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JAPANESE BASKETS AND SCULPTURE IN THE COTSEN COLLECTION

These works comprise the largest public collection of Japanese bamboo art in the world. Masters of Bamboo approaches the collection’s masterworks in an entirely new way; the exhibition is organized around the network of master- disciple relationships through which makers of these baskets are interconnected. The exhibition features one artwork each by 76 bamboo artists representing most of the major lineages in the three key geographic regions­Western Japan, focused in Osaka and Kyoto; Eastern Japan, focused mainly in Tochigi, Niigata, and Tokyo prefectures; and Kyushu, focused primarily in Oita prefecture­over the past 150 years. Many of the artworks in the exhibition are on view publicly for the first time.

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	Gallery Two Gallery One | Gallery Three Gallery One | Gallery Three
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