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The Fate of American Artists Last spring, in March, a reporter from Time magazine responsible for its art column came to visit me at my personal exhibition (at the Contemporaries Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York) for an interview.At the end of the long chat, I confessed that in short, I am a man who has been agonizing between the Orient and the Occident for twenty years.One week later, I was embarrassed to see these words appear verbatim in the finished article and distributed all over America and the world.On reflection, though, this history of agony between the Orient and the Occident seemed to begin to stretch far longer than twenty years, now that I am forty-eight.One Sunday, then a pimply-faced boy, I grabbed my oil paint to go sketching in Nara Park.The next Sunday, I went out without carrying anything to sit in front of the principal Buddha image of the Yakushi-ji temple.I visited it so many times that the guard, a middle-aged man, started recognizing this peculiar middle school pupil.It was about the same time, I think, that my painting master Koide Narashige teased me, a precocious brat in a high schoolissued cap with a white line.Upon seeing my oil painting copy of a Hiroshige woodcut, he suggested the somewhat grandiose sobriquet Ichiritsusai Saburo for me to assume.Around Showa 5 or 6, the late Saburi Makoto, who looked after me in Paris, remarked that I was walking around with "Japan" written all over my face, which caught me completely unawares. 1After my return, I spent three years from Showa 7 to 9 copying Sesshu's "Huike Offering His Arm to Bodhidharma" in oil paint and in whole spectrum of colors.Even today I look back on this episode as a bit over-the-top.It was around the time when I sent my "Trajectory of a Butterfly" to the first Jiyu Bijutsu…
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(2019). 20. The Fate of American Artists, 1955. University of California Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520970922-026
DOI: 10.1515/9780520970922-026
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