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Entertainment > Book| Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003 THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
The role of politics and religion in the history of art By RAJU
THAKRAR DISCOVERING THE ARTS OF JAPAN: A historical overview, by
Tsuneko S. Sadao and Stephanie Wada. Kodansha International,
2003, 284 pp., 3,000 yen (cloth). According to this new
publication from Kodansha International, "The insular culture of
Japan can best be understood as a process whereby successive
waves of imported ideas and artifacts were assimilated and
synthesized into a new interpretation." This wonderfully laid
out book by Tsuneko S. Sadao and Stephanie Wada follows these
waves methodically, and in a way that helps the reader work out
for himself how the various art forms of Japan developed.
Starting off with the Jomon Period (circa 10,000-circa 300 B.C.)
and continuing in chronological order, to finish with the Meiji
Era (1868-1912), each time period begin