; Vishamon, whose consort is Kichjoten (
3412 Confuc | family dialogues, speaks of visiting the mausoleum of the kings
3413 Vista | THE VISTA~THE simple life of Asia
3414 Buddhi | than Europe west of the Vistula, and the twenty-three Indian,
3415 Nara | reaching forth towards a visualisation of the vastness of the universe,
3416 Intro | wandering monk - the Swâmi Vivekânanda - who found his way to America
3417 Fujiwa | sorrows of that refined and voluptuous epoch. Men imitated the
3418 Heian | regulated by Varahamihira in his Vrihat Samhita, and sculpture in
3419 Nara | in the Cosmos itself. The vulgarisation of this impulse was to betray
3420 Vista | scorching drought of modern vulgarity is parching the throat of
3421 Meiji | time of Æschylus to that of Wagner and the Northern European
3422 Primit | Then, while the Japanese waited, guarding their coasts,
3423 Ashika | and speculation, was only waiting to leap through the classic
3424 Asuka | huge golden god, and on waking asked his courtiers for
3425 Nara | fine workmanship of the wall-painting of the Ajanta caves. A landscape
3426 Confuc | of the Turanians, as they wandered amongst the tall grasses
3427 Vista | place of interest on his wanderings without leaving his hokku
3428 Confuc | literature, long before Wani the Hakushi, the Korean
3429 Meiji | and pathos of war; or the waning light of some great splendour -
3430 Kamaku | projected upon the Samurai's war-lord, whoever he might be, and
3431 Kamaku | corresponding word in Chinese is warp, that which is to be woven
3432 Nara | the next during the civil wars in the sixteenth century.
3433 Toyoto | the strict régime of the wary statesman, Iyeyasu.~Thus
3434 Toyoto | bring out with a simple wash the broadest effect. Sotatsu
3435 Buddhi | may be that the desolate wastes of Kurukshetra, and the
3436 Tokuga | popular poetry; here was Watanabe-Shiko, who tried to~revive Korin'
3437 Meiji | idea, of the magician who watches with wistful smiles the
3438 Buddhi | the feet of some inspired wayfarer who tells them that there
3439 Toyoto | those which adorned the wayside for miles during the processions
3440 Fujiwa | pleaded that human nature~was weak and, try as it might, could
3441 Ashika | parties in the empire, thus weakening China against her next Tartar
3442 Confuc | ploughshare of the peasant, weakens the resistive powers of
3443 Meiji | Technique is thus but the weapon of the artistic warfare;
3444 Confuc | border-warfare, echoing the clang of weapons and the~trampling of excited
3445 Ashika | the present day the people wear their costliest stuffs for
3446 Toyoto | orders simultaneously on weary artists, sometimes demanding
3447 Vista | Japan, and enabled her to weather the storm under which so
3448 Ashika | clang of war, echoes of the weavers beating the new web against
3449 Toyoto | central Japan, was able to wedge himself into the focus of
3450 Buddhi | Kurukshetra, and the wailing weeds of Rajagriha, still cherish
3451 Buddhi | unifying force - gave the weight of his personal influence
3452 Taoism | to honour them by putting weighty questions for solution.
3453 Confuc | trampling of excited steeds; and weird chants of the supernatural,
3454 Range | of living Advaitism which welcomes the new without losing the
3455 Confuc | furnished the test by which the welfare or misgovernment of a province
3456 Range | centre. They were placed westward of the Dokwan Pass, where
3457 | whatever
3458 Meiji | the ridiculous.~The wild whirlpool of individualism, seeking
3459 Taoism | green serenity of the pine, whispering its silent woes to the wind,
3460 | whither
3461 | whoever
3462 Meiji | not slow to condemn the wholesale ravages which this frenzied
3463 | why
3464 Buddhi | own stones and tiles to widen the great roof that, like
3465 Asuka | have been an Indian monk, wielded a great influence amongst
3466 Buddhi | itself, crying alone in the wilderness, amongst those who know
3467 Taoism | of their pictures of the wildfowl calling to each other amongst
3468 Tokuga | could venture to indulge in wilful deviations from tradition,
3469 Intro | Okakura is in some~sense the William Morris of his country, we
3470 Ashika | is sweet, with its green willows and crimson flowers. These
3471 Taoism | the bird of magic, whose wings are ninety thousand miles
3472 Vista | his sleeping-robes on a winter night, because the frost
3473 Fujiwa | Chinese thought and Indian wisdom had long found its way to
3474 Confuc | asserting the choice of the wise men of the time, according
3475 Meiji | which the Samurai naturally wished to acquire, led them into
3476 Meiji | magician who watches with wistful smiles the donkey that he
3477 Taoism | delighting in demoniac stories of witchcraft and magic. Indeed, a necessary
3478 Fujiwa | over the Chinese, who are withheld by that strong common sense
3479 Intro | and the world may again witness the Indianising of the East.~
3480 Heian | about the hall as guardian witnesses, and at the back was placed
3481 Asuka | Avalokiteswara - the Lord who witnesseth. The name denotes one of
3482 Fujiwa | years, Madame Scudery's witticisms on the court scandals of
3483 Taoism | pine, whispering its silent woes to the wind, and the divine
3484 Kamaku | the time of chivalry, its woman-worship restricted by Oriental notions
3485 Meiji | own shadow, lingering in wonder over those gigantic, or
3486 Meiji | On the other hand, the wonders of~modern science, since
3487 Tokuga | Those charmingly coloured wood-cuts, full of vigour and versatility,
3488 Kamaku | turn by their own clansmen, wore a priestly garment over
3489 Ashika | purpose of the striving of world-forces, and each stage of culture
3490 Ashika | by contemplation of the world-life expanded before us.; in
3491 Ashika | flowing water. The great World-soul permeated men and nature
3492 Ashika | in union with the great world-spirit. Life was microcosmic and
3493 Intro | the West.~Therefore it is worth while to make some effort
3494 Tokuga | considered a painting to he worthless when it came from the hands
3495 Meiji | foaming with its bubbles of would-be assertiveness, teems with
3496 Kamaku | warp, that which is to be woven upon.~
3497 Meiji | becomes a babe, which, wrapped in its birth-mantle like
3498 Buddhi | in order to leave such wreckage as it has to a later age.
3499 Fujiwa | pains and evils of this wretched life, they could evolve
3500 Meiji | future.~NOTES~Sannyo. - Writer of the Nippon-Gaishi and
3501 Confuc | notes with interest that its writers are always striving to find
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