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... Japanese and at the same time corre- sponds to the aesthetic sensibility of the modern age . The extraordinary popularity of this 17th - century painter de- veloped principally in the mid - 20th century , when he was recognized by Japanese ...
... Japanese and at the same time corre- sponds to the aesthetic sensibility of the modern age . The extraordinary popularity of this 17th - century painter de- veloped principally in the mid - 20th century , when he was recognized by Japanese ...
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... Japanese biwa ) and skin - bellied version ( Chinese san - hsien , Japanese samisen ) . In Japan , these instruments existed in the year 752 , and the Imperial Treasury at Nara preserves three biwas used at a great concert held in that ...
... Japanese biwa ) and skin - bellied version ( Chinese san - hsien , Japanese samisen ) . In Japan , these instruments existed in the year 752 , and the Imperial Treasury at Nara preserves three biwas used at a great concert held in that ...
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... Japan . Popular Taoist moral tracts were printed and widely diffused in the Tokugawa period . Modern Japanese scholarship on Tao- ism ( Dōkyō ) ranks very high in the world . TAOISM AND OTHER RELIGIONS Confucianism and Buddhism ...
... Japan . Popular Taoist moral tracts were printed and widely diffused in the Tokugawa period . Modern Japanese scholarship on Tao- ism ( Dōkyō ) ranks very high in the world . TAOISM AND OTHER RELIGIONS Confucianism and Buddhism ...
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