Bamboo grove on a knoll with stylized gold mist. Mineral pigments on gold leaf with silk brocade border.

Unique Japanese two-panel screen depicting two painted landscapes of summer and autumn. Ink on color pigments each signed by artist with seals. Mounted to lacquered frames with silk borders. Paintings on textured paper measure 13 wide by 48 inches high.

TEMAS PARA UN MUNDO QUE COMPARTIMOS

Japanese gardens have a type of bridge made from eight narrow wooden planks forming a zigzag pattern called yatsuhashi, meaning "eight bridges." Learn more.

Jan. 29-March 6

This screen depicts an episode from the Tales of Ise, a 10th-century collection of poems and associated narratives in which the main character composes the following poem while drinking sake and

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'The most important Japanese artist you've never heard of.' That is how James Ulak, senior curator of Japanese art at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, describes Tawaraya Sotatsu, the focus of the gallery's current magnificent exhibition. The show presents the first in-depth examination of...

◆日本文化・いろは歌◆日本人には馴染みのある「いろは歌」。いろは歌とは、すべての仮名を重複させずに使って作られた誦文（ずもん）のことで七五調の今様の形式となっ…