About the old Chinese book collection of Okakura Tenshin at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• Matsumura Shigeki

  Faculty of Language and Literature, Otsuma Women’s University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• ボストン美術館所蔵岡倉天心旧蔵漢籍について

Abstract

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the United States, is a world-famous museum, and also called the Oriental Art Hall of Fame. The oriental art collection was maintained by Okakura Tenshin (named Kakuzo, 1862-1913), who was enrolled from 1904 until 1913 when he passed away. Okakura had an excellent academic knowledge, however he wasn’t familiar with Chinese studies, so he deepened his knowledge of Chinese studies with the help of his friend Nagao Uzan (1864-1942), who formed a friendship with “The last literati in China” Wu Changshuo (1844-1927). When he lived in Shanghai. I stayed in Boston as a visiting scholar at Boston University for one year since April 2015, and had the opportunity to conduct research on materials about Okakura and Nagao at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Then, in the library of the Chinese and Japanese Art Department, I surveyed 226 old Chinese books purchased, and created the list. It was included that 39 old Chinese books owned by Okakura. In this article, I introduced and analyzed the old Chinese book collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I hope that this article will reveal some of Okakura's achievements accomplished.

Journal

• International Journal of Human Culture Studies

  International Journal of Human Culture Studies 2020 (30), 122-133, 2020-01-01

  Institute of Human Culture Studies, Otsuma Women's University

Keywords

• the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Okakura Tenshin
• the old Chinese book collection

Details

• CRID: 1390846609811985792
• NII Article ID: 130007808597
• DOI: 10.9748/hcs.2020.122
• ISSN: 21871930
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/hcs/2020/30/2020_122/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • Crossref
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed