Press Release 2015/02/24

Screen and Wall Paintings by Eitoku and the Kano School
Part I: March 14 (Saturday) – April 15 (Wednesday), 2015
Part II: April 17 (Friday) – May 27 (Wednesday), 2015
Kankai Pavilion (Traditional East Asian Art)

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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 partitionsof the Shimono-ma (aka: "tiger room") within he Nikko-in guest hall at Mi'idera temple in Otsu, Shiga prefecture.
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 theyappeared.
We hope you will enjoy the charm of these large-format scroll paintings through the messages that they were meant
to convey.
[Featured Works]
Traditional Art: [Part I] 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 ananecdote 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 forsocial regulations, attribute to Fujiwara no Yukiyoshi, hand scroll, Kamakura period and others[Part II] 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, hanging scroll, Momoyama period / Wild horses and horsemen, Kano school, four
hanging scrolls, Momoyama – Edo period / Waka poem "Kokin Waka-shu," first part of "Spring" chapter withpainted ground and butterfly design, Hon'ami Koetsu, hand scroll, Edo period and others
Contemporary Art: Anish Kapoor, Void, 1992 / Yoshihiro Suda, Tulip, 1998 and others

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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
2. 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, hangingscroll, Momoyama period
3. 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
4. Waka poem "Kokin Waka-shu," first part of "Spring" chapter with painted ground and butterfly design, Hon'ami Koetsu, hand scroll, Edo period

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