JAPANESE TRENDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 16

JAPANESE TRENDS

ART AND FASHION

The wife oiMie expert adviser attached to the Japanese Embassy in Shanghai" Mrs. K. Inui, has strong v\ewsf about the wholesale adoption of Western culture by the Japanese "I think it is very deplorable, she told a "Sydney Morning Herald representative; "for there'is no discrimination used in choosing between the good andV bad, with U tha 55t0 £tt»w faithfully *e Japanese art student is copying the Parisian lend. Nudes and oil paintings have never been a part of Japanese art, and the work of the young artists does not reflect the spirit of Japan as the old prints did. Our artists have always excelled in the superb handling or SSours, and I think it is a great pity that our young artists are not developing through this medium. "On the other hand, there are some really outstanding Japanese composers who have evolved good modern music, S the plaintive Oriental foreign rhythm, and with the mtroduc tion of foreign instruments. Mrs. Inui is now engaged in writing a novel of international interest with Japanese characters. She thought i very interesting in relation to gress of women in Japan that there were.more magazines published in Japan than in any other country m thTworld. There were also many deifghtTul magazines published for children in Japan.