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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Sesson (died 1495). Dragon. (From The KoJcka.) fleeting pa sages which envelop them with strengthand security, the sculptors found again a little of theradiance of the seated Buddhas whose peaceful coun-tenances had for eight hundred years bent over thefaithful, and whose fingers, raised in their pure gesture,had taught them wisdom. Painting, on the contrary, would not have existedwithout the invasion. The Japanese soul, which hadlost its basis of religion and to which Toba-Sojo hadprematurely given a basis of popular life, was gettingaway from its course and becoming anaemic in the serv-ice of the nobles. With the Tosa school, founded inthe thirteenth century by Tsunetaka, who claimed torepresent the art of the ancient archaic master, Mote-
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Takaubu Fujivvara (Tosa school), l^ortrait (end of the xivCentury). (From The Kokka.) 116 MEDIAEVAL ART mitsu, its tenacity very quickly degenerated intominuteness, its science into skill, and its fineness intopreciosity. When it reached its end in the academicminiatures, in which the court people satisfied theirpuerile taste for antiquated things, the national spirithad long since been delivered of its atrophying influ-ence. Japan was weary from turning about in thesame closed circle, and, having been assailed by theBarbarians ever since her art had emerged from themonastery, being touched by the immeasurable life ofthe new ideas that invasion brought with it, she letherself go with the wind. Toward the end of the fifteenth century, when oldKano Masanobu, impressed by the work of the ChineseJosetsu, founded the great school of Kano, he appealedto continental traditions in order to combat the narrowacademism of Tosa. In so doing he was following thetendencies that his master, Shiubun,

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