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		•Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection March 25 - May 25, 2003
			This exhibit of 100 prints uses kabuki prints, courtesan imagery, depictions of children, landscapes, warrior prints, and high-end luxury prints to explore the Japanese popular culture of their time.
		•Osaka Prints I October 30, 2002 - January 12, 2003
			In 19th-century Osaka, printmakers focused almost exclusively on portraits of actors in current productions of the Kabuki theater, as this selection of prints illustrates.
		•Osaka Prints II January 15 - April 13, 2003
			The Kabuki theater of Osaka was the center of the city's cultural and intellectual life during the 19th century. Many of the actors identified in this selection of prints were learned men, accomplished in the literary arts.
		•Osaka Prints III April 16 - July 13, 2003
			The print designers of Osaka tended to become involved in all aspects of the production process, paying careful attention to color balance and to such effects as embossing. This selection of prints includes four by Hirosada, the leading print designer of the mid-19th century, who was also a publisher.
		•Classical Drama Rediscovered: The No Prints of Tsukioka Kogyo July 16 - October 19, 2003
			In contrast to the popular Kabuki theater of the 19th century, most of the plays of No theater were written in the 14th or 15th century and incorporated slow gestures, archaic speech, and emotion-filled dances, punctuated by long moments of stillness and silence. Since earlier printmakers had rarely depicted the No theater, Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927) was an innovator.
		•Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900): Master Woodblock Printer of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) October 22, 2003 - January 11, 2004
			Kunichika was the last great print designer for the followers of the popular Kabuki theater. Once criticized for his use of modern aniline-colored dyes and the lack of restraint in his compositions, today Kunichika is recognized as a major figure, who was able to modernize JapanŐs traditions at the time that Western culture was starting to flood into Tokyo.
		•Permanent collection
			The various artistic traditions of Asia are represented by works from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and India. This area of the collection is strongest in bronzes, ceramics, and works on paper, and includes several superb Chinese tomb figures and a fine group of 18th and 19th century Japanese woodblock prints.
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