Traditions unbound : groundbreaking painters of eighteenth-century Kyoto
Entry/Object ID
N7353.5.T73
Description
Focuses on the work of eight innovative painters who broke new ground in Japanese art. Released from the repressive constraints of the shogunate in Edo and inspired by a new merchant market, they created sometimes radical work that expressed the new freedom enjoyed in the thriving eighteenth-century arts scene of Kyoto.