The Art of Hishikawa Moronobu

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This paper examines the influence of Hishikawa Moronobu on Japanese art before 1952. The paper shows how it is evident that down through the long centuries of Japanese history, the dialectical tension in Japanese society and culture between the competing traditions of high aesthetics and the military code has been expressed in thousands of paintings, books and works of art. The paper explains how at times, high aesthetics assumed greater social influence, while at other times, the militaristic tradition was dominant.

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"The artistic aesthetics of Japan developed down through the centuries in a uniquely Japanese fashion, partly because of this isolated nation's geographic existence as a string of islands about one-hundred miles from the peninsula of Korea and five-hundred miles from China on the Asian mainland."

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