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Junichi Wajda "Sesshu Gardens"
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
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薈田純一
This exhibition features Junichi Wajda's series of photographs of Sesshu Gardens.
Sesshu, a Zen priest from the medieval Muromachi Period, was the most prominent Japanese master of ink and wash painting who left about 50 authentic paintings, including 6 National Treasures of Japan. But his achievement was not only in painting but created Zen Japanese gardens with an innovative ingenuity towards the method of “Karesansui,” leading to high-minded and graceful gardens. However, these gardens do not have any written historical evidence of Sesshu being the creator.
It is said that Sesshu Gardens are difficult as his paintings are. It's tremendous boundlessness that makes us hard to comprehend. It may be because we do not share the same spatial recognition as the people from the Muromachi period, but Sesshu Gardens are puzzling because it inquires us about our “Orientation,” where did you come from, what we are, and where we are you going from here?
Sesshu, a Zen priest from the medieval Muromachi Period, was the most prominent Japanese master of ink and wash painting who left about 50 authentic paintings, including 6 National Treasures of Japan. But his achievement was not only in painting but created Zen Japanese gardens with an innovative ingenuity towards the method of “Karesansui,” leading to high-minded and graceful gardens. However, these gardens do not have any written historical evidence of Sesshu being the creator.
It is said that Sesshu Gardens are difficult as his paintings are. It's tremendous boundlessness that makes us hard to comprehend. It may be because we do not share the same spatial recognition as the people from the Muromachi period, but Sesshu Gardens are puzzling because it inquires us about our “Orientation,” where did you come from, what we are, and where we are you going from here?
Schedule | Nov 15 (Tue) 2022-Nov 20 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Yokohama Civic Art Gallery | ||||
| Location | 26-1 Miyazaki-cho, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 220-0031 | ||||
| Access | 10 minute walk from the South 1 exit of Sakuragicho Station on the JR Negishi or Blue line, 8 minute walk from Hinodecho Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 045-315-2828 | ||||
| Related images | Click on the image to enlarge it |
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