Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco

Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco (fĕnəlō`sə), 1853–1908, American Orientalist, educator, and poet, b. Salem, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1874. A pioneer in the study of Asian art, he lived much of his life in Japan. Besides teaching at Tokyo Univ., the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts, and the Imperial Normal School, he was manager of the fine arts department of the Imperial Museum in Tokyo. His works include East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems (1893); Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (2d ed. 1912), compiled by his widow, Mary McNeil Fenollosa; and two works on Japanese drama (ed. by Ezra Pound, 1916).

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Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco (1853–1908) orientalist, art historian; born in Salem, Mass. He lived for 14 years in Tokyo (1876–90), teaching political economy and philosophy and studying Japanese culture (taking the Buddhist name Tei-Shin and the Japanese name Kano Yeitan Masanobu). On his return he became America's leading orientalist as oriental art curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1890–97). After another stay in Tokyo as professor of English (1897–1900), he spent his last years writing and lecturing. His major work was Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (2 vols. 1911). His literary executor, Ezra Pound, edited a number of his works posthumously.