Symposium "Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu"
Japan Society Gallery
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Japan Society Gallery, with the support of the Japanese Art Society of America, convenes a group of distinguished speakers, moderated by curator Matthew McKelway, to discuss the beauty of Japanese nature as depicted by Hōitsu, featuring Tadashi Kobayashi, former Professor of Art History at Gakushūin University, Tokyo; and Satoko Tamamushi, Professor of Art History at Tokyo’s Musashino University of Fine Arts and a leading authority on the art of Hōitsu. Haruo Shirane, Columbia University’s Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and author of Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts serves as discussant.
[Image: Sakai Hōitsu "The Poet Hitomaro" (first decade of the 19th century) hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk 20 1/8 × 44 1/8 in. Berkeley Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Eugene C. Gaenslen, Jr., 1977.18.6.]
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September 29, 2012 from 13:00 to 16:00