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Henry Adams was one of a handful of prominent New Englanders who visited Japan during the [[Meiji period]], and played a key role in introducing Japanese art to New England.
He traveled to Japan along with [[John LaFarge]] in [[1886]].
Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson and wounded by his wife’s suicide, Adams also traveled to the South Pacific, arriving in Tahiti in [[1891]]. He is said to have been more bored than enchanted, but one day met an old woman at the foot of a stone bridge, made of stones from the ''marae'' of Mahaiatea, which had been built by Queen Purea for her son in 1767-1768. The old woman, Ariii Taimai of the Teva clan, was a great-grand-niece of Amo & Purea, king & queen of the island in the 1760s.<ref>Dening, Greg. “Possessing Tahiti.” ''Archaeology in Oceania'' 21, no. 1 (April 1, 1986): 103–18.</ref>
A bronze sculpture designed by Augustus St. Gaudens for the mausoleum of Adams' wife, inspired by a [[Kano Motonobu|Kanô Motonobu]] painting of White-Robed [[Kannon]] in the collection of the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], continues to stand today in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC.<ref>A replica of the statue can also be found at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/7743482208/in/dateposted-public/]. The Kanô painting ([http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/white-robed-bodhisattva-of-compassion-24752]), previously in the collection of the [[Hachisuka clan]], was purchased in Japan by [[Ernest Fenollosa]], and then in [[1886]] was sold by Fenollosa to [[Charles Goddard Weld]]; presumably it was while Weld held it that Adams and St. Gaudens would have seen it.</ref>
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