@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006271,
 author = {鈴木, 廣之 and Suzuki, Hiroyuki},
 issue = {379},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In 1919 Koji Junrei [A pilgrimage to old temples] by the philosopher Watsuji Tetsurô (1889-1960) was published by Iwanami Shoten. At the time Watsuji was 30 years old. Some 40 years after the book was published, Yashiro Yukio (1890-1975), an art historian and contemporary of Watsuji's, reminisced in his article “Nihon Bijutsu no saikentô [Reconsideration of Japanese art] in Geijutsu Shinchô 913, March 1958 about how Watatsuji's work had been highly praised when it was published. He said that influence from Watsuji's book led many of the intelligentsia of the period to begin to appreciate ancient Buddhist sculptures with an “eye honed by western art” or “modern man's rich human sensibility”.
     Watsuji and his friends made a pilgrimage through the old temples Nara in May of 1918. At the beginning of the 20th century, Nara was a fascinating travel destination for intelligentsia and artists. In the 1870s the Meiji government began surveys of the treasures held by old temples, and they were aware that Nara was a treasure chest of antique arts. Beginning in the latter half of the 1880s, the Meiji government provided financial assistance to important old temples, and the presence of Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913) and Ernest F. Fenollosa (1853-1908) on the survey team of 1888 resulted in the dubbing of Nara as Asia's Greece (with Kyoto as Asia's Rome). The 1895 opening of the
Imperial Museum in Nara followed the opening of those in Tokyo and Kyoto. Thus Nara was geopolitically consecrated as the Japanese's empire's oldest capital and as a treasure house of ancient arts.
     The approbation, and consequent popularity, of Watsuji's book reflected the interest of the Taishô intelligentsia in the latter 1910s and 1920s in “bunka” which was created as the translation of the German term “kultur.” In his book of 1919, Watsuji successfully testifies that the discussion of ancient arts, including Buddhist sculpture, can clarify the special characteristics of Japanese culture. Watsuji's thoughts were further developed in a comparative cultures discussion in Fûdo: Ningen gakuteki kôsatsu [Climate and Culture: A philosophical study] published in 1935. Then Yashiro Yukio's Nihon bijutsu no tokushitsu The Characteristics of Japanese Art] was published in 1938, in which Yashiro suggests from his art historian stance that the discussion of the characteristics of Japan's ancient arts can apparently equate with that of Japanese culture. Both Watsuji and Yashiro link heterogeneous, hybrid arts with cultural concepts, and reveal themselves as part of the movement to revive cultural values as a powerful tool for the support of the nation-state.},
 pages = {1--19},
 title = {和辻哲郎『古寺巡礼』―偏在する「美」―},
 year = {2003}
}