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Profile: The photographer Shirana Shahbazi, monogatari-e – narrative paintings at the Idemitsu in Tokyo. A look at the Japanese Collection in the Cincinnati Museum of Art. Profile of the Hagi potter Hamanaka Gesson. Hiroshige prints at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Japanese contemporary ceramics on show at the Harn Museum in Florida. The new Okada Museum in Hakone, Japan. The Museum of Ethnography has just reopened in Geneva, we look at their Asian collections.
The Forbidden City in Virginia. Japanese textiles in Paris and the 19th- century photographs of Siam and Angkor by the Scottish photographer John Thomson, currently on show in Bangkok. Indian art in Salem and the photographs of Marc Riboud in New York City. Japanse armour at the Crow Collection in Dallas, Japanese clocks, and Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs in London. Islamic Arts Diary.
THE JAPANESE POTTER Hamanaka Gesson (b.1943, Kishiwada, Osaka), who is based in Hagi, western Honshu, is known as the ‘Master of Hagi pottery’. Hagi pottery have a 500 year-old Korean-inspired tradition which originally sustained the tea ceremony, and were crafted… Continue reading
IN THE CENTURY and a half that has passed since Utagawa Hiroshige’s death, his name has become synonymous with ukiyo-e print-making, to which he devoted his life. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 – a mere decade after Hiroshige’s demise –… Continue reading
THIS EXHIBITION, curated by Tomoko Nagakura, a curator and professor of Japanese art and currently a Research Fellow for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, could not have been possible without the gracious cooperation of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz by… Continue reading
IT HAS BEEN 24 years since the Idemitsu Museum has presented an exhibition on a similar theme, monogatari-e, and for this current show about 30 paintings in various formats have been chosen. 2014 was the commemorative 400th year of the… Continue reading