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Strength and Beauty:
A Selection of Japanese Decorative Arts: 1300 – 1925
On exhibit 8 March – 5 October 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Japanese Decorative Arts
Traditional aspects of Japanese design, craftsmanship, and motifs are displayed through a sampling of arts, including stoneware ceramics for the tea ceremony; brightly colored porcelains; and medieval sword blades from the 13th –17th centuries. Lacquered wood cosmetic, writing and game boxes, as well as more contemporary forms, reflect Japanese life and culture into the twentieth
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Flower Blossom on the Japanese Sword: The Bizen Ichimonji Tradition
林原美術館
Hayashibara Museum of Art (Japan)
24 February
– 30 March 2008
大倉集古館
Okura Shukokan Museum, Tokyo
6 April - 18 May 2008
徳川美術館
Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya City
24 May - 6 July 2008
Assembled from museum and private collections, 52 exhibits with
seven national treasure swords including the Uesugi-tachi
and Okadagiri.
Norimune, Sukemune, Sukenori, (Kasa) Naomune/Ichi, Muneyoshi,
Shigehisa, Munetada, Nobufusa, Norinari - Norishige, Ietada,
Sukekane
Yoshifusa, Norifusa, Sukezane, Nobukane, Yoshimochi, Suketsuna,
Sukeyoshi, Sukemori, Sukemitsu, and other blades attributed to
Yoshioka-Ichimonji. |
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Samurai
Historisches Museum der Pfalz (Germany)
Domplatz
67346 Speyer
24 February - 5 October 2008
open Tuesday through Sunday 10:00 - 16:00 hours
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Lethal Elegance: The Art of Japanese Samurai Sword Fittings
On exhibit through 30
June 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Japanese Sword Gallery
During the 1880s Japan's greatest metalworkers enjoyed a close
relationship with the MFA's early benefactors, some of whose
gifts to the Museum are shown alongside important loans. These
master craftsmen have recently re-emerged into the limelight
thanks to a revival of interest in the art of the Meiji era
(1868-1912) and the exhibition will demonstrate their brilliant
success in transferring traditional skills from the domestic to
the global marketplace.
In addition to earlier
examples, also included are masterpieces of
miniature metalwork made after 1876. In all the exhibition
presents 150 of the finest examples of tosogu from
the MFA's collection of more than 3,500 pieces. |
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Postponed* The Art of the Samurai
21 October 21, 2008 – 11
January 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor
This will be the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts
of the samurai. Japanese arms and armor will be the principal focus,
bringing together the finest examples of armor, swords and sword
mountings, archery equipment and firearms, equestrian equipment,
banners, surcoats, and related accessories of rank such as fans and
batons. Drawn entirely from public and private collections in Japan,
the majority of objects date from the early medieval Heian period,
beginning in 794, through the early modern Edo period, ending in
1868. The martial skills and daily life of the samurai and their
governing lords, the daimyo, will also be evoked through the
presence of painted scrolls and screens depicting battles and
martial sports, castles, and portraits of individual warriors. The
exhibition will conclude with a related display documenting the
recent restoration in Japan of a selection of arms and armor from
the Metropolitan Museum’s permanent collection—the first ever to
focus on the subject of Japanese arms and armor conservation.
The exhibition is being co-organized by The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan.
*Information
will be posted when available.
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