Exhibition ‘Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)’ Opened

On March 30, the exhibition titled ‘Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)’ opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for the centennial commemoration of the donation of 3,000 cherry trees from Japan to the US capital (until April 29). It was the first time that ITŌ Jakuchū’s representative works, all thirty hanging scrolls of ‘Colorful Realm of Living Beings’ (The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shōzōkan) and his triptych of the Buddha Śākyamuni (Shōkokuji) were exhibited together outside Japan. At the same time, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery also exhibited KANŌ Kazunobu’s paintings ‘Masters of Mercy: Budhha’s Amazing Disciples’ (Zōjōji) and KATSUSHIKA Hokusai’s ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’. (Japanese)