“Painting Edo” at the Arnold Arboretum: Hydrangeas from ajisai Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 24 min 62 sec
✓ Published: 19-Aug-2020

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In this online talk, Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art, and Michael Dosmann, Arnold Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections, discuss the story around hydrangeas they discovered while viewing the exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection” together. nnIn Japan “ajisai” have been treasured since at least the 8th century, when they began to be celebrated in poetry. Rachel and Michael found evidence, both cultural and biological, of ev