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Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868) was a time of national isolation—and, curiously, booming artistic creation. Etsuko and Joe Price’s collection of more than 200 masterpieces from the era is among the world’s finest. At the collection’s core are screens, hanging scrolls, fans, and key paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), one of the most innovative and imaginative of Kyoto’s eighteenth-century painters. The accompanying catalogue features hundreds of images that pan the scope of this diverse and prolific era. Essays by leading scholars of Japanese painting and by Joe Price himself reveal the makings of his and his wife’s collection. Another, by architect Frank Gehry, highlights how the Prices’ relationships with architects—including Frank Lloyd Wright—have both influenced and been shaped by their love of Japanese art.
