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ÆSTHETIC JAPAN
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(Nature the mistress of art). Unfortunately, what has been said in this chapter applies more to Old Japan than to the Japan of to-day. Modern Japan, whether rightly or wrongly, is becoming tired of being praised for æsthetic excellence, and is more anxious to be appraised and appreciated for its material, social, commercial, and political "progress." To the cultivated Japanese, who regard art as the highest outcome and flowering of civilization, this tendency is not encouraging. And as to the future of Japanese art, its perpetuation must come from excluding rather than attempting to amalgamate Western ideas. In the impressive words of Okakura, the outcome will be "victory from within, or a mighty death without."

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Painting: "The Pictorial Arts of Japan" (Anderson); "Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum" (Anderson); "The Painters of Japan" (Morrison).
Prints: "An Outline of the History of Ukiyo-ye" (Fenollosa); "Geschichte des Japanischen Farbenholzschnitts" (Seidlitz); "Japanese Illustration" (Strange); "Japanese Wood Engravings" (Anderson); "Japanese Wood-cutting and Wood-cut Printing" (Tokuno).
Pottery: "Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" (Morse); "Japan: Its History, Art, and Literature" (Brinkley); "Keramic Art of Japan" (Audsley and Bowes); "L'Art Japonais" (Gonse).
Glyptic Art: "Histoire de l'Art du Japan," published by the Japanese Commission for the Paris Exposition of 1900. This work contains much information about all the arts, not available elsewhere.
Metal Work—Lacquer: "The Industries of Japan" (Rein); "Notes on Shippo" (Bowes); "Ornamental Arts of Japan"
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