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Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan

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Choose an image below to browse some of the works on view in the exhibition, organized online by medium.

Please note that a selection of paintings, ceramics, and lacquer objects will rotate and new ones will be on view beginning December 3, 2003. In addition, the textiles on view will rotate November 18 and December 16.

The Evolution of Genre Painting
Folding screens and hanging scrolls
Unique and Powerful Wares for the Tea Ceremony
Oribe and other sixteenth-century ceramics
Kodaiji Maki-e Lacquerware in the Momoyama Period
Black-lacquered wooden objects with sumptuous ornamentation
Tsujigahana Textiles
Garments worn by high-ranking members of sixteenth-century society
Learn more by selecting from the following:

Exhibition Overview

The Evolution of Genre Painting

Oribe Ceramics

Kodaiji Maki-e Lacquerware in the Momoyama Period

Tsujigahana Textiles



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