Special Exhibition Flowers Bloom and Winds Blow: Nature Motifs in Classical Japanese Art

Flowers bursting in profusion; the wind scattering their petals .... People have long celebrated the delights of the natural world in poetry and song as projections of their innermost feelings. This exhibition introduces the elegant realms of classical literature, painting, and the decorative arts, through the wind, rain, and diverse marvels of the natural world depicted within them.