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NON-RECEIPT OF OVERDUE NOTICES DOES NOT EXEMPT THE BORROWER FROM OVERDUE FEES. I... Page 208 - Still again, realizing that greed of territory would lead the European powers sooner or later to seek the partition of China and the political control of the Mongolian lands of the Far East, Japan wished to stir China from her. lethargy, make herself... Page 78 - He is the spirit of change, therefore of life itself. . . . Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomed depth of the sea, he awaits the time when he slowly rouses himself into activity. He unfolds himself in the storm clouds; he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething whirlpools. His claws are in the fork of the lightning, his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rain-swept pine trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane which, scattering the withered leaves... Page 77 - Approach him cautiously, for no mortal can survive the sight of his entire body. The Eastern dragon is not the gruesome monster of mediaeval imagination, but the genius of strength and goodness. He is the spirit of change, therefore of life itself. . . . Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomed depth of the sea, he awaits the time when he slowly rouses himself into activity. He unfolds himself in the storm clouds; he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething... Page 8 - Hwang-ho had from early days evolved a culture comparable with that of the era of highest enlightenment in Greece and Rome, one which even foreshadowed the trend of advanced thought in modern Europe. "Buddhism, introduced into China and the... Page 6 - ... Okakura puts these two elements of the Japanese spirit cogently and clearly: "Our sympathizers have been pleased to marvel at the facility with which we have introduced Western science and industries, constitutional government, and the organization necessary for carrying on a gigantic war. They forget that the strength of the movement which brought Japan to her present position is due not less to the innate virility which has enabled her to assimilate the teachings of a foreign civilization than... Page 178 - Japanese chivalry, the samurai, although ever at the service of 177 12 the weak and oppressed, gave his help quite irrespective of sex. To-day we are convinced that the elevation of woman is the elevation of the race. She is the epitome of the past and the reservoir of the future, so that the responsibilities of the new social life which is dawning on the ancient realms of the Sun-goddess may be safely intrusted to her care. Page 78 - Jlgbtiilng; his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rain-swept pine-trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane which, scattering the withered leaves of the forest, quickens a new spring. The dragon reveals himself only to vanish. He is a glorious symbolic image of that elasticity of organisms which shakes off the inert mass of exhausted matter. Page 99 - ... are ruthlessly dominated by the monster they have created. In spite of the vaunted freedom of the West, true individuality is destroyed in the competition for wealth, and happiness and contentment are sacrificed to an incessant craving for more. The West takes pride in its emancipation from mediaeval superstition, but what of that idolatrous worship of wealth that has taken its place? Page 3 - The sudden development of Japan has been more or less of an enigma to foreign observers. She is the country of flowers and ironclads, of dashing heroism and delicate tea-cups, — the strange borderland where quaint shadows cross each other in the twilight of the New and the Old World. Until recently the West has never taken Japan seriously. It is amusing to find nowadays that such success as we have achieved in our efforts to take a place among the family of nations appears in the eyes of many as... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarOkakura Kakuzo and the Production of the Japan Discourse in the ...Christiana Reinhold Said, Orientalism, and Japan.Daisuke Nishihara - 2005 - Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics References from web pagesThe Awakening of Japan by Kakuz*O Okakura at Questia Online Library :: Metropolis Tokyo :: Art Taro Okamoto Memorial Award book of tea H-Net Review: Joseph M. Henning <jhenning@stvincent.edu> on Art in ... Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK DEVE The Developing Economies ... JSTOR: On Idealism and Realism in the Thought of Okakura Tenshin Okakura Kakuzo and the Production of the Japan Discourse in the ... Christine Guth - Charles Longfellow and Okakura Kakuzo: Cultural ... Said, Orientalism, and Japan. - Free Online Library A Japanese Book. Bibliographic information
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