This book was written during the Meiji Period and as such does not have a modern perspective. It is also quite dense and meandering. However, it does provide an overview of art through out the history of Japan. Okakura opens the book with "Asia is one" and argues that all of Asia is interconnected.

This book follows the evolution of art through many stages, from the earliest recorded times to modern ones. The ideals of the East shows us just what makes the Japanese art so distinctive and unique.

This book was very fun for me; despite needing to find the exact edition from 1970. Other than that roadblock, I learned a lot, and that’s great for a history nerd as myself.

Sinceramente, no me ha gustado nada, pero para se honestos es enteramente por mi culpa y no por el autor, que sin lugar a duda fue una eminencia en su ámbito (y como curiosidad, escribió el libro en inglés pese a ser un nativo japonés).

El problema es que este pequeño ensayo es más bien filosófico,

Skimmed, so I may be somewhat off, but this seemed like bombastic 19th century style nationalism to me. I found it fairly unpleasant and vaguely (and sometimes not so vaguely) racist. I think it’d be a better idea to find a more modern book covering these topics. Came off as excessively abstract and

This book is filled with useful information, but it is a very dry read. I only recently discovered my passion for reading so maybe it's inexperience, but I found it really hard to keep up with Mr. Okakura's writing style, getting lost in all his rhetoric. I think of 'Ideals of the East' more as refe