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...part of Japanese architectural thought: they occupy a shadow line between architecture and decoration. These delicate panels of rice paper stretched on lacquered frames, held together by paper or leather hinges, were the remote ancestors of today's plebeian room dividers and office partitions. Their name, byōbu, means "protection from wind." From the 7th century, when the first byōbu were introduced from China, the art of screen painting absorbed the best talents in Japan. Perhaps because, being in everyday domestic use, they were more liable to damage than scrolls, there are comparatively few fine examples...
...16th century, screen painting had become as central to the visual culture of traditional Japan as fresco painting was to Italians. The very size of byōbu-which run to a width of twelve feet and more-was an exacting test of the painter's virtuosity in handling watercolor or sumi ink across large areas; it made the paintings into a kind of environment conducive to meditation and withdrawal. Because they were made for domestic use, the imagery of byōbu is generally secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense...
What can be done? Plans for a new athletic complex are ready but are being held up by this dubious list of priorities. Faced with relatively the same dilemma BU's students circulated a petition whose signees agreed, if the building was begun immediately, to pay an extra $25 each year they attended in a program spanning ten years. An extra $25 added on to our tuitions would be but a drop in the ocean when compared with the exorbitance...
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