1. Tachiki, Satoko, "Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) And Boston Brahmins." Tachiki, Satoko, "Okakura Kakuzo (18621913) and Boston Brahmins " University of Michigan, January 1986. Advisor David Huntington (11, 23) http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/dis/86tach.html

Tachiki, Satoko, "Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Boston Brahmins," University of Michigan, January 1986. Advisor: David Huntington (11, 23) This dissertation is a biographical account of Kakuzo Okakuro (1862-1913), a Japanese art and cultural critic who later served as an advisor and a curator of the Department of Japanese and Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1903 to 1913. Its main purpose is to clarify Okakura's aesthetic and cultural affinities with those of the Boston Brahmins. Okakura's aesthetic and cultural affinities with those of the Boston Brahmins. Okakura's aesthetic idealism, based on Zen and Taoist philosophy, was particularly attractive to the Boston Brahmins. The interest in Japanese culture within the Boston community at the turn of the century is highlighted. Back to the Alphabetic List of Dissertations Back to the Crossroads Project Homepage

2. Book Review: The Book Of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo, 18621913. Olcott, Frances Jenkins http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/bookreview/item_2503.html

See all practices Attention Beauty Being Present Compassion Connections Devotion Enthusiasm Faith Forgiveness Grace Gratitude Hope Hospitality Imagination Joy Justice Kindness Listening Love Meaning Nurturing Openness Peace Play Questing Reverence Shadow Silence Teachers Transformation Unity Vision Wonder X - The Mystery Yearning You Zeal Book Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat The Book of Tea: The Illustrated Classic Edition Okakura Kakuzo Tuttle Publishing 12/00 Hardcover $26.95 ISBN 0-8048-3219-6 Here is a new edition of this classic written in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) who was born in Japan but served as Curator of the Department of Chinese and Japanese art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Originally written to be read aloud by the author at Isabella Stewart Gardner's famous salon, The Book of Tea presents an elegant glimpse into the culture that engendered the Eastern aesthetic. The text is enhanced with photos by Daniel Proctor and an introduction by Liza Dalby, author of Geisha. Whether commenting on the bubbles while water boils, the intricate simplicity of the tearoom, or the beauty of flowers, the author revels in the small details that contribute to the blending of art and life. One of the most memorable lines in the book is, "The art of life lies in the constant readjustment to our surroundings." Yes, and that remains one of the major challenges of our times. Search our reviews database This touches on: Beauty Nurturing Email This Review

3. American National Biography Online Okakura Kakuzo (23 Dec. 18622 Sept. 1913), art historian, connoisseur, and author of The Book of Tea, and John Ellerton Lodge, "Okakura-Kakuzo 1862-1913 " appeared in Museum of http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01634-article.html

Okakura Kakuzo (23 Dec. 1862-2 Sept. 1913) , art historian, connoisseur, and author of The Book of Tea , was born in Yokohama, Japan, the son of Okakura Kanemon, a silk merchant and former samurai, and his wife, Kono. His eclectic upbringing and gift for languages fitted "Tenshin" (or "heart of heaven," the honorific name by which Okakura is known to the Japanese) for the role of cultural ambassador to the West. Okakura and his younger brother Yoshisaburo (later a professor of English and for a time a translator for Lafcadio Hearn ) learned English at the local Christian mission school of Dr. James Hepburn , the inventor of the system for Romanization of Japanese words that is still in use. Okakura also studied classical Chinese at a Buddhist temple. An arranged marriage with Motoko Ooka took place in 1879; the couple would later have a son and a daughter. Okakura graduated in 1880 from the Faculty of Letters at the newly founded Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied with Ernest Fenollosa , a leader in the effort to preserve traditional Japanese arts in the face of the Westernizing Meiji government. Inspired by Fenollosa, Okakura published in 1882 a defense of calligraphy as a fine art. Fenollosa and Okakura carried out an extensive government-sponsored survey of the art collections of Buddhist temples. In 1886 the two men were appointed to the Imperial Commission of Enquiry to study methods of art education in Europe and the United States with a view toward establishing a national art academy in Japan. In his own writings and speeches, Okakura marked out a middle path between unquestioning preservation of Japanese traditions and the wholesale adoption of "European" methods and ideas. "Conformity is the domicile of bad habits," he wrote. "Art is a product of past history combined with present conditions. It develops from this fusion of past and present."

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6. American Studies Dissertations, 1986-2000 Reference Research. American Studies Dissertations, 19862002. T. Tachiki,Satoko, Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Boston Brahmins. ; Tal, Kali Jo. http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/dis/dissertations_t.html

American Studies Dissertations, 1986-2002 T Tachiki, Satoko, "Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Boston Brahmins." Tal, Kali Jo. "Bearing Witness: The Literature of Trauma." Tamashiro, John G., "The Evolution of Konkokyo, a Japanese Religion in Hawaii." Tang, Edward. "Revolutionary Legacies: History, Literature, and Memory in Nineteenth-Century America, 1820,1880." ... Visitor's Book This section last updated October, 2000 . Please send comments to Crossroads Webstaff

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8. American National Biography Online Okakura Kakuzo (23 Dec. 18622 Sept. 1913), art historian, connoisseur, and author of The Book of Tea, and John Ellerton Lodge, "Okakura-Kakuzo 1862-1913 " appeared in Museum of http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01634-print.html

Click Print on your browser to print the article. Close this window to return to the ANB Online. Okakura Kakuzo (23 Dec. 1862-2 Sept. 1913), art historian, connoisseur, and author of The Book of Tea , was born in Yokohama, Japan, the son of Okakura Kanemon, a silk merchant and former samurai, and his wife, Kono. His eclectic upbringing and gift for languages fitted "Tenshin" (or "heart of heaven," the honorific name by which Okakura is known to the Japanese) for the role of cultural ambassador to the West. Okakura and his younger brother Yoshisaburo (later a professor of English and for a time a translator for Lafcadio Hearn) learned English at the local Christian mission school of Dr. James Hepburn, the inventor of the system for Romanization of Japanese words that is still in use. Okakura also studied classical Chinese at a Buddhist temple. An arranged marriage with Motoko Ooka took place in 1879; the couple would later have a son and a daughter. During the summer of 1886, the historian Henry Adams and the painter John La Farge visited Japan. Their hosts were Fenollosa, Okakura, and Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow (a significant collector and benefactor of the Japan collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). That fall, Okakura and Fenollosa joined Adams and La Farge on their return journey, to begin their official tour of Western art institutions. Through his close personal friendship with La Farge, Okakura helped develop the fusion of Japanese and Western motifs that emerged in such impressive works as La Farge's Church of the Ascension mural in New York City (where the background is a Japanese mountain landscape) and the Adams Memorial in Washington by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The latter was designed for the grave of Henry Adams's wife, Clover, who had committed suicide just before the Japan journey, and draws on Japanese conceptions of Kannon, the Buddhist deity of mercy.

9. Project Gutenberg Author Index Ogg, Frederic Austin, 18781951. Ohnet, Georges, 1848-1918. Okakura, Kakuzo,1862-1913. Olcott, Frances Jenkins. Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/author_index_O.html

Project Gutenberg Author Index "O" O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862 O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928 O'Meara, James, 1825-1903 O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 ... Ozaki, Yei Theodora To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

10. Okakura Kakuzo, The Book Of Tea, Terebess Asia Online (TAO) Terebess Asia Online (TAO) Index Home. The Book of Tea (1904) by Okakura Kakuzô(Okakura Tenshin, 18621913). Table of Contents. The Cup of Humanity. http://www.terebess.hu/english/okakura.html

Terebess Asia Online (TAO) Index Home The Book of Tea (1904) by (Okakura Tenshin, 1862-1913) Table of Contents The Cup of Humanity The Schools of Tea Taoism and Zennism The Tea-Room ... Tea-Masters The Cup of Humanity Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticismTeaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste. The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer, paintingour very literatureall have been subject to its influence. No student of Japanese culture could ever ignore its presence. It has permeated the elegance of noble boudoirs, and entered the abode of the humble. Our peasants have learned to arrange flowers, our meanest labourer to offer his salutation to the rocks and waters. In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. Again we stigmatise the untamed aesthete who, regardless of the mundane tragedy, runs riot in the springtide of emancipated emotions, as one "with too much tea" in him.

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Retour à la liste des archives Grande Salle du ve 3 au sa 11 sept jeune public " Dans le vide, seul le mouvement est possible " Okakura Kakuzo Laura Tanner Musique : Christian Oestreicher Jesus Moreno Marc Gaillard Danseurs : Mena Avolio, Marc Berthon, Mariene Grade, Diana Lambert, Adrain Rusmali, Laura Tanner Sculpter l'ombre d'Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) ainsi que de L'Eloge de l'ombre Pierres de pluie Tiempo Tiempo "Et pour voir ce que ce que cela peut donner, eh bien je m'en vais éteindre ma lampe électrique" Junichiro Tanizaki Haut de page Théâtre du Grütli - rue Général-Dufour 16 - 1204 Genève info@grutli.ch

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18. ISGM Calendar: Saturday Programs Collection Talk Okakura Kakuzo and the West The Aesthete, Poet and Connoisseur,by The Japanese art historian and critic Okakura Kakuzò (18621913). http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/saturday.asp

Calendar: Saturday Programs Saturday Programs Enjoy a lively Saturday exploring the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In addition to the magnificient permanent collection, the seasonal courtyard display and the special exhibition there are a variety of unique programs available every Saturday this season. Jazz, performance art and contemporary conversations, family fun and collection talks—there's something for everyone at the Gardner and, except for the jazz concerts, all events are FREE. In addition to these programs we also offer ongoing Gallery Talks on the current Special Exhibition at 12:00 noon. Spend a Saturday at the Gardner , it may just surprise you. April 2003 5 Saturday 1:30 p.m. Jazz at the Gardner The Fully Celebrated Orchestra Jim Hobbs, saxophone Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet Timo Shanko, bass Django Carranza, drums Tickets: Adults $18; Seniors $12; College Students $10; Members $10; Children (5-17) $5 View a complete concert schedule and purchase tickets 12 Saturday 12:00–4:00 p.m. Open Rehearsal, The Gardner Chamber Orchestra

19. Boston.com / Museum Of Fine Arts / Chinese Paintings / Press Room Fenollosa's successor at the MFA was his student, Okakura Kakuzo (18621913),who had accompanied him in Japan as he searched for temple relics. http://www.boston.com/mfa/chinese/orientalist.htm

Fun facts: "The Boston Orientalists" The collectors and curators who helped form the collection of Chinese and other Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston were known in their heyday as the "Boston Orientalists." An unlikely coterie of Brahmins turned Buddhists, maverick scientists and society physicians, artist-scholars and bohemians, few of them had actually visited China. Their most influential member was Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) the son of a Spanish musician who settled in Salem, Mass. Fenollosa studied philosophy at Harvard University and painting at the MFA School when, at 25, he was invited to teach philosophy at the Imperial University in Tokyo. Eventually he became the MFA's first curator of Japanese art. Fenollosa went to the Far East at the same time that Japan looked to the West to modernize. The prestige of Japanese traditional arts was in serious decline, and Fenollosa soon devoted himself to its revival, visiting temples and "ransacked godowns" (warehouses) in search of statues and art from ruined pagodas. He recorded the first list of Japan's national treasures, and found, to his delight, ancient Chinese scrolls brought there by traveling Zen monks centuries earlier. The Japanese soon made him their Imperial Art Commissioner, and he became the first foreigner to achieve world recognition as a specialist in the art of Japan and China. Like other "Boston Orientalists," Fenollosa saw China through a Japanese screen, viewing it as the classical Greece of the East, albeit one that had lapsed into permanent decline after the Mongol conquest. In a June, 1892 article for

20. Boston.com / Museum Of Fine Arts / Chinese Paintings / Press Room came to represent both imperial power and, in Daoist cosmology, the arousing creativeforces of Nature, what MFA curator Okakura Kakuzo (18621913) called the http://www.boston.com/mfa/chinese/lives.htm

Fun facts: Lives and legends of the artists The great classical painters of China included emperors and statesmen, as well as scholars, priests and recluses. Just as the West evolved its own legends of artist rebels, prodigies and eccentrics, so in China painters and literati were idealized as cultural heroes in writings that often blurred the boundaries of fact and fiction. This rich anecdotal lore was preserved in early painting histories, classical poetry, essays and colophons attached to scrolls. Such stories reflect the aesthetic vision and sensibilities of China's literati: how they saw themselves, how they remembered past masters and wished themselves to be remembered. Among the more prodigious feats recounted in these sometimes apocryphal tales were those associated with the "sage of painting" Wu Daozi (act. ca. 710-760 A.D.), whose art survives only in later copies or attributed works such as Daoist Deity of Heaven . Wu's murals of Buddhist hells so frightened viewers that butchers in the Tang capital of Chang'an changed their profession when they saw the punishments awaiting them for slaughtering animals in this life. As an artist in the court of the Tang Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712-756 A.D.), Wu Daozi was once asked to paint a landscape on a palace wall; within days of its completion, he was ordered to erase it because the noise of its waterfall interrupted the Emperor's sleep! Such stories reflect ancient Chinese beliefs in the magical powers of the brush in painting and calligraphy.

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