Dogu (Clay figurine), Excavated from Ichinomiya, Itoigawa-shi, Niigata, Mid-Jomon period, 3000-2000 BC (Gift of Ms. Hayashi Katsuko)
Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room T1
March 15, 2016 (Tue) - April 24, 2016 (Sun)
This annual exhibition, which is in its 16th year, displays recently repaired objects in order to share the results of the museum’s conservation activities with the public. It is an opportunity to share important aspects of the restorations, the restoration processes, and the discoveries they made possible. Displayed in this room are 21 fully repaired objects from the genres of painting, calligraphy, swords, ceramics, lacquerware, textiles, and archaeology, as well as 6 objects, which received emergency treatments, from the categories of painting, treasures of Horyuji Temple, and East Asian textiles. Moreover, Portrait of Takami Senseki by Watanabe Kazan, which has also been fully repaired, is on display in Room 2, the National Treasure Gallery.
Current exhibit includes:
Dogu (Clay figurine), Excavated from Ichinomiya, Itoigawa-shi, Niigata, Mid-Jomon period, 3000-2000 BC (Gift of Ms. Hayashi Katsuko)
Deep Bowl, Flower and bird design in overglaze enamel, Imari ware, Kakiemon type, Edo period, 17th century (Important Cultural Property)
Fragments of Embroidery, Phoenix design, Asuka-Nara period, 7th-8th century
Fragments of Ban (Buddhist ritual banner), On plain-weave silk in shijira weaving, Asuka-Nara period, 7th-8th century
Portrait of Master Tsubouchi, Attributed to Watanabe Kazan, Edo period, 19th century (Gift of Mr. Takai Gun'ichi and Mrs. Takai Shigeko; conservation funded by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Project 2013)
Draft for Portrait of Master Tsubouchi, By Watanabe Kazan, Edo period, dated 1818 (Gift of Mr. Okano Tetsusaku; conservation funded by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Project 2013)