Okakura Kakuzo, also known as Okakura Tenshin, was a Japanese scholar and art critic who, in the era of the Meiji Restoration reforms, promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs. Outside Japan he is chiefly renowned for The Book of Tea. He was born in 1863 and died in 1913. The Book of Tea was written in English in 1906, in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War, and decried Western caricaturing of the Japanese and of Asians more generally. It expressed the fear that Japan gained respect only to the extent that it adopted Western militarism.
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was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs
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Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三; February 14, 1863
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September 2, 1913), also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs. Outside
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