Word: kamakura
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...exibit consists of three rooms containing hanging scrolls from different periods of Japanese history; of these, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Tokugawa are the best represented. This allows the viewer to compare scroll work from various periods in a relaxed, informal setting...
...insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak and splits off. Hence the elongated, torpedo-like form of a Shinto deity from Japan's Kamakura period (12th-14th centuries)-a courtier, oddly clownlike in his peaked cap and baggy pants, but carved with a reductive formal elegance that might have inspired Brancusi seven centuries later. All its shapes are circumscribed by the block; one could roll it downhill...
...honor and bloody revenge that is almost Sicilian in tone. In its entirety, the play runs to eleven acts and two days, but only the first four acts are being performed by the Grand Kabuki during its current U.S. tour. The story is transparently simple. Moronao, the governor of Kamakura, lusts after Lady Kaoyo, the wife of Hangan, one of Moronao's deputies. She rebuffs him. Moronao is furious and showers abuse on the unsuspecting and inoffensive Hangan. Pushed beyond sense and patience, Hangan draws his sword and strikes at Moronao. But he is in the sacred precincts...
...Shwe Dagon pagoda in Rangoon, Burma, a 28-ft.-long, 19th century figure representing the attainment of nirvana. (For a look at the other side of this Buddha, see the photograph above.) The dominating figure in the center of the cover is copied from the Great Buddha of Kamakura, which is perhaps the best-known representation of a Buddha in the world. The 42-ft.-high bronze figure has 656 curls, 6-ft.-long ears and a yard-wide mouth on its 7-ft.-high face. Seated, with hands in lap, palms up and thumbs together in the traditional Buddhist...
...sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred beer for breakfast-and whisky in the evening. With two other working lushes, he once killed two fifths of whisky...