from Hara Museum ARC
Screen and Wall Paintings by Eitoku and the Kano School
Part I: March 14 (Saturday) – April 15 (Wednesday), 2015
Kankai Pavilion (Traditional East Asian Art)
This exhibition presents a number of exquisite ink paintings selected from the Rokuro Hara Collection centering on Tiger in a bamboo grove by Eitoku and other artists of the Kano School that once adorned the walls and partitions of the Shimono-ma (aka: “tiger room”) within he Nikko-in guest hall at Mi’idera temple in Otsu, Shiga prefecture.
Tiger in a bamboo grove (part of paintings used for wallpaper and sliding doors at Nikko-in guest hall in Mi’idera temple), Kano Eitoku
Scene based on an anecdote by Tao Yuanming (poet of the Jin dynasty) (part of paintings used for wallpaper and sliding doors at Nikko-in guest hall in Mi’idera temple), Kano School
Paintings such as these functioned not only as a way to separate spaces, but depending on the theme, were designed to impart a certain meaning to those spaces and thus a certain physical experience of the space in which they appeared.
We hope you will enjoy the charm of these large-format scroll paintings through the messages that they were meant to convey.
Featured Works (part I)
Traditional Art: Tiger in a bamboo grove (part of paintings used for wallpaper and sliding doors at Nikko-in guest hall in Mi’idera temple), Kano Eitoku, four hanging scrolls, Momoyama period / Scene based on an anecdote by Tao Yuanming (poet of the Jin dynasty) (part of paintings used for wallpaper and sliding doors at Nikko-in guest hall in Mi’idera temple), Kano School, four hanging scrolls, Momoyama – Edo period / Text for social regulations, attribute to Fujiwara no Yukiyoshi, hand scroll, Kamakura period and others
Contemporary Art: Anish Kapoor, Void, 1992 / Yoshihiro Suda, Tulip, 1998 and others
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Getting There: By train: Take the Joetsu Shinkansen to Takasaki, change to the Joestu Line, and disembark at Shibukawa. From Shibukawa, ARC is 10 minutes away by taxi or 15 minutes by bus (take the Ikaho Onsen bus to ″Green Bokujo Mae″). By car: 8 kilometers (about 15 minutes) from the Kan-etsu Expressway Shibukawa Ikaho Interchange (in the direction of Ikaho Onsen).