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• Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Museum Opening for Jin Kuwabara

  • Start
    Wednesday, February 01, 2012
  •  
    10:00 AM (UTC+09:00)
  • End
    Wednesday, February 29, 2012
  •  
    5:00 PM (UTC+09:00)
  • Location
    Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum

  2012 Winter Public Opening of
  the Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum

  The Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum, Japan’s first museum exclusively dedicated to netsuke, is proud to announce that its winter public opening has been scheduled for the month of February, 2012.

  The museum holds approximately 2,500 netsuke pieces dating from the Edo period to the present and exhibits 400 selected pieces to the public four times a year. It is located near Nijo Castle, in a remodeled samurai residence that has preserved the stateliness of the original residence.

  As this season’s special exhibition, the museum features the works of Jin KUWABARA, producing the work pieces using animals, sea creatures, insects and plants as his motifs.  Born in 1956 in Gunma Prefecture, he began to carve ivory at a company he was working for and started netsuke production since 1997. We are sure that you will enjoy KUWABARA’s world of netsuke created with careful observation in order to pursue the realities in his works.

  Wednesday, February 1 to Wednesday, February 29, 2012

  TIME 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Last admission 4:30 p.m.)
  PLACE 46-1 Mibukayougosho-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8811, Japan
  (On the east side of the Mibu-dera Temple)
  Phone: 075-802-7000

  ADMISSION (inclusive of consumption tax)
  Adult ： ¥ 1,200
  Student ： ¥ 600 (Jr. & Sr. high school)
  *(Student ID required.)

  * Children at elementary school age and below are not allowed in the museum.
  * Photography is prohibited within the museum.
  * No parking space is available. (Please use public transportation utilities.)

  Website: http://www.netsukekan.jp

  Website in English: http://www.netsukekan.jp/english/

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• SoCA Meeting in Los Angeles

  • When
    Sunday, February 26, 2012
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MST)
  • Location
    Loyola Marymount University, William H. Hannon Library, located at One LMU Drive

  Dear Chapter Members and Guests,
  
  Our INS SoCA Chapter will be having a meeting this Sunday, Feb. 26, from High Noon to 3PM, at Loyola Marymount University, at the William H. Hannon Library, located at One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659,
  
  This will be a very special meeting, where we will be able to see, and discuss, the Kinsey Contemporary Netsuke Collection, and Contemporary Netsuke, in general.  Richard Silverman, our very own INS Chapter's world class authority on Contemporary Netsuke will be our lecturer, and Ms. Cynthia Becht, Head, Archives and Special Collections of LMU's William H. Hannon Library, will be our Host.  Please bring white gloves if you have them; if you don't, there should be enough in supply.
  
  Sorry for the later than usual notice, but the access details were a bit tricky, due to LMU being on Spring Break
   - remember Spring Break?
  - I suspect that this looks harder than it really will be . . . .
  
  Here's what you need to know, to gain access,
  after you figure out how to get to the LMU Campus and the William H. Hannon Library on the LMU Campus:
   - this link may help those who use Google Maps   http://maps.google.com/
   - paste the link below into your Browser,
  or go on Google Maps and type
  "LMU William H. Hannon Library," and that should also do the trick: 
  
  http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=LMU%27s+William+H.+Hannon+Library&hl=en&cid=1711250124143114348
  
  - The front door of the William H. Hannon Library should be open;.
  - An LMU Public Safety Officer will be on guard at this front door to let only attendees to our INS SoCA Chapter Meeting inside.
  - Once inside, please take the elevators or stairs up two floors to the top (third) floor.
  - The Von der Ahe Suite will be open; that is where we will be meeting.
  - Both Ms. Becht and I will be on the third floor, awaiting your arrival.
  
  I am copying Ms. Becht with this notice, to make sure that I understand these instructions correctly and have explained them understandably.
  
  I sincerely hope that all of you can make it to the meeting this Sunday.  If I have missed anybody by cutting and pasting the email list once too often, please let them, and me, know!
   
  with Kindest Regards,
  David
  
  David S. White
  INS SoCA Chapter Chair
  12401 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 200
  Los Angeles CA 90025-1089
  dsw90049@gmail.com
  O: 310-571-0300
  F: 310-571-0707
  C: 310-721-7345

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