What did the two men do once they parted ways?

Fenollosa left to curate the Boston Museum. In 1898, Okakura resigned his official post in a state institution to found the Japanese Art Institution, dedicating to preserving the Asiatic way of life. Unfortunately, the state (which Okakura fought often in regards to modernization) would not fund Okakura's school. Okakura went to America with many paintings to sell to Americans. Like Fenollosa, he arrived in Boston. He stayed in America, giving lectures and eventually curating the very museum Fenollosa did after the latter resigned (unrelated to Okakura). Okakura worked to make the Boston Museum a world-famous repository of Asian art. Beyond curating, he wrote several books, lectured extensively, and submitted articles to academic and art journals. He died in 1913 after returning to Tokyo and contracting influenza.