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| | Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | In the early seventeenth century, Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614), a main line descendent of the most powerful of these families, the Fujiwara, and one of the most influential members of the court, contributed to Japanese art history by re-evaluating the art of his ancestors and establishing fresh approaches to long-established themes. |
 | | If we look at the Konoe family, for instance, although there were certainly peaks and nadirs in their level of influence, it remained culturally and, in many respects politically, active. |
 | | Nobutada, as a high-ranking member of the aristocracy and ancestor to members of the still politically active Konoe family, was not someone to be treated lightly. |
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