Asia Week New York 2015: NYT

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Martha Schwendener, An Array of Artworks as Vast as a Continent. New York Times, Mar 13, 2015
www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/arts/ ... as-a-continent.html
("New York’s museums [and galleries] are filled with stellar exhibitions devoted to Asian art")

Note:
(a) Japanese ceramics
(i) photo legend: "The works featured in Asia Week New York galleries include contemporary ceramics by Kōji TODA 戶田 浩二 [1974-; in the photo: 'stoneware' owned by Princeton University Art Museum] that are part of the exhibition at Mika [gallery]."
(ii) text: "Joan Mirviss (39 East 78th Street) is featuring Japanese tsubo vessels, which started out as storage jars and whose simplicity became a vehicle for creative interpretation and reinterpretation."

Japanese English dictionary
* tsubo  壷【つぼ】 (n): "pot"
* kōsan 興産 【こうさん】 (n): “industry”
* gampi がんぴ; ガンピ 《雁皮》 (n) (1): “Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant); (2) (abbr[eviation]) (See 雁皮紙) paper made from the fibre of this plant”
* mitsumata ミツマタ 《三椏》 【みつまた】 (n): “Oriental paper bush (Edgeworthia chrysantha); mitsumata” (mitsu = 三; 椏 is used only in this circumstance)

(b) photo legend: "'Dust at Yushan, Westward,' by Mike Chuang, at the Taipei Cultural Center. Credit Collection of Mike Chuang"
(i) I suspect it is “dusk,” in lieu of “dust.” But I can not find the photo in the Web.
(ii) Mike CHUANG  莊 明景 (born in 942 in Taipei)

(c) "Ancient Worlds[:] For those craving gods and heroes, or creatures accompanying humans on their journeys into the afterlife, several galleries present such work. The Brussels dealer Gisèle Croës (showing at Gagosian, 976 Madison, at 76th Street) bills her gallery as 'Asian extreme,' and she usually delivers. This year her featured works are a large, fearsome Chinese bronze Bodhisattva in military gear from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and a more serene wooden Bodhisattva figure from the Song dynasty to the early Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)."

Gagosian gallery does not showcase either figure in its website.

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(d) "Modern and Contemporary[:] [I] Much of the contemporary art exhibited in Asia Week’s galleries involves recent translations of ancient traditions like calligraphy, scroll painting or ceramics. A dealer with a solid roundup of contemporary ink painting is M Sutherland (55 East 80th Street), including work by JIA Youfu 賈 又福 [1942- ], one of the best-known interpreters of the Song painting tradition. [II] At the Kang Collection (9 East 82nd Street), LIANG Quan 梁 銓 stains rice paper with tea, an update on devotional practice, while Minjung Kim applies a flame to rice paper and then colors it to achieve a bold effect. Kaikodo (74 East 79th Street) has something even more unusual: a photograph by Michael Cherney (whose Chinese name is Qiu Mai 秋麥 [American; 1969- ]) printed in ink and mounted as a hand scroll that invokes the 14th-century calligrapher Zhu Derun’s famous painting 'Primordial Chaos' (1349)."
(i) History. Kaikodō 懐古堂 (in Japanese pronunciation), undated
www.kaikodo.com/index.php/gallery/history
("Kaikodo, 'The Hall of Embracing Antiquity [or, nostalgia],' was the studio name in Kita-Kamakura [北鎌倉, a neighborhood in Kamakura, Kanagawa 神奈川県 鎌倉市] in Japan chosen during the late 1970s by Howard and Mary Ann Rogers for their growing personal collection of Chinese paintings, ceramics, and other works of art. Howard was then Professor of Chinese Art at Sophia University [上智大学; private Jesuit; 1913- ] in Tokyo while Mary Ann was a frequent lecturer at the University, as well as for the College Women’s Association of Japan on Chinese and Japanese art while at the same time serving as a Researcher at the Idemitsu Museum of Arts. In 1983 the Rogers established a company dedicated to the acquisition and sale of works of art of high aesthetic quality and art-historical interest and importance.  They naturally named their company Kaikodo.  Kaikodo rapidly became known to museum professionals in Japan and around the world as an important source for fine and rare Asian paintings and antiquities. In order to better serve its growing clientele of institutional and private clients, Kaikodo purchased a townhouse on the upper east side of New York and in 1996, following a more than year-long renovation, opened a gallery")
(A) College Women’s Association of Japan
www.cwaj.org/
(CWAJ; no Japanese name; "a not-for-profit volunteer organization of Japanese and non-Japanese women interested in education, cross-cultural exchange, and friendship")
(B) Idemitsu Museum of Arts  出光美術館
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idemitsu_Museum_of_Arts
(The museum was founded in 1966 and is administered as an incorporated foundation of "Idemitsu Kōsan Co, Ltd" 出光興産株式会社 [which refines crude and sells gasoline; founded by Sazō IDEMITSU 出光 佐三 in 1911])

* For definition of 興産, see Japanese English dictionary, at (a)(ii) above.
(ii) “Zhu Derun’s famous painting 'Primordial Chaos 浑沦图' (1349[; Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆])”
(A) ZHU Derun 朱 德润 (1294-1365; 元)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Derun
(B) 秋麥, New Primordial Chaos. Kaikodo
www.kaikodo.com/pdf/ESP 60.pdf
(2014; Photograph, ink on mitsumata washi paper; Mounted as a handscroll)

* For “mitsumata washi,” see washi  和紙
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washi
(commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub (Edgeworthia chrysantha) [qv], OR the paper mulberry; Washi is one of the UNESCO’s Intangible cultural heritage objects)

About 和紙, ja.wikipedia.org said its origin is debatable, whether it came from abroad or invented locally. In any event, its appearance in Japan was about a couple of centuries after 蔡倫.
* For definitions of gampi and mitsumata, see (a)(ii) above.
* The en.wikipedia.org uses “Wikstroemia sikokiana,” rather than “Diplomorpha sikokiana.”  The two are synonyms, interchangeable.
* Diplomorpha sikokiana. Japanese Treeflowers, Prof Summer's Web Garden, undated
treeflower.la.coocan.jp/Thymelaeaceae/Diplomorpha sikokiana/Diplomorpha sikokiana.htm
(distribution: Japan only)