... more profound imagination have begun to superimpose themselves on the old ingrained attitude. As a result, and as a contributing influence towards this change, oriental or at any rate Chinese and Japanese art has begun to command something like adequate recognition. But the change has not yet gone far enough for a thorough appreciation of the deepest and most characteristic spirit and inspiration ...
... s. - May 18 Kamo Maru arrives in Yokohama, Japan. 'For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.' 'Beauty rules over Japan as an uncontestable master'; Japanese art teaches 'the unity of art with life'. 1916-1917 Stays for a year in Tokyo with Dr. Okhawa Shumei, a Zen practitioner and an active sympathiser with the Indian freedom movement. Shumei: 'We ...
... capable of the most glorious and self-immolating actions and capable equally of the most cruel and cynical crimes. He remembered, too, how he himself had taught John that peculiar trick of the Japanese art of slaying. In a certain sense he himself was responsible for Isabel's death. How wise were the Easterns in their rigid reticence when they taught only to prepared and disciplined natures the secrets ...
... hey begin with the Greek Thales and Anaximander, as if human thinking began with them. That is the old style European mind. It used to be the same in Art and other matters. Now Chinese and Japanese art is recognised and to a less degree the art of India, Persia and the former Indian colonies in the Far-East, but in philosophy the old ideas still reign. "From Thales to Bergson" is their idea of ...
... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 12 April 1951 What is the difference between Japanese art and the art of other countries, like those of Europe, for example? The art of Japan is a kind of directly mental expression in physical life. The Japanese use the vital world very little. Their art is extremely mentalised; their life is extremely ...
... Eastern – art gives a side-view; Indian art gives a view from above.* Or we may say, in psychological terms, that European art embodies experiences of the conscious mind and the external senses, Japanese art gives expression to experiences that one has through the subtler touches of the nerves and the sensibility, and Indian art proceeds through a spiritual consciousness and records experiences of the ...
... luminaries of contemporary India, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy, Bepin Chandra Pal, Brahmabandhava Upadhyaya, Ramananda Chatterji, R.C. Dutt, Okakura, the Japanese art connoisseur, Gokhale, Tilak etc., she exerted a great influence in various fields of the resurgent life of the nation. Jagadish Chandra Bose and P.C. Roy gave her a run of their laboratories ...
... to patch up their differences, 188. P.C. Mitter, a well-known barrister, who organised the Anusilan Samiti in Bengal in collaboration with Sarala Devi at the instance of Baron Okakura, a Japanese art-connoisseur. He had "a spiritual life and aspiration and a strong religious feeling." 189. Sarala Devi Ghosal, a niece of Rabindranath Tagore. We have already referred to her as the foremost ...
... years in Japan. "I had everything to learn in Japan," she said. "For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder." 9 What immediately struck her was the fact that Japanese art, like Japanese life, was extremely mentalised. "It expresses in detail quite precise mental formations." The Japanese people - not the artists and the connoisseurs alone, but the common people ...
... continued to attract sadhaks and visitors from all over the world. Mr. Josef Szarka, a dedicated Austrian seeker came for good in August 1957, Since he was also a holder of the Black Belt in Judo, the Japanese art of wrestling, the Department of Physical Education was able, in February 1958, to introduce classes in Judo and Jiu-Jitsu under his competent guidance. And, at the Department's request to the Government ...
... rooms where the Japanese exhibition was being held. No one else was there. Tosiko Kawaguchi showed me round and told me many fascinating things about Japan. When the Mother came finally to stay with Sri Aurobindo, on April 24, 1920, she brought with her many things she had used in Japan. The display was arranged in four rooms. The first showed the country, the second its art and culture, the... the third the contrast between the Japan of 1919 and the new one of 1955, and the fourth room was devoted to home life. Tosiko Kawaguchi, Tasinore Murakoshi and Akira Noda took a vital part in the organisation. They also arranged a Japanese garden in the grounds of Golconde, with many dwarf Bonzai trees, which are a speciality of Japanese horticultural art. Facing the tea basement they created a rockery... there were all sorts of beautiful objects: Japanese crockery, tapestries, the Mother's hand-written scripts in Japanese.... In brief, they created a miniature Japan in Golconde. ...
... as Rabindranath Tagore. ‘The art of Japan is a kind of a direct mental expression in physical life. The Japanese use the vital world very little. Their art is extremely mentalized; their life is extremely mentalized. It expresses in detail quite precise mental formations. Only in the physical do they have spontaneously the sense of beauty.’ 23 ‘It was a Japanese street brilliantly illuminated... barbarians and looked upon as intruders; but if you want to live a Japanese life among the Japanese you must do as they do, otherwise you make them so unhappy that you can’t even have any relation with them.’ 18 Mirra was overwhelmed by the Japanese sense of physical and natural beauty. ‘I had everything to learn in Japan. For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder... been witness. It is not surprising that the Government of India again received a report on To Japan. ‘It is reported that Mr. Paul Richard is about to publish a book entitled To Japan, in which he urges Japan to liberate Asia from European domination. The book will be published in English, Japanese and Chinese, and copies will be distributed by the Pan-Asiatic League … While living in Pondicherry ...
... Ceremony with its aesthetic and religious undertones, and the psychology and philosophy behind the Japanese :mystique of flower arrangement - all this could not fail to make a deep ,impression upon Mirra's sensitised and wide-awake consciousness. V After the first few months in Japan, Mirra realised that it was really a country of sensations. The people were, as a general rule,... Page 194 In Japan, about 1918 unlikely that the muted charm and tested efficacy of the tea ceremony made a deep impression on Mirra, and a few of its features may have entered the far more spiritually profound Soup ceremony of the earlier years of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The dainty narrow mats and the small low tables of the Japanese Tea Room were likewise to provide... Naturalistic; and it is said that many a flower arrangement aims at insinuating the filiations between Heaven, Earth, and the intermediate principle, Man. While she was in Japan, Mirra was fascinated by the Japanese addiction to the cult of flowers and their marvellous talent for flower arrangement, and it is hardly a coincidence that in Sri Aurobindo Ashram too the cult of flowers was to ...
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