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Masters of Mercy

Clip: 4/20/2012 | 6m 43s

Curator James Ulak talks about Buddhism and Japanese artist Kazunobu's paintings.

Between 1854 and 1863, Japanese artist Kano Kazunobu (1816-1863) created a series of 100 paintings of the Buddha's 500 disciples. Watch our interview about Buddhism and Kazunobu's paintings with James Ulak, senior curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

04/20/2012 | Rating NR

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