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Excerpt from The Ideals of the East: With Special Reference to the Art of Japan Kakuzu Okakura, the author of this work on Japanese Art Ideals - and the future author, as we hope, of a longer and completely illustrated book on the same subject - has been long known to his own people and to others as the foremost living authority on Oriental Archaeology and Art. Although then young, he was made a member of the Imperial Art Commission which was sent out by the Japanese Government in the year 1886 to study the art history and movements of Europe and the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.