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Article: Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese master.(Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)(Brief Article)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Since 1913, devotees of the work of Hon'ami Koetsu gather in November at the temple in Takagamine outside Kyoto for tea to celebrate the life and work of this Renaissance man who was one of Japan's greatest and most versatile artists. Koetsu was highly regarded in his day for his work in just about every medium. His elegant and fluid calligraphy, reductive but shimmering paintings on fans and hand scrolls, his spare designs for lacquer, and his exquisite and fragile ceramics were rivaled only by his skill at the intricate tea ceremony, elaborate No theater, for which he chanted and published calligraphy of the libretti, and his memory for poems, many of which appear in his ...
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