Dr, Rosina Buckland, senior curator responsible for the Japanese collections at the National Museum of Scotland, will chart the contribution that a handful of Scots made to the formation of modern Japan and the extraordinary collection of Japanese art that Henry Dyer, known as “the father of Japanese engineering”, bequeathed to public collections, in particular the recently rediscovered 17th century handscroll ‘Pleasure of the East’: a 40-foot long depiction of a lively street scene in Edo (today’s Tokyo).
Our event celebrates the contributions made by a number of Scots to establishing the physical infrastructure of modern Japan, including Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1901), Richard Henry Brunton (1841–1901), William Burton (1856–99) and Henry Dyer (1848–1918).
To reserve your place visit Eventbrite page entitled ‘The Japanese Art of a Scottish Engineer’
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8939467187
This event is held in association with: Dovecot Studios, National Museum of Scotland and the Asia Scotland Institute