• Wednesday September 25th, 2013

Event

Rikyû Shôan Genpaku: The Founding Era of the Sen Family
With the first public exhibition of the restored Fusuma-e with Pine Trees and Bridge Design by Hasegawa Tôhaku
September 6, 2013 (fri) – December 23, 2013 (mon)　
Admission: Adults: 800yen
Students (university): 600yen
Students (high school): 300yen
Junior high school students and under :free
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/museum/exhibition/index.html

Venue

　
Raku Museum
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/
Access: 84 Aburanokôji Nakadachi-uri agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto,
602-0923, Japan　
Tel: 075-414-0304
Hours: 10：00 ~ 16：30
（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday (Open: if the Monday is a national holiday)

Description

This exhibition entitled Rikyû Shôan Genpaku: The Founding Era of the Sen Family features Raku tea bowls as well as other tea utensils associated with three founding generations of the Sen family and their tea tradition, who are Sen Rikyû, Sen Shôan, who commemorates 400 years anniversary of his death this year, and Genpaku Sôtan. During the exhibition we are very pleased to present Fusuma-e, the four-panelled painting with Pine Trees and Bridge Design by Hasegawa Tôhaku, which will be on the first public display after restoration.
Most of the painted panels that previously belonged to the Sangen-in sub-temple of the Daitokuji temple complex are now housed inside the Entoku-in sub-temple of the Kôdaiji temple complex, all of which have been designated as the Important Cultural Properties. This Fusuma-e in the Raku Museum collection was part of this group of panels that came to the possession of the Raku family because of the contact that 11th generation Raku Keinuyû had with the Daitokuji abbot during the period of so-called Haibutsu Kishaku, Expulsion of the Buddhism, under the Meiji Restoration when many images and texts in the Buddhist temple treasury were scattered around the country and some destroyed and lost. This set of four panelled-painting has been much appraised because of its stylistic similarity comparable to another renown screen painting of pine trees by the same artist in the collection of the National Museum of Tokyo designated as the National Treasure. However due to a poor condition of the painting surface where much of gold leaf came off the immediate restoration was desired. After two-year period, the work is now fully restored to its splendor and is ready for public view for the first time.
(Please note the viewing dates)