Abstract: Annotation. Introduction of Western aesthetics in Japan during 1870-1930-ieth years had been an exceedingly complicated process implying not only an acquaintance and understanding of a considerable amount of philosophical research in foreign languages, but also “construction” of scientific terminology. Within 60 years Japanese scholars managed to organize two main centers for aesthetical studies in the Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto, where able students acquired a high-level education, which made it possible to place the implicit aesthetics of traditional Japan into the colorful “mosaic” of the world aesthetics.