Japan: Living with the Elements - Los AngelesNEW

JAPAN : LIVING WITH THE ELEMENTS (July 23 〜　September 25)

Date
Saturday, September 3, 2:00-5:00PM

Schedule
2:00-3:00 Exhibition viewing with Koto performance
3:00-3:30 Origami Cranes: Symbols of Peace and Hope (Meher McArthur)
3:30-3:45 Tsugaru Syamisen (Naoki Atkins)
3:45- Movie: Kwaidan-Story of Hoichi (Masaki Kobayashi)

For events on Sept 3, please email rsvp@prs.org

PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: 323-663-2167
e-mail:info@prs.org

The daily hours for viewing of the collection are Mon-Thu, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
If you wish to make an appointment for other times, you can email or call.

An exhibition featuring woodblock prints, paintings, hangings, photographs, and books, from the collection of the PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

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This is an invitation for the exhibition, "Japan: Living with the
Elements" at the Philosophical Research Society nearby Griffith
observatory.

Manly P. Hall, the founder of the Philosophical Research Society, visited Japan several times. The first time was in 1923, just after a big earthquake in Tokyo. At this time he took photographs of the damage and also made enduring friendships with art dealers, from whom he continued to collect Japanese paintings, woodblock prints, religious items, books and photographs. He was influenced by Amida worship, Shingon, Zen and Shinto religion and also appreciated Japan's love of beauty as expressed through its arts and crafts. His collection number close to 500 art and religious objects and numerous books.

Japan: Living with the Elements is an art exhibition showcasing paintings, woodblocks, photographs and books from this collection, belonging to 19th and early 20th C. It is curated by Debashish Banerji, an art historian who teaches Asian art history at Pasadena City College and is a Dean at the Philosophical Research Society's online university.

The exhibition is meant to raise awareness of Japan's relationship with nature in the wake of recent devastating earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear fallout, and to collect donations to benefit the disaster
victims of Japan. An animistic web makes up the Japanese imaginary, a relationship with the elements existing not only outside but inside the human and his actions. Reeling under fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, wars, nuclear disasters and other natural and man-made calamities, Japan has been incapacitated many times, but has repeatedly risen like daruma, the round-bottomed bodhisattva which
rights itself however pushed.

In the wake of yet another disaster, this exhibition is a tribute to the spirit of the Japanese people.