It features approximately 80 masterworks ranging in date from the early- 12th to the mid-20th century, and encompasses paintings in both scroll and screen formats, men’s and women’s garments, sacred and secular calligraphy, tea ceramics and lacquers from around 1600, as well as earlier red-lacquered vessels for use in Zen temples.
Arts of Japan will give visitors the chance to experience aspects of classic Japanese art not usually accessible to American museum goers. It serves as a wonderful complement to Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690-1850.
A catalogue published by the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz/Museum of East Asian Art, National Museums in Berlin, accompanies this exhibition.
The picture shows five serving dishes with persimmon design, Momoyama-Edo period, 1600-1620s, Unknown.
The exhibition runs from September 22, 2007 to January 13, 2008. -- www.mfa.org
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