Gazing into the Past: The Hikkoen Album Part 1 by James Cahill 5A
Channel: Randy Chatterjee
Date: 2015-06-09

Here is the title of this lecture, written in Chinese characters, three of them, Chinese bi geng yuan, Japanese Hikkôen, meaning. Brush-plowed-Garden. Or, the Garden Plowed by the Brush. This is a charming poetic conceit, the idea that the brush can plow a garden so that lots of lovely paintings spring up; it's the poetic name of a famous album, now in Tokyo National Museum, made up of sixty small ptgs attributed to many artists & representing many subjects. Two of my lectures, this and another (GIP 5B), will be devoted to this album and the paintings in it, thirty leaves considered in each of the lectures.
                                             ----- James Cahill