September 7th -11th, 2009, 14:00-17:00, Villa Schoenberg, Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15, 8002-Zurich, Switzerland
The Section for East Asian Art History at the University of Zurich is pleased to announce a workshop in reading Japanese inscriptions (kuzushiji), specifically those on works of art, on, for example, narrative handscrolls, paintings, and woodblock printed books and sheets/p>
The workshop is [...]

In Zürich befindet sich eine der grössten und bedeutendsten Surimono-Sammlungen Europas. Die Stadt verdankt diese Kollektion exquisiter japanischer Farbholzschnitte Marino Lusy (1880–1954), welcher sie dem Museum für Gestaltung Zürich vermachte. Seit 2005 befindet sich die Sammlung als Dauerleihgabe im Museum Rietberg Zürich. 
Biographisches
Geboren wurde Marino Lusy am 28. Dezember 1880 in Triest, seine Familie stammte ursprünglich [...]

Subject
Surimono, literally, “printed thing,” emerged as a special form of deluxeJapanese woodblock print in the mid-eighteenth century. Unlike most woodblock prints, surimono were not produced commercially but were instead printed in small editions for private use. 

Surimono were frequently distributed as greeting cards for the New Year or for other special occasions. The combination of [...]

How long have you been involved with the Lusy surimono project and in what capacity? 
Beginning six or seven years ago, Professor Hideyuki Iwata of Atomi University in Tokyo and I began to do research on surimono collections in the USA and Europe, with a focus on actor prints. We had heard of the surimono collection [...]