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...spanned 250 years and produced some of the finest decorative art Japan-or the world at large-has seen, its members were few and their identity often vague. Its founder was Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637). In 1615, a warlord gave Koetsu some land in the mountains around Kyoto. The artist laid out a village there: papermakers, dyers, weavers, calligraphers, lacquer masters and painters settled in it, with Koetsu presiding over them all. The collaborations that followed make it excruciatingly hard to determine which artist did what painting; Koetsu's style is almost indistinguishable from the early manner...
Korin, it seems, was one of those exquisitely chic and talented spendthrifts whom the Japanese remember with fond envy. The son of a wealthy artist-merchant in Kyoto, he dissipated a fortune by such gestures as wrapping his box lunch for a cherry blossom-viewing picnic in costly gold-leafed and painted bamboo sheaths, then nonchalantly flinging them away into the river. But he was no dilettante. Korin's work embraced most mediums, even the decoration of plates, on which he collaborated with his brother Ogata Kenzan to produce works like the hexagonal iron-brown dish bearing a figure...
...such artists as Joan Miro whose child-like graphic form went for $450. George Rickey whose kinetic sculpture of coiled wires sold for $1100, and Richard Anuskiewicz whose optical color patterns of acrylic on board brought $2350. Harvard's artists were represented by Toshi Katayama's silkscreen from the Kyoto Series selling for $175 and a color polaroid of toys and toothbrush by photographer Fred Brink...
Killing macaques is against Japan's game laws, but some rascally beasts in Kyoto almost lost their hides after they invaded several souvenir shops and stole chocolates. The shopkeepers set up a vigilante organization to hunt them down. Some local scientists persuaded a group of visiting Americans to open a monkey park of their own, however, and so 124 of the animals were shipped to Laredo, Texas...
...stream of delegations, mostly of young people, called at the Israeli embassy in Tokyo to apologize. Kyoto University President Toshio Maeda, summoned to the Ministry of Education, bowed low to express regret and admit that he was "at a loss how to apologize to the nation for the fact that two of the three culprits have been students at our university." Education Minister Saburo Takami, in turn, apologized for shortcomings in the educational system, while Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda spoke of the dishonor to the nation...