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... Japanese art for Japan . " He returned to the United States in 1890 , prepared to teach “ the signifi- cance of Japanese art to the West , " as he had been asked to do by the emperor . He presented lectures on the history of Japanese ...
... Japanese art for Japan . " He returned to the United States in 1890 , prepared to teach “ the signifi- cance of Japanese art to the West , " as he had been asked to do by the emperor . He presented lectures on the history of Japanese ...
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... Japanese , but he could neither read nor write in Japanese or Chinese . Profs . Mori and Ariga refer to Li T'ai - po by his Japanese name , Rihaku . Hence Pound , working from the notes , slips back and forth from the Chinese names for ...
... Japanese , but he could neither read nor write in Japanese or Chinese . Profs . Mori and Ariga refer to Li T'ai - po by his Japanese name , Rihaku . Hence Pound , working from the notes , slips back and forth from the Chinese names for ...
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... Japanese ) assiduously during his twenties and thirties , and he read Li T'ai - po ( Rihaku in Japanese ) . Along with the Chinese poets , he traveled with a copy of Chuang Tzu . He seems to have struggled with Zen discipline and ...
... Japanese ) assiduously during his twenties and thirties , and he read Li T'ai - po ( Rihaku in Japanese ) . Along with the Chinese poets , he traveled with a copy of Chuang Tzu . He seems to have struggled with Zen discipline and ...
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