The Argonaut

Issue date: 9/28/06 Section: Entertainment

NDNU's Wiegand Gallery opened its first exhibition for the 2006-2007 school year on Sept. 20.

It is a traveling exhibit, provided by University of Colorado at Boulder, called "From Cherry Blossoms to Snow Gardens: the Floating World of Traditional Japanese Prints."

The exhibit includes 35 Japanese prints from the 19th Century featuring artists, Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Katsushika Hokusai. The prints depict the every day life - from traveling across the country side to trading in the city - in the city of Edo, which is now present day Tokyo.

Robert Poplack, director of Wiegand Gallery, chose this exhibit "to tie into the School of Arts and Humanities' yearlong study of Japanese history," he said, with the school's focus on the World War II internment.

But Poplack made the decision, to at least choose an exhibition that honored Japanese history.

"From Cherry Blossoms to Snow Gardens: the Floating World of Traditional Japanese Prints" will be at Wiegand until Nov. 4. The gallery hours are from noon until 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free.

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