Spring is Here

The first sighting of emerging flowers creates mounting excitement in Japan, culminating in countrywide communal revelry as spring hits full bloom. This exhibition is a reminder that we all need beautiful things to experience and to share. Whether inspired to reference spring directly as in Yako Hodo’s tray Early Spring and Tanioka Aiko’s Springtime Flower Basket, or through the seasonal associations with fertility, growth, and nature’s efflorescence seen in Tanabe Mitsuko’s Cultivating Life and Lance Letscher’s Robin’s Egg, images and thoughts of hope and the possibilities of renewal are what guided this selection.