Jun 13, 2019
Mimosa Tree, Poppies, and Other Summer Flowers by Tawaraya Sōsetsu
Japanese, Edo Period, 1630-1670
ink, color, and gold on paper
Freer Gallery of Art
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Mimosa Tree, Poppies, and Other Summer Flowers by Tawaraya Sōsetsu
Japanese, Edo Period, 1630-1670
ink, color, and gold on paper
Freer Gallery of Art
Looking at Chinese pots at the Freer Gallery
Shiva Natarava (Lord of the Dance) India, state of Tamil Nadu, Chola Dynasty, ca. 990 Bronze “This bronze image reveals how Chola sculptures transformed profound beliefs into exquisitely realized form. Shiva Nataraja dances the world into existence as he holds aloft the cosmic flames of its cyclic destruction. His posture radiates graceful energy. Poised upon the dwarf of ignorance, he lifts his foot high across his body and extends his left arm to offer refuge to devotee. His wildly streaming locks of hair and the flaming, oval aureole (prabha) expand the radius of energy outward and upward. Though stone images of Nataraja were created before the tenth century, it took the technical mastery and artistic genius of Chola bronze casters to perfect this form, which remains the Nataraja archetype today.”
Freer / Sackler Gallery.
The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, part of the Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia exhibition. Freer | Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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Title: Kachikachiyama Artist: Yamamoto Shōun Origin: Japan Medium: Woodblock print: ink on paper Size: H x W: 24.1 x 24.9 cm (9 1/2 x 9 13/16 in) Source: The Freer Sackler Collection
Cherry blossoms have always made beautiful backdrops for photos. 🌸 More than a century ago, three young women dressed in kimonos pose with parasols under a blooming cherry tree.
This photo (from sometime between 1860 and 1900) is in our @freersackler’s collection. It was included in an album produced by the studio of Tamamura Kozaburo (1880s–1900s), a successful commercial photography studio in Japan.
Can’t get your cherry blossom fix in D.C. this year? See plenty of peak bloom across our collections online.
Washington, D.C.
Shana L. Darabie
Folding screens, mounted with poems from the anthology Shin Kokinshu, by Hon'ami Kōetsu
Japanese, Edo Period, c. 1624-1637
ink, color, and gold on paper
Freer Gallery of Art