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Rare Japanese scrolls go on display for first time outside Japan

(26 Mar 2012) 1. Wide exterior of National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC with "Colourful Realm" banner 2. Interior of gallery - 15 Japanese scrolls hung on a wall 3. Interior of gallery - Sakyamuni Triptych, part of a 30-scroll set of paintings from the 1700s 4. Mid view of three scrolls "Old Pine Tree with Phoenix," "Nandina and Rooster" and "Autumn Millet and Sparrows" 5. Close view detail of scroll called "Nandina and Rooster" 6. Pan close view of scroll called "Chickens" 7. Set-up of Yukio Lippit, Professor of Japanese Art, Harvard University: 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukio Lippit, Professor of Japanese Art, Harvard University: "When you stand in the exhibition space, in the immersive space of "Colourful Realm," in combination with the Buddhist Triptych, you realise that there is a setting, a maison-sen, of the natural world as an audience for a sermon by the Buddha. So, this is a sermon for the ages." 9. Man looking at scroll 10. Pan from the Sakyamuni Triptych to gallery with scrolls 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukio Lippit, Professor of Japanese Art, Harvard University: "What one is seeing from the front, the hues and the sheens, the different grades of transparency and opacity, is just as much a result of what is going on in the back of the painting as what's going on in front. And, what it does, it imbues the paintings with a certain sense of inner life, a kind of muted, glow or emanation and that's essentially a transposition of techniques used for Buddhist painting." 12. Close view tilt up of scroll named "Old Pine Tree and Peacock" 13. Close detail of scroll named "Plum Blossoms and Cranes" 14. Set-up of Aya Ota, Chief Curator - Imperial Collection Museum 15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Aya Ota, Chief Curator - Imperial Household Collection: "At the beginning of the Meiji period many Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines experienced difficult financial times during this change of government. They were also in need of much repair. Many temples and monasteries were forced to sell their treasured art. But if the paintings were just sold in the open market they could be lost or collections destroyed, and they wouldn't get as much money. So the monks figured out how to present these works to the Imperial household to make sure that the collection remained in Japan and preserved with care." 16. Various of scroll titled, "Fish" 17. Pull out to show entire gallery STORYLINE: One of Japan's cultural treasures, a 30-scroll set of paintings from the 1700s, is being shown together outside of Japan for the first time in a rare display in Washington. The exhibition at the National Gallery of Art coincides with the centennial of Japan's gift of three thousand cherry trees to the US as a symbol of friendship. The paintings of birds and flowers on silk, created more than 250 years ago by artist Ito Jakuchu, will go on view on Friday. The paintings, entitled "Colourful Realm of Living Beings," were donated to Japan's Imperial Household in 1889 and have been held by the world's oldest monarchy since. They are rarely exhibited, even in Japan. The nature scrolls are paired with paintings that evoke their religious context as Buddhist objects of worship. In the gallery representing the hall of the Buddhist Monastery, where the paintings originally hung, visitors will enter a vibrant collection of 30 scenes of nature including birds, insects, frogs and fish. Jakuchu retired from the family grocery business at the age of 40 in the middle of the 18th century. He devoted the next ten years to the scrolls and the study of Zen Buddhism. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...