Exhibition ‘KORIN’ Opened

On April 21, the special exhibition ‘KORIN: Irises and Eight Bridges: Masterpieces by Kōrin from the Nezu Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ opened at the Nezu Museum. The exhibition featured two of OGATA Kōrin’s masterpieces, a pair of gold screens ‘Irises’ (National Treasure) in the museum’s collection and another pair of gold screens ‘Irises at Yatsuhashi’ in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This was the first time for them to be exhibited together since the 1915 commemorative bicentennial exhibition of Kōrin’s death. The exhibition had been originally scheduled to be held the previous year. However, it was postponed due to the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Japanese)