Okakura Kakuzō
1863
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1913
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Japan
educated at: Tokyo University, Ranshadō, Tokyo School of Foreign Languages
occupation: writer, art critic, curator, art historian
award received: Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class
student of: James Hamilton Ballagh, Seiko Okuhara
Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三, February 14, 1863 – September 2, 1913), also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform defended traditional forms, customs and beliefs. Outside Japan, he is chiefly renowned for The Book of Tea: A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906). Written in English, and in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War, it decried Western caricaturing of the Japanese, and of Asians more generally, and expressed the fear that Japan gained respect only to the extent that it adopted the barbarities of Western militarism. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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