Hokusai From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kobe City Museum
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was an ukiyo-e artist active in the late Edo period. For seventy years, until his death in his ninetieth year, he was relentless in his experimentation with new artistic styles. While ukiyo-e prints are loved and admired over the world, Hokusai’s work is especially popular, a favorite of dedicated collectors and researchers in Europe and America as well as Japan. His work is found in museum collections worldwide. This exhibition presents a selection of works by Hokusai, the pride of Japan, from the world-famous collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. It also includes jewels from the MFA collection in this rigorously selected group of 142 works with truly amazing colors, including works of extreme rarity to be seen nowhere else. Here you will experience a view of Hokusai that will exceed your most vivid imagination. “Hokusai and His School”, the first comprehensive exhibition of Hokusai’s work organized from a scholarly point of view, was curated by Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) and held by the Department of Chinese and Japanese Art of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. 120 years later, this exhibition brings works by Hokusai from Boston back to Japan.
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“Hokusai at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston”
(In English, with Japanese interpretation)
Speaker: Sarah Thompson (Curator for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Date: Apr. 26 (Sat) 14:00–15:30
Audience: 180 (tickets will be distributed from 13:00)
Free with admission to exhibition
Children’s Day Special Guided Tours “Hokusai for Children and Parents”
Date: May 5 (Mon, public holiday) 10:00–11:30 and 14:00–15:30
Participants: 50 each session (Junior High School students and younger should be accompanied by a guardian), participants chosen by lottery if interest exceeds available spaces.
Free with guardian’s admission to exhibition
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[Image: “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” Photograph ⓒ 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All rights reserved.]
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Schedule
from April 26, 2014 at 9:30 to June 22, 2014 at 17:30
Open until 19:00 on Saturdays. Closed on Mondays except for Apr. 28 and May 5.