I CILIEGI IN FIORE

It is the beginning of spring. A soft cloud in the faint shades of white and pink spreads magically over all of Japan. Every year, the cherry blossom is celebrated with the ancestral ritual of hanami: a great feast to be spent under the flowering trees in the company of family and friends, to contemplate the awakening of nature and meditate on the impermanence of things along the path to wisdom. The fleeting intensity of that moment shines in the tables collected here by Anne Sefrioui: over seventy works by masters of Japanese printmaking, from Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Keibun, Bairei, and Hasui.