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NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS

The Frontispiece is reproduced from a preliminary sketch for a portrait by Shimomura Kanzan, one of Okakura's outstanding pupils, and is used here by the kind permission of the Geijutsu University and Mr. Hidetoki Shimomura, Kanzan's grandson. The sketch, in Japanese ink and traces of water colors on paper, mounted as a hanging scroll, was formerly in the possession of Mr. Langdon Warner, of Harvard University, who returned it to Japan after the finished portrait was destroyed in the Great Earthquake of 1923. The rather conspicuous errors in draftsmanship, particularly noticeable in the hand holding the cigarette, were corrected in the final painting, which was one of Kanzan's masterpieces.

The illustrations at the head of each chapter are taken from the ink drawings of Sesshu (1420-1506), the greatest of all Japanese painters in the same Zen tradition which inspired the tea ceremony.