Special Exhibition:Celebrating the Rimpa School's 400th Anniversary

The Rimpa School and Autumn Colors in Japanese Art

1 September (Tue.) - 25 October (Sun.) 2015 (Closed on 9/24, 10/13 and on Mondays, except for 9/21 and 10/12) Hours:10am - 5pm (Last admission at 4:30pm) Admission Fees: Adults: 1,200 [1,000] yen; university and high school students: 900 [800] yen; middle school and younger children: free of charge *Figures in brackets are for groups of 20 or more, advance tickets, repeaters with used tickets, and those who are wearing kimono. *Disability ID Holders and one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge. Organized by: Yamatane Museum of Art and Nikkei Inc.

◆ Highlights of the Exhibition ◆

Chapter 1: Rimpa Through the Four Seasons Attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Chinese Black Pines and Maple Trees, Color on Gold-Leafed Paper, Period, 17th Century Painting by Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu, Fragment of the Shinkokinshū Poetry Anthology: Deer, Ink, Gold and Silver on Paper, , 17th Century Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Lotus Pond and Bird, Ink on Paper, Edo Period, 17th Century, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Puppy, Ink on Paper, Edo Period, 17th Century, (On display 9/1 - 9/27) Ogata Kenzan, Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months Based on Fujiwara Teika's Poems: February, Color on Paper, Edo Period, 18th Century, Nakamura Hōchū, Crane and Old Pine Tree, Color on Paper, Edo Period, 18th to 19th Century, Sakai Hōitsu, Autumn Plants and Quails (Important Art Object), Color on Gold-Leafed Paper, Edo Period, 19th Century Sakai Hōitsu, Chrysanthemums with Bird, Color on Silk, Late Edo Period, 19th Century Suzuki Kiitsu, Peonies, Color on Silk, Edo Period, 1851 Tanaka Hōji, Rabbits and Bush Clover, Color on Silk, Edo to Meiji Period, 19th Century,

Chapter 2: Learning from the Rimpa Style Hishida Shunsō, The Moon in the Four Seasons: Autumn, Ink and Light Color on Silk, Meiji Period, c. 1909-10 Kobayashi Kokei, Puppy, Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, c. 1949, Kobayashi Kokei, Autumn Fruit, Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 1934 Fukuda Heihachirō, Autumn Leaves, Color on Silk, Shōwa Period, 1943 Yamaguchi Hōshun, Maple Tree (Preparatory Painting for Panel at the New Imperial Palace), Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 1967 Kayama Matazō, Light of the Full Moon, Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 1973

Chapter 3: Autumn Colors Watanabe Seitei, Grapes with a Rat, Color on Silk, Meiji to Taishō Period, 19th to 20th Century Takeuchi Seihō, Autumn Evening, Color on Silk, Shōwa Period, c. 1929 Kawai Gyokudō, Autumn Landscape with Colored Maple Trees, Color on Silk, Shōwa Period, 1946 Kobayashi Kokei, Cat, Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 1946 Yasuda Yukihiko, Rabbit, Color on Silk, Shōwa Period, c. 1938 Okumura Togyū, Squirrel, Light Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 20th Century Hayami Gyoshū, Autumn in Yamashina, Color on Silk, Taishō Period, 1917 Okuda Gensō, Oirase Ravine: Autumn, Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 1983 Ikeda Yōson, "On a Straight Road, Lonesome," by Santōka, Color on Paper, Shōwa Period, 1986 Approximately 60 works in total are to be displayed. Collection : …Private Collection No marks…Yamatane Museum of Art

About the Exhibition

In 2015, we celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of an art colony north of by Hon'ami Kōetsu, the founding father of the Rimpa school. To commemorate that significant event in Rimpa history, the Yamatane Museum of Art is holding an exhibition focusing on the Rimpa school and Rimpa-related aesthetics.

During the Edo period, the artistic lineage founded by Tawaraya Sōtatsu and Hon'ami Kōetsu was sustained, generation after generation. It has since influenced many Nihonga artists from the Meiji period on. Since ancient times, people in , with its rich natural environment, have cultivated their love of nature's beauty throughout the four seasons of the year. Rimpa artists, in particular, regarded the expression of the seasons as an important theme and delicately depicted the flowers and other seasonal features, using a great variety of techniques.

This exhibition presents works on subjects unique to the Rimpa school by Sōtatsu, Kōrin, Ogata Kenzan, Sakai Hōitsu, Suzuki Kiitsu with a distinctive sense of the seasons. It also includes characteristically Rimpa-style works by modern and contemporary Nihonga artists who have studied the Rimpa school and emulated it in their work. They are accompanied by works that convey a sense of the moods of autumn, often found in Rimpa paintings. We hope you will enjoy these three approaches in this exhibition.

The exhibitions include works by Rimpa artists and modern and contemporary artists influenced by the Rimpa aesthetic. The highlights include Fragment of the Shinkokinshū Poetry Anthology: Deer (painting by Tawaraya Sōtatsu, calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu), in which a deer, an autumnal motif, is rendered in gold and silver pigments. In Puppy, Sōtatsu has used the tarashikomi technique to create pooled, blurred colors. The stand of trees in Chinese Black Pines and Maple Trees (attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu) generates a rhythmical effect. Hōitsu's chrysanthemums, blooming majestically, create a vivid image in Chrysanthemums with Bird. In Fukuda Heihachirō's Autumn Leaves, the simplified leaves in bright colors are eloquent. In his Puppy, Kobayashi Kokei echoes Sōtatsu's use of tarashikomi in depicting an adorable young canine. In addition, Takeuchi Seihō's Autumn Evening and Okumura Togyū's Squirrel give a sense of the affection with which they viewed small animals and other familiar creatures, while Kawai Gyokudō's Autumn Landscape with Colored Maple Trees and Okuda Gensō's lyrical Oriase Ravine: Autumn bring us blazing autumn foliage. These artists present the joys of the autumn landscape in all its variety and invite us to savor the deepening season as expressed in these paintings as the seasons transition around us.

Attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Chinese Black Pines and Maple Trees, Yamatane Museum of Art

Sakai Hōitsu, Autumn Plants and Quails (Important Art Object), Yamatane Museum of Art

Painting by Tawaraya Sōtatsu,Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu, Fragment of the Shinkokinshū Poetry Anthology: Deer,

Yamatane Museum of Art

Ogata Kenzan, Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months Based on Fujiwara Teika's Poems: February,

Private Collection Sakai Hōitsu, Suzuki Kiitsu, Chrysanthemums with Bird, Peonies, Yamatane Museum of Art Yamatane Museum of Art

Kobayashi Kokei,

Puppy, Fukuda Heihachirō, Kawai Gyokudō, Private Collection Autumn Leaves, Autumn Landscape Yamatane Museum of Art with Colored Maple Trees, Yamatane Museum of Art