Tenryuji/A
Artist
Ramona Sakiestewa
(American, born 1948)
Date1985
Mediumwool
Dimensions64 x 44 in. (111.8 x 162.6 cm)
ClassificationsTextile
Credit LineGift of Burt and Jane Berman, 2009
Object number2009.45.3
DescriptionVertical wool tapestry in three shades of green with a bright pink stripe at center, six rows of broken green lines at top left, and six pink lines rising vertically from bottom left.eMuseum Notes
During a trip to Kyoto, Japan in the late 1980s, the artist had a private tour of Tenryu-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple founded in 1339. After seeing the temple and its extensive gardens, she and her friends sat by a pond admiring the varied green of the trees and the pink azalea blossoms. Her experience inspired this weaving, in a vertical scroll format, with six green bars representing fundamental energies from the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the I Ching (Book of Changes) and its influence in Japan.
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