Word: ogata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gardner finds Searchlight (see color) "particularly Japanese in its refined monochrome patterns." After the Hurricane also has one Japanese quality-its rendition of energy through design. The stunned stillness, the animal defeat in Homer's watercolor might seem diametrically opposed to Ogata Korin's lively imaginings (see above); yet the two men would have understood each other. Both spoke in terms of powerfully simple compositions...
...Ogata Korin made something of a picnic out of life, but he left great art to posterity. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth. Tokyo's Shirokiya department store has put on exhibition 120 of the Japanese master's pictures in the greatest Korin show ever assembled...
...Ambitions. As the newly merged Liberal-Democratic Party held its first meeting last week, the talk was that Kishi had definitely settled on his candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership...
This strategy has made Hatoyama's newborn Democrats the dominant party in Japan. Last week they won 185 of the 467 seats in the Diet. Yoshida's Liberals (now guided by Taketora Ogata) were reduced to 112 seats. With nowhere else to go but into coalition with their fellow conservatives. Ogata promptly announced that the Liberals would support Hatoyama. Hatoyama may not be in charge for long, but he talks confidently of carrying on for two years. Out of this alliance may come one strong, conservative party, and with Right and Left Socialists also talking merger...
Ichiro Hatoyama had good cause for elation. Last week the big Kyodo news agency polled voters and confirmed the Asahi verdict: 40.8% for Hatoyama; 18% for Taketora Ogata, successor to the fallen Shigeru Yoshida as head of the conservative Liberal Party; 14% for Mosaburo Suzuki of the left-wing (Bevanite) Socialists; 12.5% for Jotaro Kawakami of the moderate, right-wing Socialists. In all, more than 56% of the voters expected that Hatoyama would...