“150 Years of Tansu" Exhibition
The Nippon Gallery
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The first diplomatic delegation of Japanese to arrive in New York comprised eighty Samurai diplomats and created one of the biggest spectacles of the time, on June 16, 1860. One hundred fifty years later The NIPPON CLUB, the West 57th Street social and cultural club established in 1905 “to tighten the unity of the Japanese community and to develop a better relationship with the American People” is planning a number of events to commemorate this historic development. Co-curators Dane Owen and David Jackson host a show of 20 important examples of Japanese TANSU chests that “define Japan’s cabinetry heritage, and reflect on 150 years of Japan’s economic expansion and influence.”
David Jackson says, “This exhibit shows how Tansu evolved along with the social, technological and political changes over the past 150 years, and how Tansu played a subtle inspirational role in design almost from the time the first chests appeared in America.”
[Image: "SHIBUI showing detail from lock plates from clothing chest, Ogi Sado Island, Niigata" (Meiji period ca. 1868-1912) Lacquered Keyaki wood with hand forged iron]
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from July 13, 2010 to August 04, 2010