Download or read book The Ideals of the East written by Kakasu Okakura and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ideals of the East: With Special Reference to the Art of Japan Kakuzo okakura, the author of this work on Japanese Art Ideals - and the future author, as we hope, of a longer and completely illustrated book on the same subject - has been long known to his own people and to others as the foremost living authority on Oriental Archaeology and Art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.