Cherry Blossom with Hawk, By Katsushika Hokusai, Edo period, 19th century
Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room 10
March 20, 2012 (Tue) - April 15, 2012 (Sun)
This exhibition displays representations of sakura, or cherry blossoms, found in bijinga portraits of beautiful women, bird-and-flower paintings, and landscape scenes. The exhibits range from an early Edo-period folding screen portraying amusement in front of the Gion Shrine (present-day Yasuka Shrine) in Kyoto, to prints in Utagawa Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Places of Edo that depict sakura in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Exhibit includes:
Twelve Months of the Shinagawa Pleasure Quarters: April, By Torii Kiyonaga, Edo period, 18th century (Important Art Object)
Cherry Blossom with Hawk, By Katsushika Hokusai, Edo period, 19th century
Views of Gotenyama, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century