 There he used Episcopalian terms, such as bishop, to describe senior monks, and dismissed simpler forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Shin, referring to the latter as a "very big and popular and easy-going sect...the Salvation Army of Buddhism" 

In traveling through Japan and forming their collections, Bigelow and his Boston colleagues were helped by one of Fenollosa's students, Okakura Kakuzō.Inspired by these Westerners' admiration for the traditions of the Japanese aristocracy, Okakura, with Bigelow's financial backing, founded an art school, the "Nihon Bijutsuin" (Japan Fine Arts Academy), to preserve and promote traditional forms of Japanese art.When in 1898 Okakura was ousted by faculty and students at the school who objected to his rigid focus on traditional art, Bigelow hired him to oversee the Japanese art collections at the Museum of Fine Arts.