During “The Irises Screens, National Treasure: Japanese Art and Design" (Saturday, April 13 – Sunday, May 12)
- “The Irises Screens, National Treasure: Japanese Art and Design" (cont'd)
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In Gallery 2, titled "Painting in the Crafts, the Crafts in Painting", please enjoy the design interactions
that developed among painting and maki-e, ceramics and textiles.
- Writing Box, Known as Kasugayama
- Japan Muromachi period, 15th century
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- The Allure of Buddhist Art:
Small Gilded Buddhist Statues and Buddhist Implements from Japan
- 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 presents small gilded Buddhist statues and copper Buddhist implements with Buddhist images rendered on them.
- Standing Kannon-bosatsu(Avalokiteśvara)
- Japan Nara period, 8th century
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- 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.
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- Greetings from the Other Side of the World! The Nezu Museum’s Andean Textiles
- These Andean textiles are an unusual part of the Nezu Museum’s textile collection. Please enjoy exploring these colorful and unique works, which are from a broad timespan, from before the common era to the Inca Empire, which collapsed in the sixteenth century.
- Fabric Fragment with Butterfly Design
- Peru Paracas, ca. 6th-1st centuries BC
- Tea Gathering as the Brazier Season Begins
- Starting in early May, the brazier is used in the tea room for the first time in the year. As the full heat of summer approaches, the selection of a group of cooling, refreshing tea implements begins.
- Vase with Carp-Shaped Handles
- Jingdezhen ware, ko-sometsuke type
- China Ming dynasty, 17th centur
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- 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
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