Event
Specal Exhibition
Feb 21, 2016 (sat) – Mar 21, 2016 (mon・national holiday)
Hours: 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Entrance until 4:30 p.m.)
Closed: Monday(Tuesday if the Monday is a national holiday)
Admission:
Adult 520 yen
University Student 260 yen
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/theme/floor2_3/medi_20160223.html
Venue
Kyoto National Museum
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/index_top.html
Access: 527 Chaya-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0931, Japan
Tel: 075-541-1151
Hours: 9：30 ~ 18：00/Tuesday ~ Thursday and Weekend
9：30 ~ 20：00/Friday（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday(Tuesday if the Monday is a national holiday)
Description
Landscape painting flourished in medieval Japan, influenced by the landscape painting of Song (960-1279) Yuan (1271-1368)-dynasty China. The genre reached its pinnacle during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573). Works range from small, hanging illustrated poetry scrolls, produced in great number by groups of Chinese poetry aficionados in the 15th century, to enormous works on folding screens or covering the sliding doors of rooms, and these myriad landscapes were part of the fabric of daily life. Exhibited here are some outstanding examples of the genre. Notice the incredible range of styles, from the rough brushwork that nonetheless produces realistic atmospheric effects in Sesshū’s View of Ama-no-hashidate, to the elegant embodiment of refined Kyoto aesthetics in Shōkei’s View of a Lake and Mountains, to the moist and mysterious atmosphere conjured up by Sōami’s Moonlit Night Landscape.
