Shusui Museum of Art has built its collection and public programs around paintings and decorative arts from Japan’s medieval period through the present. In this exhibition, we present the profound spirituality and singular allure of Japanese art, and, in celebration of the New Year, we have selected works befitting the season for “Spring of Elegance.”
Highlights include Scenes from a Poetic Contest across Eras: Fujiwara no Toshiyuki and the Lady of Tango, a Kamakura-period painting that pairs poets from different times in an imagined uta-awase (poetry match); Kikujidō and the Queen Mother of the West by Otake Kokkan—the youngest of the three Otake brothers, who began their careers with Toyama medicine-merchant prints; as well as modern nihonga by leading figures of the modern Japanese painting world, together with ceramics and other works in a rich array of expressions on the theme of spring.
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