2013 / Clark Center’s Urushi exhibition closing, Dec. 14
Simplicity and Surprise: The Utilitarian Beauty of Japanese Lacquerware September 1 – December 14, 2013 Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture in Hanford, Calif. Durable and elegantly beautiful, Japanese lacquerware or Urushi was quite unlike anything that Western traders in the 16th century had ever encountered. Europeans who could afford the expensive ware collected […]