AUTUMN
The late colors of autumn Mid November to the end of December is the time when the maple leaves turn brilliant in our tea garden, which is increasingly discovered as a hidden spot to catch the autumn colors. The tea garden welcomes you with autumn plants such as pampas grass, gentians, toad lilies and clover. […]
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The quiet of summer – far from the bustling of city Huge columns of white clouds gathering over the azure sea around Hatsushima and Izu-Oshima are a sure sign of the onset of summer. This is a time to enjoy the magnificent panoramas produced by Mother Nature. The paths leading to the tea garden are […]
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Spring’s abundant flowers Every year around the beginning of April, the someiyoshino cherries of Moore Square come into flower and you can enjoy the exquisite view of Sagami Bay above the cherry blossom in full bloom. (above a sea of flowering cherry blossom). The ‘shidarezakura’ weeping cherry trees on the green lawn of the museum […]
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May 18, 1931 01 AMEHARETE TSUYUMOSHITODONO TAKAMURANO SHITAKAGEAOKU KOKENOHANASAKU The rains clears, In the shadow of The dripping wet Bamboo trees appear Color on the moss. 02 AOAOSHI BASYONOHIROHANI AOGAERU SAYURUGIMOSEDE AMENINIREORI On the fresh Wide leaves of the Banana tree, the Green frog remains Steady in the rain. 03 SAMIDARENO HARURUTOMIREBA OTIKATANI KUMONOMUNENAMI USURANIJIMIYU As I […]
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Nabeshima ware Seventeenth century, Edo Period Diameter, 31.5 cm. Nabeshima ware, unmatched in Japan for its delicacy, was produced with official support at Okochi in the Nabeshima fief (modern-day Saga Prefecture, Kyushu). This plate has long been famous as one of the larger surviving pieces of Nabeshima ware. A very deep plate with a high […]
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Taikan Yokoyama 1948, Japan Height 64.7 cm, width 92.2 cm Taikan Yokoyama (1868 – 1958) was born at the beginning of Japan’s modern period of westernization. He studies under Kakuzo (or Tenshin) Okakura, one of the leaders of Japan’s art world, and worked to create a new style of purely Japanese painting. This painting was […]
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Nara period (645 – 794), Japan Dim.: 26.7 X 154.5 cm. The Sutra of Cause and Effect was translated into Chinese in four fascicles by the fifth-century Indian monk Gunabhadra. A biography of Shakyamuni, it describes both his former lives and his existence as the historical Buddha. In the eight-fascicle illustrated version of this sutra, […]
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Sakai Hoitsu (1761 – 1828) Edo Period (1615 – 1867) Height 91.4 cm, width 35.1 cm Sakai Hoitsu was the sun of the feudal lord of Himeji Castle, and in this fortunate environment he was able to study art from his childhood. He especially admired workd of Korin and became a painter, a poet, and […]
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T’ang Dynasty (618 – 907) Colors on paper Height 139.1 cm, width 53.3 cm Important Cultural Property Lady Under a Tree, one of the well-known masterpieces in the collection Master Jinsai built, was among the works in danger of being sold abroad. In the summer of 1952, before it had been designated an Important Cultural […]
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Ogata Kōrin, circa 1710, Edo Period Pair of twofold screens, colors on silver and gold leaf over paper Each screen: height 156.0 cm, width 172.2 cm. National Treasure The work of Ogata Korin (1658 – 1716) was influenced by that of Tawaraya Sotatsu (fl. early seventeenth century). Korin’s original style is embodied in the composition […]
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