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The St. Johns Herald
Saint Johns, Apache County, Arizona
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The National Exposition in Tokyo recently concluded, revealing the decline of traditional Japanese fine arts. Among 1,600 prizes for 8,500 exhibitors, only one was for lacquer, adapted to Western styles, while photographs and modern items prevailed due to market demands for cheap, rapid production.
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The National Exposition at Tokyo which has recently been brought to a close, affords interesting but painful evidence of the change which is passing over the fine arts of Japan. Of the one thousand six hundred diplomas or prizes distributed among the eight thousand five hundred exhibitors, only one was awarded for lacquer, a product in the magnificent manufacture of which Japan has always held the pre-eminence, and even in this case it is for Western adaptation. Photographs, tile-cloths, and alcove ornaments bear away the palm from a native manufacture whose death-knell was sounded when cheapness and rapidity of fabrication became a sine qua non of its appearance in the markets of the world.
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Tokyo, Japan
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Recently
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only one prize awarded for lacquer in western adaptation; photographs, tile-cloths, and alcove ornaments dominate over native manufacture due to market demands for cheapness and rapidity.
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The National Exposition at Tokyo provided evidence of changes in Japanese fine arts, with 1,600 prizes distributed among 8,500 exhibitors. Japan, pre-eminent in lacquer manufacture, received only one award for it, which was for a Western adaptation. Modern items like photographs, tile-cloths, and alcove ornaments surpassed traditional native products, whose decline was hastened by the need for cheap and rapid production to compete in world markets.