The Elegance of Hosokawa : Tradition of a Samurai family / Edited by Bettina Zorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zorn, Bettina, editor.

Weltmuseum Wien (Austria), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hosokawa family--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Hosokawa family.

Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.

Art, Japanese.

Art, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Japanese--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

Material culture--Japan--Exhibitions.

Material culture.

Art, Japanese--Edo period.

Art, Japanese--Themes, motives.

Art--Private collections.

Art museums.

Japan.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

146 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

München : Hirmer, 2019.

Summary:

Members of the Daimy? Hosokawa family served the shogun from the Muromachi Period (1333?1568) as samurai. But the Hosokawa achieved fame not only for their success as warriors. As patrons of the arts and artists across the centuries, they enlarged and cared for an exclusive collection which this volume presents through exquisite pieces.0The Hosokawa name stands not only for military achievements but also for famous poets, scholars and artists whose passion lay in particular in N? theatre and the tea ceremony. It is a passion that still applies today. Continuing the tradition, Hosokawa Morihiro, a former Prime Minister of Japan, has devoted himself since his retirement from politics to the creation of tea ceramics and calligraphy.0Through some 85 magnificent objects, including weapons, splendid armour, China-ink drawings and paintings, ceramics and lacquer work as well as theatre masks and costumes, the volume reveals the glittering panorama of a samurai family between martial elitism and artistry.00Exhibition: Weltmuseum Wien, Austria (04.04. - 16.07.2019).

Contents:

Essays. The history of the Hosokawa family / Takeshi Kaneko

Looking for traces of the Hosokawa family at The Weltmuseum Wien / Bettina Zorn

Chastity and loyalty

Gracia Hosokawa as role model for elistist Catholicism / Irene Suchy

Catalogue. Arms and armour / Taishū Komatsu

Cat. nos. 101-128

The collection of three generations of the Hosokawa family / Takeshi Kaneko

Cat. nos. 201-234

Nō theatre and tea ceremony utensils / Eriko Sasaki

Cat. nos. 301-324.

Notes:

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Weltmuseum Wien, April 4-July 16, 2019.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Weltmuseum Wien, Wien, April 4 - July 16, 2019.

ISBN:

9783777433523

3777433527

OCLC:

1114280418