"Jakuchu; the 120-year Masterpiece Reunion" Exhibition
Shokoku-ji Jotenkaku Art Museum
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The exhibition displays 122 works by Jakuchu Ito (1716-1800) a prominent Japanese painting artist during the Edo period (1603-1868). His works have gained much popularity in recent years on an international level. Two of his masterpieces, one of a Buddhist statue and one of animals and plants, reunite in the exhibition after a 120-year period.
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from May 13, 2007 to June 03, 2007
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A rare reunion of Jakuchus
Shokokuji shows 33 masterpieces as the grouped set they once were
By Michael Dunn
Special to The Japan Times
Joe Price, an avid collector of Ito Jakuchu, compares the painter's "Sakyamuni Triad" and "The Colorful Realm of Living Beings" to Michaelangelo's frescoes in Rome's Sistine Chapel ...