French version
Okakura Tenshin岡倉天心 岡倉覚三alternative words: Okakura Kakuzo, Tenshin Okakura, Kakuzo Okakura keywords: art , famous person , scholar related topics: Yokoyama Taikan , Hashimoto Gaho related web sites: http://www.tenshin-museum.org explanation: Born in 1862 in Yokohama. When he was a student at Tokyo university, he met Ernest Fenollosa and decided to restore the value of Japanese art. First he entered the education ministry and organized a protection of old Japanese art. He founded in 1890 the first Japanese art academy, Tokyo bijutsu gakko. After the eviction, he founded Nihon Bijutsuin to synthesize Japanese and western arts with Hashimoto Gaho and Yokoyama Taikan then led Asian section of Boston Museum in 1904. He died in 1913. | |