{"id":9141,"date":"2019-01-24T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp?p=9141"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T02:19:47","slug":"tokyo-national-museum-special-exhibition%e3%80%80unrivaled-calligraphy-yan-zhenqing-and-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/archives\/9141","title":{"rendered":"TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM SPECIAL EXHIBITION\u3000Unrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/facilities\/00001c00000000000002000000540041\">Tokyo National Museum<\/a> <\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2951-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2951-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_2951-480x360-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo National Museum Heisei Kan (Ueno Park) will hold a special exhibition,\u201cUnrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy\u201d from January 16 (Wednesday) to February 24 (Sun) in 2019 . <\/p>\n<p>During the Tang dynasty of China (618\u2013907), three great calligraphers\u2013Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, and Chu Suiliang\u2013perfected the style known as &#8220;standard script.&#8221; While inheriting the tradition they established, Yan Zhenqing (709\u2013785) succeeded in establishing his own style of calligraphy, which would have tremendous influence for ages to come. Bringing together exquisite works from collections in Japan and abroad, this exhibition will explore Yan Zhenqing and his work, its influence on future generations, and its reception in Japan.<\/p>\n<h2> General Information <\/h2>\n<table class=\"datatable\" style=\"height: 50px;\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody valign=\"top\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; text-valign: top;\" width=\"100px\"> Exhibition name <\/td>\n<td> Special exhibition \u201cUnrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy\u201d <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"> Period <\/td>\n<td> Wednesday, January 16 &#8211; Sunday, February 24, 2019 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"> Hours <\/td>\n<td>9:30 &#8211; 17:00, Fridays, Saturdays,until 21:00<br \/>\n(Last entry 30 minutes before closing) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"> Closed <\/td>\n<td> Mondays (Except for Monday, February 11) and Tuesday, February 12 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"> Venue <\/td>\n<td> Heiseikan, Tokyo National Museum (Ueno Park) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"> Admission fee <\/td>\n<td> General 1,600 yen (1,300 yen), college students 1,200 yen (900 yen), high school students 900 yen (600 yen) <\/p>\n<p>*Junior high school students and under: free<br \/>\n*Prices shown in parentheses indicate group (more than 20 persons) discount tickets.<br \/>\n*Persons with disabilities are admitted free with one accompanying person each (please present an ID at the ticket booth).<br \/>\n*Tickets to this exhibition include one admission to the regular exhibitions on the date of entry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"> Official site <\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/ganshinkei.jp\/english.html\">https:\/\/ganshinkei.jp\/english.html<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Article Provided by: <a href=\"https:\/\/home.ueno.kokosil.net\/en\/\">Kokosil Ueno<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/news\">See other exhibition information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo National Museum The Tokyo National Museum Heisei Kan (Ueno Park) will hold a special exhibition,\u201cUnrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy\u201d from January 16 (Wednesday) to February 24 (Sun) in 2019 . During the Tang dynasty of China (618\u2013907), three great calligraphers\u2013Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, and Chu Suiliang\u2013perfected the style known as &#8220;standard script.&#8221; While inheriting the tradition they established, Yan Zhenqing (709\u2013785) succeeded in establishing his own style of calligraphy, which would have tremendous influence for ages to come. Bringing together exquisite works from collections in Japan and abroad, this exhibition will explore Yan Zhenqing and his work, its influence on future generations, and its reception in Japan. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/archives\/9141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM SPECIAL EXHIBITION\u3000Unrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.culture.city.taito.lg.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}