National Gallery of Art
East Building, Large Auditorium
Friday, March 30, 2012, 10 am

Co-sponsored by the National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Session 1: Jakuchû’s Colorful Realm:
The World Reimagined
10:00 am

ELIZABETH CROPPER
Center for Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts
Opening Remarks

YUKIO LIPPIT
Harvard University
Welcome

JAMES ULAK
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Introduction and moderator

TSUJI NOBUO
Miho Museum
Wondrous Wallpaper: Jakuchû’s Visual World

ÔTA AYA
Sannomaru Shôzôkan Museum
Colorful Realm and Itô Jakuchû's Artistry

SHIMIZU YOSHIAKI
Princeton University, Emeritus
Multiple Itô Jakuchûs (1716–1800)

DISCUSSION

Lunch Break

Session 2: Jakuchû Inside Out: The Particulars of a Masterpiece 2:00 pm

YUKIO LIPPIT
Harvard University
Introduction and moderator

JENNIFER PERRY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ANDREW HARE
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
It’s More Than a Picture: The Structure of a Japanese Painting

OKA YASUHIRO
Oka Bokkôdô Conservation Studio
The Conservation of Colorful Realm

HAYAKAWA YASUHIRO
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
The Pigments of Colorful Realm

SHIRONO SEIJI
National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
The Photography of Colorful Realm

PANEL Conservation and Pigment Analysis in Japanese Painting Andrew Hare, Hayakawa Yasuhiro, Oka Yasuhiro, Jennifer Perry, Shirono Seiji

The Trustees of the National Gallery of Art and the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, are grateful to the Anne van Biema Endowment Fund, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Japan Foundation, and the Starr Foundation for making this conference possible.

This conference is held on the occasion of the exhibitions Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird and Flower Paintings by Itô Jakuchû (1716–1800) (March 30–April 29, 2012) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (March 24–June 17, 2012) and Masters of Mercy: Buddha’s Amazing Disciples (March 10–July 8, 2012) at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Free and open to the public; no registration necessary.