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Tachiki, Satoko. "Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Boston Brahmins," University of Michigan, January 1986. Advisor: David Huntington (11, 23)
This dissertation is a biographical account of Kakuzo Okakuro (1862-1913), a Japanese art and cultural critic who later served as an advisor and a curator of the Department of Japanese and Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1903 to 1913. Its main purpose is to clarify Okakura’s aesthetic and cultural affinities with those of the Boston Brahmins. Okakura’s aesthetic and cultural affinities with those of the Boston Brahmins. Okakura’s aesthetic idealism, based on Zen and Taoist philosophy, was particularly attractive to the Boston Brahmins. The interest in Japanese culture within the Boston community at the turn of the century is highlighted.
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