UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART
Thursday-Sunday 12-5 pm
Wednesday 12-8 pm
CLOSED Monday and Tuesday

Please visit the Japanese galleries (second floor) and observe the following works of art and architecture. You may also wish to visit the exhibition, "Footprints of the Buddha," also on the second floor to reinforce your studies. Consider the works in relation to similar works or works by the same artist that you have studied for class.

Japanese Woodblock Prints Gallery

by Kuniyoshi .
1. Twelve Brave Japanese Heroes series
2. Benkei

by Hiroshige
1 and 2. Tokaido series, 2 landscapes

Japanese Art Galleries

Folding Screens: Scenes In and Around Kyoto

Death of the Buddha painting (to rear of "Buddhist platform")

Sho Kannon. ca. 1100 (Buddhist statue in glass wall case)

Tea accessories (in glass wall case)

Mountain Landscape by Takeuchi Seiho (in glass wall case)

Lintel mounted near the doll display.

Note also the crafts--textiles (indigo, stencil-dyed) hanging high on the walls, ceramics, and lacquered objects.

I hope you will find all the works in the gallery interesting. Enjoy!