The Items Representing the Artistic and Aesthetic Tastes of the Court

question 29

Multiple Choice

The items representing the artistic and aesthetic tastes of the court and the samurai were:

• A) Too costly to have much influence on non-elites.
• B) Too foreign and strange to the vast majority of the culturally sensitive middle classes.
• C) Widely available to anyone who had the money and interest to afford them.
• D) Widely rejected because of their overt militarism.

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