Teaching Gallery: Divine Inspiration

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Teaching Gallery: Divine Inspiration
Teaching Gallery: Divine Inspiration
Sherry Fowler, curator
White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

For this exhibition, students in the spring 2012 History of Art seminar “Japanese Prints and the American Museum,” taught by Dr. Sherry Fowler, Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, selected Japanese prints from the Spencer Museum of Art collection.

Works of art

Shaka Triad with Sixteen Deities
1800s, Edo period (1600–1868) or Meiji period
Utagawa Kunisada II (1823–1880), #18 Marishiten appearing to Prince Siddhartha on Mt. Ryōju
1860, 4th month, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kichizan Minchō (1351 or 1352–1431), Tōfukuji Nehanzō (Parinirvana image from Tōfukuji temple in Kyoto)
Kichizan Minchō (1351 or 1352–1431)
late Edo period (1600–1868) to early Meiji period (1868–1912)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), #47 Fudō Waterfall at Ōji
1857, 9th month, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850), Qingao riding a carp
circa 1820, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yokoyama Kazan (1784–1837), Minister Hong bows to the heavenly teacher
1829, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Seiōbo (Hsi Wang Mu, the Taoist goddess)
circa 1800–1805, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889); Sawamuraya Seikichi, Jigoku dayū (Hell Courtesan)
1874, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Coronation of Emperor Taisho, Nov. 10, 1915
1915, Taisho period (1912–1926)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Nobotoura (The Coast of Noboto)
circa 1830, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ōura Nobuyuki (born 1949); Yosuke Akiba, Publishers 21st Century, Inc.; Okabe Print Studio; Print House OM, I
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1982–1983, Showa period (1926–1989)
Inbutsu (stamp print) of Fudō Myōō
1200s–1300s, Kamakura period (1185–1333) or Muromachi period (1336–1573)
Yokoyama Kazan (1784–1837), Minister Hong bows to the Heavenly Teacher
early 1890s, Edo period (1600–1868)

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