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...RIVAL FACTIONS are equally immoral and led by men of ordinary appearance: a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) and a sake merchant (Takashi Simura). These men manipulate groups of extraordinarily conceived caracatures of evil. The degeneracy of the merchants is hidden beneath masks of respectibility and only when they make their plans is the full measure of their malevolence revealed. With their henchmen, however, the situation is different. They boldly flaunt their fugitive status and are terrifyingly eager to implement the merchant's plans for destruction. A henchman (Tatsuys Nakadai) of the sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person...
...portrait of the traveling monk Zemmui, a member of the Tendai Buddhist sect, which ranks as a Japanese Giotto. It is a masterpiece of the 11th century, when the Fujiwara shoguns reigned, encouraging the arts as the Medicis did in Italy. The unknown artist profiles the Indian-born patriarch, a posture seldom used before, and gives him a Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear...
...Ginjiro Fujiwara, Munitions Minister. Implacable enemy of labor and liberalism, he represents the Mitsui interests and big industry. He learned the job of supplying troops with munitions during the Russo-Japanese...
...addition to the collection of German woodcuts, there is an exhibit of Japanese Buddhist art which covers three major periods in the development of the art of that country. The paintings and statues are particularly interesting because it was during the Fujiwara and Kamakura periods, both of which are represented in the exhibit, that Japan gradually threw off the yoke of Chinese influence in the arts, and began to establish an indigenous culture...
...Ginjiro Fujiwara, Japan's "Paper King" (he virtually controls the production of newsprint), Japan's most positive and noisy industrialist, was also along. A notorious labor-baiter, the Paper King writes sanctimonious essays praising Japan's simple life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...