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*Buddhist sculptures: Traditionally, in the Edo period and earlier, people were generally not concerned with the aesthetic beauty of Buddhist sculpture, but rather with its efficacy. - Tim Screech, Obtaining Images, 119.
*Buddhist sculptures: Traditionally, in the Edo period and earlier, people were generally not concerned with the aesthetic beauty of Buddhist sculpture, but rather with its efficacy. - Tim Screech, Obtaining Images, 119.
*Portraits - were chiefly made "to aid memory or for the ritual purpose of veneration or funeral." The more elite someone was, the more elite someone would need to be to see that person's portrait; "the rule of thumb seems to have been that if you could meet the person, you could view their portrait; if not, not." - Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', 165.
*Meiji slogans: bunmei kaika, fukoku kyôhei, wakon yôsai 和魂洋才, shokusan kôgyô 殖産興業.
*Meiji slogans: bunmei kaika, fukoku kyôhei, wakon yôsai 和魂洋才, shokusan kôgyô 殖産興業.