..., Japanese poetic trope, shrine treasure, and tourist draw. © 2021 Asia Society 2021 Onoe Shrine Korean bells Japanese bells Buddhist bells bonshō Takasago pine Japanese pilgrimage souvenirs cultural biography A surprising subject found in Japanese woodblock prints from the eighteenth...

... Asian, Himalayan and Islamic Art Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art Tao Wang, Executive Director of Initiatives in Asia; Pritzker Chair of Asian Art & Curator of Chinese Art 1. Goddess Hariti Seated Holding a Child , Pakistan, Ancient Gandhara...

... post–World War II career, Rosenfield rebuilt the discipline from the ground up. In America, and at Harvard in particular, Japanese art had no leading scholar to revive a field that had lain dormant during the Pacific War (1941–45). Japanese art had become nearly invisible. Museums in America had...

.... 216 ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Janice Katz, PhD, Associate Curator of Japanese Art 1. Kokiyomizu Hexagonal Bowl, Japan, Edo period (1615– 1868). Stoneware...

.... Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.366. Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial and Asian Art Council Acquisition funds. Kawase Shinobu (Japanese, b. 1950), Bowl with Celadon Glaze Aurora (Seiji obachi fureiko), 2008. Porcelaneous stoneware, 12.2 × 44.5 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.341. Gift...

... as Hanagumo kaneiru zuki (Month of the Blossom Cloud and Temple Bell), and the play from which it was taken, Uwanari 嫐 Jealousy is another of the eighteen Kabuki classics of the Ichikawa family, which was revived the same year at the Ichimura 市村 Theater. Danju¯ ro¯ VIII is depicted within an upper...

...Ignacio Adriasola Abstract This essay addresses three key moments in the history of Japan's representation at the Venice Biennale: the introduction of “Japanese art” in the early stages of the exposition's development, in the late nineteenth century; Japan's official participation in the postwar...

...Figure 17. Hon'ami Kōetsu (Japanese, 1558–1637), calligraphic inscription of a poem by Kamo no Chōmei (ca. 1155–1216); shikishi painting attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese, fl. ca. 1600), dated 1606. Ink, gold, and silver on paper, 20.2 × 17.8  cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...

...Bert Winther-Tamaki Abstract The Japanese movement of printmaking known as Sōsaku Hanga (“Creative Prints”) received a tremendous boost after World War II from the patronage of collectors associated with the US military. One appeal of Sōsaku prints by Munakata Shikō, Saitō Kiyoshi, Azechi Umetarō...

... James C.Y. Watt, Brooke Russell Astor Chairman, Chinese Decorative Arts and Textiles Barbara B. Ford, Curator, Japanese Art Maxwell K. Hearn, Curator, Chinese Paintings...

... Previous Studies on Yakushi Icons Classified as Shichibutsu Yakushi Buddha has thirty-two remarkable attributes on his Abody, marks of his transcendent qualities. Many As used by ancient and medieval Japanese Buddhists scriptures state...

... of Buddhism, the Japanese government legally separated a cave shrine housing a Dragon King from the nearby monastery of Murō-ji. The nineteenth-century officials apparently did not recognize the cave shrine as being intrinsically linked to the monastery or its practices, even though there are clear records...

...Yurika Wakamatsu Abstract Beauty by Plum and Window , a hanging scroll produced in 1907 by the Japanese artist Okuhara Seiko, calls into question fundamental presumptions about literati art, a mode of art-making often seen as a means of self-representation. Instead of creating a singular subject...

... and belonged within a zoological garden—the former a space of everyday life, the latter a scientific arena of ‘‘facts’’ about the natural world culled and categorized at that time mainly by Europeans, Japanese, and North Americans. A number of scholars have attended to questions about Liu’s production...

... Art Museum Denver, Colorado Ronald Y. Otsuka, Curator, Asian Art 12. Bell. Cambodia or Thailand. 1st–3rd c. Bronze; 12.7 Â 12.7 cm. Denver Art Museum, 2007.152. Gift of Mrs. John B. Bunker. 13. Shiva Triad. Cambodia...

... may be the portrait of Mao on the Clouds) at the other. In the center of the island is the archway, an early version of Mao’s standard portrait, Temple of Everlasting Peace with a yellow glazed tile which the Communist state issued in order to control roof, flanked by drum and bell towers. Behind...

... of Korea. Island. In his collected writings, a sarcastic and self- The Qing Chinese have always purchased many of his works, deprecating remark by Kim indicates that he regarded the And now the Japanese have also begun to collect his work. sale of his work in the marketplace as unseemly. The Thus...

..., and Rogers, Fletcher, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, 2006. 176 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr. Felice Fischer, The Luthor W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Curator of East Asian Art Keiko Mori (b. 1939...

...) as an epitome of early Japanese artistic skills and expressive- ness—a sentiment that is widely shared even today.5 The clay figurines have been actively researched...