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Object Spotlight: Japanese gunpowder flask with figures in Portuguese dress
This lacquered wood gunpowder flask (kayaku-ire) was produced in Japan. It is artistic in form but with an important practical use. The flask gives a useful insight into a fascinating … Continue reading
Diary of a Tea Ceremony Demonstration
Every month, except over Christmas and during the summer holidays, we hold a Japanese tea ceremony demonstration in the traditional Japanese tea house in the Museum’s Japanese galleries. The tea house was designed and built especially for the Ashmolean by … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashmolean, Dr Clare Pollard, green tea, ichigo ichie, Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese tea house, matcha, wabi
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Hiroshige’s Japan: Views of Mount Fuji
15 November 2016 to 26 March 2017 Gallery 29 | Admission Free Mount Fuji, an active volcano and Japan’s highest mountain, has long been praised by poets and depicted by artists for its beautiful shape and sacred status. In the … Continue reading
Monkey Tales: Apes and Monkeys in Asian Art
Exhibition dates: 14 Jun 2016 to 30 Oct 2016 Gallery 29 | Admission Free 2016 is the Year of the Monkey according to the traditional Chinese lunar calendar. While the lunar calendar and its twelve zodiac animals are distinct to … Continue reading
Scenes of Last Tokyo
Scenes of Last Tōkyō (Tokyo kaiko zue): Japanese Creative Prints from 1945 Gallery 29, until 5 June 2016 The spring 2016 exhibition in the Ashmolean’s Eastern Art Prints and Paintings gallery highlights a set of fifteen Japanese woodblock prints published … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashmolean, Dr Clare Pollard, Exhibition, Japanese Art, Prints, sosaku hanga, Tokyo
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