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Bakusen Tsuchida, 'Oharame Women Peddlers' (Partial) (1915), Yamatane Museum of Art [Cherry Blossom Art]
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Sakura, Sakura, Sakura 2020 – Flower Viewing at the Museum!

For the first time since 2018, the Yamatane Museum of Art is holding a special thematic exhibition, ‘Sakura, Sakura, Sakura 2020 – Flower Viewing at the Museum!’, showcasing fifty of their most famous pieces of cherry blossom art. [Header image: Okuda Genso, ‘Oirase Ravine: Spring’ (1987). Featured image: Bakusen Tsuchida, ‘Oharame Women Peddlers’ (Detail) (1915). Both Yamatane Museum […]

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‘Rene Lalique - Modernity and Elegance’ at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum: Mantlepiece Lamp Faun (detail), 1931, Mould-pressed clear glass, satiné 
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‘René Lalique – Modernity and Elegance’ at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Some of the best Art Deco glassware in the world can currently be enjoyed in Tokyo at an exhibition of the works of Rene Lalique (1860-1945), on display at the city’s most elegant art gallery, the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in Meguro.  Feature image: Mantlepiece Lamp Faun (detail), 1931, Mould-pressed clear glass, satiné Header image: Table […]

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