Metals and metal-working in old Japan . of any great art-work, and I have been unable to find any examples of the artof the bronze-founder during the entire period, excepting twoinsignificant boxes for holding seals (dated respectively 998 and1098 ) and nine distinct coinages of bronze money from810 to 958 After this last date even the coinage of bronzemoney appears to cease, and is not resumed until 1457 ,five hundred years afterwards. During the last years of the twelfth century, when peacewas established throughout tlie country by the victories ofYoritomo, there are, as I have
Metals and metal-working in old Japan . of any great art-work, and I have been unable to find any examples of the artof the bronze-founder during the entire period, excepting twoinsignificant boxes for holding seals (dated respectively 998 and1098 ) and nine distinct coinages of bronze money from810 to 958 After this last date even the coinage of bronzemoney appears to cease, and is not resumed until 1457 ,five hundred years afterwards. During the last years of the twelfth century, when peacewas established throughout tlie country by the victories ofYoritomo, there are, as I have already stated, under Copper the first signs of a revival of the old art of the Nara 1190 up to the date of his death (1198 ), thisremarkable warrior devoted his energies to the cultivation andadvancement of the arts of peace. Stimulated by his exampleand enthusiasm the artistic spirit of the people was arousedfrom its dormant condition, and for nearly a hundred yearswe have a notable period of renaissance in o JCl F^
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