| Author |
Hirabayashi, Moritoku 1933- |
| Title |
Essays : twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections |
| Publisher |
Washington D.C. : Imperial Household Agency, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan Foundation, and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1997 |
| Physical desc. |
83 p. ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
Collection of essays accompanying the exhibition catalogue, Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections, published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec. 14, 1997-Mar. 8, 1998. |
| Contents |
Emperors as artists and cultural leaders / Miyajima Shin'ichi. -- Calligraphy: the Imperial Collection and its masterworks in historical context / Hirabayashi Moritoku. -- The tradition and transmission of imperial culture in the early modern period: the collection of the former Katsuranomiya family / Ohta Aya. -- Reassessing historical role: the Imperial Household and the Imperial Household Ministry and modern Japanese art / Ohkuma Toshiyuki. |
| Corporate name |
Japan Kunaicho -- Art collections -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Scrolls, Japanese -- Exhibitions |
| Ink painting, Japanese -- Exhibitions |
| Calligraphy, Japanese -- Exhibitions |
| Painting, Japanese -- Exhibitions |
| Scrolls Private collections -- Japan -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Miyajima Shin'ichi |
| Ohkuma Toshiyuki |
| Ohta Aya |
