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Detail: Nature in all its seasonal variations has long enthralled the Japanese. Flowers, each blooming in its season, are especially loved, both for their beauty and as motifs symbolizing the seasons in art, poetry, and prose. They capture the fascinated attention of artists, who continue to depict flowers today. The ways in which flowers are painted are also rich in variations: flowers by themselves, combined with birds or insects, or the flowers of the four seasons filling the picture plane. To celebrate spring at its height, our museum is holding a thematic exhibition on the subject of flowers throughout the seasons. Plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, peonies, roses, lilies, hydrangeas, morning glories, chrysanthemums, Chinese bellflowers, narcissus, camellias: Through the archetypical flowers seen in Japanese art, visitors may explore the rich world of painting, from the Edo period to our day.
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Tanomura Chokunyū, A Hundred Flowers (detail) |
1869 Color on Silk |
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