Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism : shadows of the past / edited by Brij Tankha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tankha, Brij.

Series:

Brill eBook titles 2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Okakura, Kakuzō, 1862-1913.

Okakura, Kakuzō.

Regionalism--Asia.

Regionalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, Kent, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores four key themes emanating from Okakura Tenshin’s philosophy and legacy: Okakura Tenshin and the Ideal of Pan-Asianism; Other Forms of Pan-Asianism (especially Islam and China); Art and Asia, and Ways of Defining Asia (up to the present day). Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913), art historian and ideologue driven by a notion of Asia bound by culture, is a significant figure in Japan’s modern intellectual history. His writings in both Japanese and English became part of a growing discourse that positioned Japan as the guardian and protector of Asia against the depredations, cultural as much as economic and political, of the West. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, the first line of Okakura’s 1903 book (‘Asia is One’), The Ideals of the East , was celebrated posthumously by the Japanese military as the most powerful expression of Japan’s goal of political ascendancy in Asia.

Contents:

pt. 1. Okakura Tenshin : crafting an ideal

pt. 2. Asian Pan-Asianisms

pt. 3. Art and Asia : varieties of engagement

pt. 4. Ways of defining Asia.

Notes:

Originally published as: Shadows of the past of Okakura Tenshin and pan-Asianism. Calcutta : SAMPARK, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Shadows of the past of Okakura Tenshin and pan-Asianism.

ISBN:

1-282-08900-5

9786612089008

90-04-21323-6

OCLC:

753480485

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9781905246618.i-176 DOI