[143] The new “English-Japanese Dictionary of the Spoken Language” (1904) is indispensable.
[144] See chap. xxiii. of “Japan in History, Folk-lore and Art” (Griffis).
[145] See “Chautauquan” for April, 1902.
[146] For a statistical table of schools in the empire, see Appendix.
[147] Official translation, revised.
[148] This has recently secured the famous Max Müller Library.
[149] “The Soul of the Far East,” p. 121.
[150] While it is possible and even probable that this movement may have begun before the formal introduction of Buddhism from Korea in the year 552, our present knowledge of the history of art in Japan anterior to that event is not sufficient to warrant any definite assertion respecting it.
[151] See “The Ideals of the East,” by Kakasu Okakura. London, 1903.
[152] The principal collections of Japanese paintings in America are the Fenollosa collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and that of Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit. A few fine works are owned by Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, Mr. Howard Mansfield, and Mr. C. D. Weldon, of New York; Mr. Denman Ross, Mr. Quincy A. Shaw, and Mrs. John Gardner, of Boston; Mr. Charles J. Morse, of Uniontown, Pa.; and Mr. Frederick W. Gookin, of Chicago. In England the most notable collections are those of the British Museum and Mr. Arthur Morrison, of Loughton. There are also a number of private collections in France and Germany.