Join the Friends of Asian Art and Japan-America Society of Houston for insight into the work of Hokusai as the Canon Tsuzuri Cultural Inheritance Project provides an up-close view of Hokusai Katsuhika’s “Country Scenes and Mount Fuji.”
While Hokusai (1760-1849) died shortly before the Meiji Period began, he is associated with Meiji Japan largely because of his popularity in the West during the era. Like artwork of the Meiji Period, as both artistic and technological achievements, Hokusai’s art is unrivaled in its intricate detail, technical mastery, precious materials, and inventive adaptation. These artistic traits are evident in “Country Scenes and Mount Fuji,” arguably the only pair of six-panel folding screens produced by Hokusai with his own hands.
“Country Scenes and Mount Fuji” also serves as an introduction to Ernest Fenollosa, as the Hokusai screens came to be a part of the collection of Charles Lang Freer through Fenollosa. Fenollosa, an American poet and art critic who assumed important cultural positions in Meiji-period Japan, affected both the production and reception of what constituted “Japanese art” in the Meiji period.
Join Dr. Bradley Bailey, the MFAH’s Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Curator of Asian Art, and Dr. Sarah Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as they examine Hokusai’s influence and discuss preservation of cultural heritage.
The program is made possible by a grant to the National Association of Japan-America Societies from the United States-Japan Foundation and is supported by the Kyoto Cultural Association.
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