Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
Kakuso Okakura died in Japan September 2, 1913. He was an “Admirable Crichton” in his way, a man of vast learning, which covered both sides of the world. He was graduated from the Tokio University in 1880 with honors in philosophy and English literature, to which he might have added honors in Oriental philosophy and literature had not the drift of education in Japan at that time been all in the direction of the Occident. He always kept in close touch with the Occidental world, and was for ten years the head of the Department of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
1 “Kai” means (1) sacrament, (2) commandment.
2 “Bonno” means a vice, or bad habit. “Eighty-four thousand” is used to mean ‘a great number,’ ‘thousands.’