Brosseau Center for Learning: Japanese Ceremonies and Festivals

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Japanese Ceremonies and Festivals
May 2, 2023–May 21, 2023
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selections for the May 6 activity commemorating the Kite Festival and the May 11 Senior Session, “Japanese Craft and the Art of Tea.”

Works of art

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
kite of the strong man, Asaina, circa 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Miyagawa Shuntei
Origami (Paper folding), late 1896, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Miyagawa Shuntei
水指 mizusashi (lidded water container), Edo period (1600–1868)
Miyagawa Kōzan
bowl with chrysanthemums, late 1800s, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige
Tal Streeter
Tal Streeter
Heron and Butterflies with Rock, late 1700s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Nishikawa Sukenobu
untitled double book page [children's festival], circa 1747–1749, Edo period (1600–1868)
Tsubaki Chinzan
Birds Amid Cherry Blossoms, 1828, Edo period (1600–1868)
Watanabe Gentai
武陵桃源 Buryô tôgen (Wuling’s Peach Blossom Spring), late 1700s–early 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
#27 Kakegawa no zu (Picture of Kakegawa), circa 1838, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kabasawa Kenji
Kabasawa Kenji
Kabasawa Kenji
Toyohara Chikanobu
ichigatsu (The First Month), 1890, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Toyohara Chikanobu
gogatsu (The Fifth Month), 1890, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Toyohara Chikanobu
untitled (children collecting insects), 1940–1945, Showa period (1926–1989)
Kanō Hidenobu (Terunobu)
Diptych of Bird and Flowers, 1700s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Keisuke Serizawa
May, 1967
Keisuke Serizawa
untitled (flying kite), late 1800s, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Events

May 6, 2023
Activity
1:00–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Reece Memorial Plaza
May 11, 2023
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, 406 Stewart Gallery, 409 Lee Study Center