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Dancing Crowd, stoneware vessel with resist-applied motifs over iron red ground, by Taimei Morino (b. 1934), 1985, height 36.7cm. Museum No. FE.7-1991 CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CERAMICS

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
16 May - 27 August 2001
Rikka Shimputai by Sen'ei Ikenobo. Copyright Ikenobo Headquarters, Kyoto

WEDNESDAY LATE VIEW - A TASTE OF JAPAN

Ground Floor Galleries
16 May 2001, 18.30-22.00 (Museum open from 10.00)
Fumihiko Maki, Hillside Terrace, Phase VI. Copyright: Shinkenchiku-sha

THE ARCHITECTURE OF FUMIHIKO MAKI: MODERNITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCENERY - MAJOR DISPLAY

Henry Cole Wing, Level 3
17 May - 22 July 2001

Rain in Ancient Woodland, black stoneware, by Satoru Hoshino (b. 1945), 1999, height 190 x diameter 400cm, photograph by Guy Vanbelleghem

RAIN IN ANCIENT WOODLAND BY SATORU HOSHINO

Milburns Restaurant Foyer
5 June - 1 July 2001

Complex braid made on a Dai Marudai, by Jacqui Carey. Image courtesy of Jacqui Carey

DROP-IN DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMME

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
Saturday and Sunday afternoons throughout August, 14.00-17.00
Tanchu Terayama (b. 1937) writing a Zen circle (enso)

TRACES OF NO-MIND: JAPANESE ZEN CALLIGRAPHY

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
1 September - 7 November 2001

View of the Port of Uraga in Sagami Province, woodblock fan print, by Hiroshige I (1797-1858), 1843-1847, width 28.4cm. Museum No. E.12071-1886

HIROSHIGE FAN PRINTS

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
5 September - 7 November 2001

Mounted Presentation Sword given to Sir Harry Parkes, gold lacquer with ray-skin and solid gold fittings, dated 1871, length 96.5cm. Museum No. M.13-1949

THE JAPANESE SWORD: THE SOUL OF THE SAMURAI

Gallery 129
19 September 2001 - 3 March 2002

Naoya Hatakeyama, Japanese, b.1958. River series, 1993-1996. Photographer's copyright.

OUT OF JAPAN - MAJOR AUTUMN EXHIBITION

The Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A
20 September 2001 - February 2002

Sembazuru (1000 cranes origami) and ema (pictorial votive offerings) at the Hanazono Inari Jinja, Tokyo. Photograph by Gregory Irvine

JAPAN 2001 WEEK

Various locations (subject to confirmation)
Starting Saturday 20 October for duration of October half-term week
Performance by J-ART, Osaka-based art group

J-ART

Main Entrance and Ground Floor Galleries (subject to confirmation)
Sunday 21 October 2001
Three-legged table, carved and lacquered wood, 16th century, photograph by courtesy of the Kamakura-bori Artists Association

KAMAKURA-BORI: 500 YEARS OF JAPANESE LACQUERED WOOD-CARVING

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
14 November 2001 - 13 February 2002
Green Waves, kimono of plain weave hand-spun floss silk with yuzen resist-dyed patterning, by Kunihiko Moriguchi (b. 1941), 1973, height 162cm. Museum No. FE.420-1992

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE TEXTILES

Gallery 98
From January 2002
No robe by Yamaguchi Yasujiro (b.1904) in action in a performance of the play Oeyama.

WOVEN DRAMAS: COSTUMES FOR THE NO THEATRE BY YAMAGUCHI YASUJIRO

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
20 February - 31 March 2002
No mask of Shakumi by Suzuki Nojin (b.1928), 1985. FE.3-1994. Carved and painted wood. 21.4 x 14.5cm. The mask is used to portray a grief-stricken woman.

THE SPIRIT OF TRANSFORMATION:
THE NO MASKS OF SUZUKI NOJIN

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
20 February - 31 March 2002
Plans for installation of Acts of Renewal

ACTS OF RENEWAL:
JAPANESE ART RE-INTERPRETED

Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
20 February - 31 March 2002
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