Ideals of the East

By: Kakuzo Okakura

This is a short but very concise introduction to Asian art. Written from a Japanese perspective, and focusing on Japanese art, one of the major themes is the relationship between spirituality, particularly Buddhism, and the evolution of Asian art."The long systolic centuries--in which India, crippled in her power to give, shrank back upon herself, and China, self-absorbed in recovery from the shock of Mongol tyranny, lost her intellectual hospitality--succeeded the epoch of Mahmoud of Ghazni, in the eleventh century. But the old energy of communication lived yet in the great moving sea of the Tartar hordes, whose waves recoiled from the long walls of the North, to break upon and overrun the Punjab. The Hunas, the Sakas, and the Gettaes, grim ancestors of the Rajputs, had been the forerunners of that great Mongol outburst which, under Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, spread over the Celestial soil, to deluge it with Bengali Tantrikism, and flooded the Indian peninsula, to tinge its Mussulman Imperialism with Mongolian polity and art."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153692234X
• ISBN13: 9781536922349
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"