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Title: The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v. 1-3 (no. 1-10), Apr. 1904-Sept. 1905
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: Tokyo : Kindodo-shosekikabushiki-kaisha (The Kinkodo publishing co)
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ins and villages instead of thedelicate suggestions and hints of thetrue Japanese art. The priest Josetsu,Mincho, Shubun, Sesshu, Oguri Sotan,Soga Dasoku, Kano Masanobu thefather, Motonobu the son, werethe most famous painters of the new-style, and the Kano school perpetuated healing, w^omen-doctors, childrens doc-tors, specialists for small-pox andmidwifery, acupuncturists and dentists.There were also many artists ofvarious kinds, professional writers andcalligraphists, painters on silk andgold lacqtier, tea makers and poets.The dancers and musicians were asbefore dancers of sarugaku and den-gakuy manzai, shirahyoshi, kusemaigoze (blind dancing girls), playerson biwa and other musical instru-ments. Tradesmen often engagedinterpreters to perform their businesswith foreigners. Education, which had sunk verylow in the previous period, entirelydisappeared. One school only kept itsdoors open during this forlorn age,the celebrated Ashikaga school in theprovince of Shimotsuke, which, iesta-
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A Girl of the Gcnroku Age playing at Battle-door and Shuttle-cock. MANNERS AND: CUSTOMS.OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE. 73^ blished we cannot exactly say when;,was restored by Ashikaga Mptottjiwhen Governor of Kamakura, in 1345.,Some 90 years later it. received morebenefactions from Uyesugi Norizane,,another Governor of Kamakura, whoendowed it with land and money, andan excellent library. When the civiltroubles came upon the land it wasable to keep open, and being the onlyinstitution of learning in the countryattracted a large number of students.The school continued its activitythroughout the period of the Toku-gawa rule and was reconstructed byYoshimune, the eighthShogun of that line. Itsmost famous scholar atthe time of its revivalby Motouji was a Zenpriest of the name ofKwaigen, and the wholeeducation which mainlyconsisted of literatureand ethics, was in thehands of these priests.The Zen clergy also con-trived to keep at Kyototraditions of learning,though not schools, andtheir five religio

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