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...Japan, where tradition is nine-tenths of art, Western-style abstractions are often greeted with polite blank stares. But last week in the seaside city of Kamakura, 25 miles from Tokyo, art lovers were treated to some modernism that no one wanted to ignore. On view were more than 130 aggressively new objects, everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces...
...take some doing. Packing up their exhibition in Kamakura last week (for a further display in Manhattan this winter), Noguchi and his wife had no idea whether the show was a success or a flop. "Japanese in general still prefer the traditional," said Shirley. But the crowds were big and the critics seemed to be getting the idea. When one Japanese professor said that he thought all Noguchi's work looked like doughnuts, the art critic for Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun rapped back: "I urge him to see this show, because even doughnuts make good...
...unbombed resort of Kamakura, police received 10,000 applications for licenses to operate dance halls, cabarets and cafés to occupy the occupying troops...
Toward Coolness. As he set sail last January aboard the Kamakura Maru to take up his appointment in the U.S., Admiral Nomura was tall with hope. At first things went swimmingly. At Honolulu U.S. naval officers, among them Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet Admiral James O. Richardson, greeted him as pretty girls laid leis about his neck. Off California two destroyers met his ship. As he sailed through the Golden Gate a battery at Fort Winfield Scott fired a 19-gun salute. In San Francisco reporters interviewed him and Nisei (U.S.-born Japanese) feted...
...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...