Japanese Exihition in New York City

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Holland Cotter, Art Review | '5,000 Years of Japanese Art': Cleaning Out
Closets, Reuniting Old Friends. New York Times, Dec. 18, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18packard.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Japan%20museum%20packard&st=cse

(A) My comment: Here is the web page for

Special Exhibitions | 5,000 Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the
Packard Collection; December 17, 2009–June 6, 2010. The Sackler Wing
Galleries for the Arts of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={ED61A36E-C1C2-4C15-A16F-5EE3F3702912}

(B) Note for the text as well as captions of photographs in the print:
(1) KANO Sansetsu 狩野 山雪 (1589-1651)> The Old Plum 老梅図
his son KANO Eino 狩野 永納 (1631-1697)
(2) globalist (n): "one that favors or advocates globalism"
globalism (n): "policy or system favoring or promoting globalization"
(3) bump (n): "a somewhat forceful, sudden, thudding, or jolting blow or
impact: the action, the effect, or the noise of such a blow  <the ~ of a
chestnut falling>"
(4) Jomon 縄文
(5) flange (vt): "to furnish with a flange"
           (n): "a spreading out
(6) lip (n): "the edge or margin of a hollow vessel or cavity (as a cup,
bell, or crater)"

For "flanged lip," see the photograph of a vessel in the lower left corner
of
Jōmon period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomon

(7) haniwa (埴輪)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haniwa
(8) kannon 觀音 (Sanskrit: Avalokiteśvara)
(9) Tsubaki Chinzan 椿 椿山 (1801-1854)

tsubaki 椿 (also written as 山茶 in Japan, is Camellia japonica)

(10) Song of Everlasting Sorrow 長恨歌
(11) TOSA Mitsunobu 土佐 光信 (1434-1525) > Bamboo in the Four Seasons 四季
の竹
(12) stalk (n): "the main stem of herbaceous plant often with its dependent
parts (as leaves, twigs, fruit)  <a ~ of wheat>"

(13) GION Nankai 祗園 南海 (1677-1751)
(14) rough-and-ready (adj): "of a thing: lacking finish or polish but good
enough for a temporary or limited purpose: MAKESHIFT"
(15) votive (adj) (both this adjective and the noun "vow" are derived from
Latin noun "votum" and verb "vovere"): "offered or erected in fulfillment of
a vow and often in gratitude for deliverance from distress"
(16) flyspeck (n): "a speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; broadly
: any insignificant dot"
              (vt): "to soil with flyspecks"

English definitions (2), (3), (5), (6), (12), (15) and (16) are from Webster
(3rd ed, 1961).

(17) SAKAI Hoitsu 酒井 抱一 (1761-1828)
(18) KITAGAWA Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 (ca. 1753-1806)
(19) Oribe ware 織部焼 (pronounced as "oribe yaki") (古田 織部の指導で創始;
1605年-1624年美濃地方で生産された陶器。美濃焼の一種)
(20) IKE Gyokuran 池 玉蘭 (Ike no Taiga 池 大雅 (1723–1776) who went by the
art-name Gyokuran)

(C) Note for the online accompanying Slide Show:
(1) ITO Jakuchu 伊藤 若冲(1716-1800)
(2) KAIGETSUDO Dohan 懐月堂 度繁 (生没年不詳、江戸時代中期の浮世絵師)

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