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Manpukuya Mogumogu Illustrated Guide No. 3: Hara Rokuro
The manga-style illustrated commentary about artworks, artists and the museum by illustrator and former museum curator Manpukuya Mogumogu presents readers with a new angle from which to think about contemporary art.
Another showcase at the museum is the collection of traditional East Asian art called the “Hara Rokuro Collection.” Who was Hara Rokuro? The answer takes you back to the end of the Edo period.
No.3: Hara Rokuro
Hara Rokuro (1842-1933)
Born in Tajima Province (present-day Hyogo Prefecture) at the end of the Edo period, Rokuro participated as a samurai in the “Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians” movement to restore power to the emperor. He went on to become a businessman during the Meiji period and contributed to the development of the Japanese economy. His knickname was “Kankai.”
The Hara Rokuro Collection
At Hara Museum ARC, the Hara Rokuro Collection holds approximately 120 of the works of traditional art amassed by Rokuro Hara. These consist mainly of early-modern Japanese paintings, calligraphy, crafts and Chinese art.
Among them are the National Treasure “Celadon vase with long neck on globular body” which conveys the essence of Chinese ceramics; the Important Cultural Property “Woman Passing through a Reed Portiere,” a work that foreshadows the beautiful woman genre of Ukiyo-e; “Landscape of Yodo River,” a large scroll painting by Maruyama Okyo; and “Paintings used for wallpaper and fusuma (Japanese sliding door) at Nikko-in Mi’idera Temple” by Eitoku and other members of the Kano family.
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