Sendai City Museum
I visited Sendai City Museum to see the collection of MOA Museum of Art (in Shizuoka). The exhibit is unique in that this collection of national treasures is displayed for a limited run (6-25 March, 2012). The MOA offered to loan this to Sendai for survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The prime exhibit is a pair of folding screens; the 'Red and White Plum Blossoms'. It's a masterpiece of Ogata Korin (1658-1716), who was the renowned Japanese artist. Interestingly, experts discovered that gold leaf and silver leaf were used in this screens. Therefore, the colours of the stream looks now black and goldish or brownish, but originally it was black and silver. It's really beautiful and I think the symmetrical trees are well-balanced.
In the museum, there were some volunteer staff, they explained trivia in each booth. So I made new discoveries about the permanent collection. I also watched a short film about Hasekura Tsunenaga, (also called 'Francisco Felipe Faxicura', as he was baptised in Spain). He headed a diplomatic mission to the Vatican in Rome as the ambassador of daimyo Masamune, but when he returned to Sendai, an effort to eradicate Christianity had been underway, and Japan moved towards the closure of the country. His life was tossed about by the national policy, but he executed his mission. His death is unknown.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/recovery/AJ201202250045
The prime exhibit is a pair of folding screens; the 'Red and White Plum Blossoms'. It's a masterpiece of Ogata Korin (1658-1716), who was the renowned Japanese artist. Interestingly, experts discovered that gold leaf and silver leaf were used in this screens. Therefore, the colours of the stream looks now black and goldish or brownish, but originally it was black and silver. It's really beautiful and I think the symmetrical trees are well-balanced.
In the museum, there were some volunteer staff, they explained trivia in each booth. So I made new discoveries about the permanent collection. I also watched a short film about Hasekura Tsunenaga, (also called 'Francisco Felipe Faxicura', as he was baptised in Spain). He headed a diplomatic mission to the Vatican in Rome as the ambassador of daimyo Masamune, but when he returned to Sendai, an effort to eradicate Christianity had been underway, and Japan moved towards the closure of the country. His life was tossed about by the national policy, but he executed his mission. His death is unknown.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/recovery/AJ201202250045
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