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Discover hundreds of years of history in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s collection of Japanese art and artifacts, including paintings, woodblock prints, early Imari and Kutani ware ceramics, and lacquer ware.
Preble/Murphy Wing for Japanese Art Now on View
Art and Everyday Life in Japan
Traditional Japanese aesthetic sensibilities are characteristically double-edged, balancing a taste for bold colors, abstract patterns, and refined elegance against an appreciation of the rough hewn, the simple, and the plain. The new installation of the Preble/Murphy Galleries examines both of these tendencies, focusing in particular on the artistic dimensions of everyday objects and on the representation of everyday life as a subject for art.
Among the “everyday” objects included in the installation are a number of country textiles (including a fireman’s suit and a fishmonger’s jacket), and a selection of wrapping cloths, ceramics, netsuke (clothing toggles), and lacquerware (letter boxes, combs, and more). There are also special sections devoted to “tea taste” and the tea ceremony, and to Japanese prints.