Main Building
The three Japanese galleries on the second floor will be installed with paintings, sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, and metalwork acquired over the past five years. Included is a magnificent early 17th-century lacquered writing box with a design of a deer in autumn, a recent gift of the Friends of the Museum. It is attributed to Honami Koetsu (1558-1637), a famed calligrapher, sword connoisseur, potter, tea master, lacquer designer and founder of an artists colony. A poem-scroll by Koetsu is also on view along with other important calligraphies.