The Book of Tea
Describe Okakura's education.
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He studied at an English-language university, and was fluent in three languages - Chinese, English, and Japanese. He studied under a Harvard-educated American, Ernest Fenollosa, who was instrumental in halting Westernization in Japan and preserving parts of the old culture. This was necessary, as in the fever to modernize, many Japanese treated heirlooms and traditional art as little more than junk.