Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Forewords. Introduction. 'Japanism' and the Boston orientalists. Japanese homes: the Japanese house dissected. The Ho-o-den: the temple and the villa married in south Chicago. Fenollosa and the 'organic' nature of Japanese art. Composition: the picture, the plan, and the pattern, as aesthetic line-ideas. The woodblock print and the geometric abstraction of natural, man-made and social forms. Okakura and the social and aesthetic 'Ideals of the East'. Japan itself: giving and receiving in 'Yedo'. Japan as inspiration: analogies with Japanese built-forms. Japan as confirmation: the universal manifested in the particular. Appendices: summary of events; biographical sketches; Kakuzo Okakura's catalogue of the Ho-o-den; Ernest Fenollosa's essay on 'The Nature of Fine Art'; Frederick Gookin's reviews of Kakuzo Okakura's books; glossary. Bibliography. Illustration acknowledgements. Index.

Reviews

'This is an outstanding addition to the Wright literature. It is well illustrated throughout, with a wealth of new Japanese material as well as the author's own analytical diagrams, and comprehensively referenced. It deserves to be very widely read, not only by those interested in Wright, but as a study of the creative process and the fruitful interaction of two great cultures.' - The Architects' Journal