Fusuma Paintings in the Shogun’s Residence: Muromachi Splendor Seen Through Folding Screens (Thursday, November 3 – Sunday, December 4, 2022)
- Fusuma Paintings in the Shoguns' Residence: Muromachi Splendor Seen Through Folding Screens (cont'd)
- This gallery features Japansese famouse places paintings and bird-and-flower paintings.
- Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
By Kanō Shōei - Six panel folding screen; ink and color on gold foiled paper
- Japan Muromachi period, 16th century
Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum
- The Allure of Buddhist Art: Devas
- The Buddhist art works collected by Nezu Kaichirō, Sr. (1860–1940) form one of the pillars of the Nezu Museum collection. Examples of Gandharan and Chinese stone sculpture from his collection appear in the Entrance Hall. Gallery 3 features sculptures of three devas including Taishaku-ten (Śakra) and Bishamon-ten (Vaiśravaṇa).
- Standing Zōchō-ten (Virūdhaka)
- Polychrome on wood
- Japan Heian period, 12th century
Nezu Museum
- Ancient Chinese Bronzes
- The Nezu Museum collection of bronzes is world-renowned, and particularly strong in the area of late Shang (17th to 11th centuries BC) dynasty vessels, the pinnacle production period of this medium.
- Double-Ram Zun
- Bronze
- China; probably Hunan province, 13-11th centuries B.C.
Nezu Museum
- Chōshitsu: Chinese Carved Lacquer
- Chōshitsu, carved lacquer, is created by building up layers of lacquer and then engraving a design in them. Chinese carved lacquer wares were highly regarded in Japan. Here we introduce several such works that have been carefully handed down in Japan.
- Box with Peony Design
- Carved lacquer on wood
- China Ming dynasty, Yongle era (1403-24)
Nezu Museum
- The Tea New Year: Breaking the Seat of the New Tea
- In the world of tea, November is the month for breaking the seal on the tea leaf storage jar and partaking of the year’s new tea. We have prepared an assemblage of about twenty tea utensils suitable for the seal-breaking tea gathering, an occasion known as the Tea New Year.
- Tea Leaf Storage Jar, Named Shikoku-zaru
- Fujian ware group
- China Yuan dynasty, 14th century
Nezu Museum
- Decorated Clock
- This splendid Qing dynasty clock, a favorite of the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), is not to be missed.
- Clock Decorated with a Bird on a Cup
- England, 18th century
Nezu Museum