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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... Chapter IX. FEUDAL ART IN JAPAN. Kamakura--The Tosa School. IF Hegel's theory that all forms of existence tend to pass into their opposites needed historic confirmation, a better example could not be found than what happened to Japanese society in the twelfth century. It is as if a cataclysm had suddenly set a new Japan at the antipodes of the old. The revolution of 1868 which destroyed the Feudal system was more rapid indeed, but not more decisive than the one of seven hundred years earlier that inaugurated it. Yet, as in all such strangest extremes of change, the causes were natural, weighty and cumulative. No phase or school of art in human society, however beautiful, but contains within itself the germs of its own destruction. The longer and finer it has been, the more violent becomes the disruption, the more striking the reaction. So with the ultra-refined aristocratic idealism of Fujiwara: in spite of its beauty, its culture, its power, its cunningly devised alliance of the ruling estates, it could not master, tame or fully allow for that unruly demon of selfishness in man, who when he finds forms inconvenient incontinently smashes them. With all its benefits to the land--its proposed peace, its unique enlightenment--this régime had been, after all, the selfish aggrandizement of a single noble clan. So long as great men could rule that clan it bade fair to rule the world. But if as the clan expanded dissensions should arise among its members its power would quickly totter. As a fact, some small dissensions began as far back as the tenth century. In 939 Fujiwara Sumitomo had revolted against his fellows, but had been quickly put down. Through the rest of the tenth and through most of the eleventh centuries the system reigned supreme. It had to en...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217470599
- ISBN 13 9780217470599
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages84
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