We are pleased to present this exhibition of works by Morihiro Hosokawa, as well as works from the Eisei Bunko Museum collection, in celebration of the museum’s opening.
Morihiro Hosokawa is a versatile artist, having worked in such diverse media as pottery, calligraphy, and painting. Today, he is solely focused on producing screen and wall paintings for Yakushiji Temple. This exhibition features a broad variety of items, exploring Hosokawa’s pedigree as an artist. His pottery work on display focuses on teacups, as well as water pitchers, Buddhist sculpture, and more. The exhibition also features other tea ceremony items, such as chashaku tea scoops and mounted scrolls. In addition to these, there are exhibits of byobu folding screens, as well as calligraphy, oil paintings, lacquer artwork, and other paintings, providing a complete sense of Hosokawa’s incredibly diverse skills as an artist.
This exhibition also features items on loan from the collection of the Eisei Bunko Museum, for which Morihiro Hosokawa serves as the administrative director. The Eisei Bunko Museum was established in 1950 by Morihiro Hosokawa’s grandfather, Moritatsu Hosokawa, who was the sixteenth feudal lord of the Kumamoto Domain (in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture). This museum collects and preserves works of art handed down by the Hosokawa clan and obtained by Moritatsu and other relevant individuals, including items from such prominent figures as Yusai Hosokawa, who was famed both as a warrior and as a poet, and Tadaoki Hosokawa, who was a student of Sen no Rikyu. For this exhibition, we present a wide selection of superb items from this collection, including Chinese pottery, a jar used for tea ceremony, a flower holder made by Tadaoki Hosokawa, a suzuri-bako inkstone box elaborately decorated with maki-e, and more.
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