Transcript Custom into Tradition

Custom into Tradition
Is this how culture is modernized?
Ernest F. Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin
Horyuji (founded by Prince Shotoku)
Yumedono
Guze Kannon
Making modern:
categorizing existing
artifacts into a new
epistemology. “A
difference between
Okakura and Fenollosa was
how Japan was to be
located in its expanded
realm, as the past of
Europe (world history) or
as a national unit, with an
autonomous past, present,
and future.”
Tanaka, “Imaging History,” p. 29.
Guze Kannon (Fenollosa)
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Archaic Greek art
Han nose
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Archaic stiffness of
Egyptian art
• Gothic statue from
Amiens
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Source: Mt Holyoke College Interdepartmental images
Guze Kannon (Okakura)
• Spider webs from
Higashiyama period
(1480s)
• Wrapped in pieces of sutra
• Solemnity and serenity
• Style common in Suiko
period (593-628)
• Head and limb large;
pronounced muscles
around nose
Asuka (Suiko) period (552-645)
• Buddhism
• Sui/Tang governing
structure
• Chinese writing
system
• Statuary, painting,
Buddhist architecture
Kudara Kannon Miroku Buddha
Hegel and Herder? The Idea
• Symbolic--the mere
search
• Suiko (Asuka: 6-7th c)
• Classical
• Shomu (Nara, 700s)
• Romantic
• Higashiyama (1480s)
Higashiyama--Ginkaku-ji
(Temple of the Silver Pavilion)
Higashiyama--Ryoanji
Higashiyama--Sesshu
Nihonga and Yôga
Yokoyama Taikan and Wada Eisaku