FENOLLOSA, Ernest
(1853–1908)
FENOLLOSA, Ernest (18 February 1853–21 September 1908). An American writer and scholar, he arrived in Japan in 1879 to teach at the Imperial University in Tokyo, perhaps at the apex of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration. Becoming an admirer of Japanese art, he persuaded Japanese intellectuals not to neglect their own heritage, and so contributed to the development of the New Nihonga movement in Japanese painting in the 1890s. Returning to America in 1890, Fenollosa helped…