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Mosaic Glass: A Feast of Colors

		In Japan, there is a long cylindrical candy called Kintaro ame with faces and other pictures at the center of it. If you stretched it, the even smaller face you might end up with would resemble those on these pieces of mosaic glass. This glass may be the ultimate example of the minute.
		Look closely at the face. Look at the way the bangs fall around the face, the beads surround the neck and the two white teeth are visible in the mouth.

Fashionable Everyday Items in Ancient Rome

The Roman Empire was a treasure house of blown glass. Glass, which had required so much time and skill, was irreversibly altered by the introduction of a tool to blow air inside of it. Thus, blown glass was created. This made glass something that anyone could attain and large quantities became available in every conceivable shape and color. Much of it was used to add a fashionable touch to each morning and evening in the form of a perfume bottle.

Glittering Cut Glass     By refracting rays of light, cut glass continually glitters. The cuts were performed in Rome, Persia and other Islamic countries, and the results reached as far as the Shoso-in in Nara, Japan.

In Comes Silver

Those who created glass could never have imagined the changes that were to occur over many years and the mysterious attraction that glass came to have. Iridescence must then have seemed like a nasty trick played on them by the gods.

Japanense Art Exhibition From the Miho Museum collection of Japanese art, 36 works, including a Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl and a seated statue of Bosatsu, have been selected for an exhibition to be held in the North Wing. (Changes in the exhibition may be made during the exhibition opens.) Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl, China, Song Dynasty (Important Cultural Property) Seated Bosatsu, late Heian Period (Important Art Object) From the Garden The weeping cherry trees on the other side of the tunnel leading to the museum are expected to bloom in mid- or late-April this year. Weeping cherry trees (mid to late April) Azalea (late April to early May) Fresh verdure (June)

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