"The New Acquisitions" Exhibition

Kyoto National Museum

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Moshiogusa (literally, "brinish seaweed") is one of the Kyoto National Museum's best-known tekagami (album of exemplary calligraphy) with many segments from celebrated calligraphic works, such as the Takano-gire and the Hon'ami-gire. This exhibition presents the museum's newly acquired counterpart Komonjo tekagami (Album of Early Documents), which contains eighty-eight folios. This album is unique in that it contains only early documents, rather than a selection of calligraphic works. This compilation is also historically significant in that almost all the folios, except for three, have been mounted in their entirety because of the large format of the album.
*Exhibiting at the Collection Hall, room 13/17.

Saturday Seminar "Ming Dynasty Imperial Paintings" (Japanese)
Location: Kyoto National Museum, Main Hall
Date: 6/23 (Sat) 13:30-
*6/23 (Sat) is free admission day, and there will be advanced tickets available near the entrance hall.
Image: "Reading Stand with Weeping Cherry Trees and Gion Shrine Crests" Courtesy of Kyoto National Museum