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Description: Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano
It has been a great pleasure for the Tokyo National Museum to offer its assistance in organizing Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
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Statement from the Executive Director of the Tokyo National Museum
It has been a great pleasure for the Tokyo National Museum to offer its assistance in organizing Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States, with a history of nearly one hundred and forty years. This museum owns numerous Japanese masterpieces and has shared the beauty of Japanese art with a wide audience through impressive exhibitions such as The Arts of Hon’ami Kōetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master (2000) and Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush (2007).
The present exhibition covers more than four hundred years of art produced by the Kano house, from its reign as a major school of painting from the Muromachi (1392–1573) to the late Edo period (1615–1868), and extending to the artists Kano Hōgai and Hashimoto Gahō, who exerted a tremendous influence on the painting of modern Japan. Many superb works from Japanese museums, temples, and private collections have crossed the sea for this occasion. These include Kano Eitoku’s Chinese Lions from the Museum of the Imperial Collections, Tokyo, and Kano Sanraku’s Rivalry of the Carriages, which is designated an Important Cultural Property, from the Tokyo National Museum. Others have been carefully selected from among the finest examples in American collections.
The Kano school is a unique school of painting even when viewed from a worldwide perspective, and Ink and Gold presents an unparalleled opportunity to explore its artistic achievements in one sweeping exhibition. Even in Japan, so many works of such high quality have never been gathered together under one roof. Moreover, this exhibition provides an ideal occasion for the public to become more familiar with Japanese art in general, and we hope that it will deepen cultural exchange between the United States and Japan.
We express our sincere gratitude to the individuals at the Philadelphia Museum of Art whose efforts brought this exhibition to fruition, to the lenders who so generously provided their precious works of art, and to all others who offered their valuable assistance.
MASAMI ZENIYA
Executive Director
Tokyo National Museum
Statement from the Executive Director of the Tokyo National Museum
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