• Elizabeth Sharf

Gallery Talk: Elizabeth Sharf on the Japanese Collection

Elizabeth Sharf, a visiting scholar in UC Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies, offers a tour of Ink, Paper, Silk illustrating the breadth and depth of the museum’s important collection of Japanese art. Highlights will include Nagasawa Rosetsu’s engaging Children Playing with an Elephant, Okamoto Shuki’s lyrical White Swallows by a Waterfall, and examples of Obaku calligraphy—seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Zen-inspired calligraphy created by monks who came to Japan from China.