Press Release2015/10/27

Picturing Landscapes
October 17 (Saturday) – November 25 (Wednesday), 2015
Kankai Pavilion at Hara Museum ARC

1.Field with the moon, the subject called “Musashino” in Japanese (part), Edoperiod

In olden times, Japanese landscapes often drew upon Chinese subject matter, but the tradition of depicting Japaneselandscapes is also an ancient one. The subject of such landscapes were often famous places, so-called utamakura, which
served as rhetorical devices in poems for evoking certain images. The latter half of the Edo period saw an increase ininterest in actual landscapes and their faithful depiction in paintings. Influenced by cultural developments in China and theWest, real places became the basis for landscape painting.
This exhibition places a spotlight on traditional paintings of famous places and works produced during the Edo-period thatincorporate new ways of looking, techniques and materials. Placed in juxtaposition with selected works of contemporaryart, we invite you to enjoy the expansive range of expression within the art of landscape painting.
[Featured Works]
Traditional art: Landscape of Yodo
River, Maruyama Okyo, hand scroll,
Edo period / Landscape of Mt. Fuji,Shiba Ko'kan, hanging scroll, Edo
period / Field with the moon, thesubject called “Musashino” inJapanese, eight-fold screen, Edo
period / Landscape of four seasons,XuLin, four hanging scrolls, Ming
dynasty and others
Contemporary art: Kumi Sugai,Moon, 1957 / Hiroshi Sugimoto,Seascape, 1990-91 / Noe Aoki,
Tateyama, 2007 and others

2.Drifting boat with man, from Landscape offour seasons, XuLin, Ming dynasty

3.Landscape of Mt. Fuji (part), Shiba Ko'kan,
Edo period

New Year Tidings
November 27 (Friday), 2015 – January 11 (Monday, national holiday), 2016
Kankai Pavilion at Hara Museum ARC
As another year wanes and a new year approaches, the Kankai Pavilion once again becomes a place of auspicious
symbolism. Since olden days, the Japanese have celebrated the transition between seasons, such as Boy's Day and New
Year's Day, by decorating their homes with auspicious symbols of good luck and fortune. These include the zodiac animals,a crane in a pine tree and the rising sun. In this exhibition, these symbols, as well a traditional customs and aesthetics, areon view in hanging scrolls and standing screens juxtaposed with selections of contemporary art.
[Featured Works]
Traditional art: Landscape of snowy mountains, part of paintings used for wallpaper and sliding doors at Nikko-in
Mi'idera temple, Kano school, four hanging scrolls, Momoyama-Edo period / Landscape of Yodo River, Maruyama Okyo,
hand scroll, Edo period / A hundred cranes, Mori Tetsuzan, pair of six-fold screens, Edo period / Pair of Satsuma waresake bottles with their portable case, Maki-e on lacquer, Edo period / Ruyi (Buddhist ritual implement) engraved withfigures, jade, Qing dynasty and others
Contemporary art: Piotr Kowalski, Manipulator No.4, 1969 / Toshimitsu Imai, Sasameyuki, 1984 / Hiroe Saeki, Untitled,2009 and others

4.Landscape of Yodo River, Maruyama Okyo , Edo period

5.Landscape of snowy mountains, part of paintings used
for wallpaper and sliding doors at Nikko-in Mi’idera
temple, Kano school, Momoyama-Edo period

Hara Museum ARC
Address: 2855-1, Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
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Hours: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (last entry at 4:00 pm)
Closed: Closed: Thursdays, December 7–11, December 14-18 and January 1 *Closed temporarily in the event of severe
weather.
Admission: General (over 12) 1,100 yen, Students 700 yen (high school and university) or 500yen (elementary and juniorhigh), Free for Hara Museum members; 10% discount for a group of 20 or more; Combination ticket for Hara Museum
ARC and Ikaho Green Bokujo (except during Golden Week): General 1,800 yen; Students 1,500 yen (high school anduniversity) or 1,400 yen (junior high), 800 yen (elementary) *Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Getting There: By train: Take the Joetsu Shinkansen to Takasaki, change to the Joestu Line, and disembark at Shibukawa.
From Shibukawa, ARC is 10 minutes away by taxi or 15 minutes by bus (take the Ikaho Onsen bus to ″Green BokujoMae″). By car: 8 kilometers (about 15 minutes) from the Kan-etsu Expressway Shibukawa Ikaho Interchange (in thedirection of Ikaho Onsen).
※ Visitors can also enjoy the exhibition concurrently on view in the contemporary art galleries, Time Visualized Selections from the Hara Museum Collection.
For publicity material, please contact: Hara Museum ARC 2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
Tel: 0279-24-6585 Fax: 0279-24-0449 E-mail: press@haramuseum.or.jp