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...head of the department of Asian art at the Sackler Museum. The Japanese items include three superb examples of early Buddhist sculpture. “Each one of these sculptures is of national treasure quality,” Mowry said. The highlight, however, is a sculpture of Prince Shotoku, dated to 1292, which Mowry described as “magnificent,” and “the single most important [Japanese] sculpture anywhere in the West.” The sculpture was originally bought in Japan in 1936 by the grandfather of Walter C. Sedgwick...
...years the face of Shotoku, the prince of sagely virtue who drafted Japan's first constitution more than a dozen centuries ago, has calmly but sternly graced Japanese bank notes. But the prince is being deposed. On Nov. 1, he will be replaced on 10,000 yen notes (about $40) by a more modern figure, Yukichi Fukuzawa, an important figure in the Westernization of Japan in the 19th century. On 5,000 yen bills, where Shotoku had also ruled, goes Inazo Nitobe, an official in the old League of Nations. The new face on a 1 ,000 yen note...
There is also a yen for more yen. In a recent association test, a group of Japanese businessmen were asked what the sight of a 10,000-yen banknote made them think of. Most of them replied: 1) Prince Shotoku, the 7th century statesman pictured on the note, and 2) horse racing...
...Masaham Anesaki, professor of Japanese Literature and Life, will deliver the first of his series of lectures on "Representative Figures in the Religious History of Japan" this afternoon in Emerson D at 4.30 o'clock. The subject will be "The Introduction of Buddhism and the Buddhist Statesmanship of Prince Shotoku...
...Lecture on "Representative Figures in the Religious History of Japan. I. "The Introduction of Buddhism and the Buddhist Statesmanship of Prince Shotoku," by Professor Anesaki, in Emerson...