Friday, September 4, 2009

Asian Aesthetic in War & Peace


Run! to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum's http://www.asianart.org/Samurai.htm special exhibit, "Lords of the Samurai" - which will close September 20th. From the website, "Lords of the Samurai takes an intimate look at the daimyo, or provincial lords of the warrior class in feudal Japan. The Hosokawa clan, powerful military nobles with a 600-year-old lineage, embodied this duality of fierce warrior and refined gentleman.
The exhibition features more than 160 works from the Hosokawa family collection housed in the Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo, and from Kumamoto Castle and the Kumamoto Municipal Museum in Kyushu. Objects on view include suits of armor, armaments (including swords and guns), formal attire, calligraphy, paintings, tea wares, lacquerware, masks, and musical instruments."

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