Orientations VOL 50 No.6 Nov/Dec 2019

This issue features articles covering a number of Asian regions, namely China, Japan, Korea, India and Myanmar. The first article, by Quanyu Wang, Yi Chen and Rongyu Su, is a groundbreaking study of some of the Houma bronzes in The British Museum. In 2018, a scientific examination was made of these bronzes, including microscopy and X-radiography, in order to better understand their construction in relation to the pattern-block method of production. The article details the sometimes surprising results.

Extending Enlightenment: Buddhist Art of Meiji and Edo Japan by Katherine Anne Paul highlights works from the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama.

FEATURES
Quanyu Wang, Yi Chen and Rongyu Su. Houma Bronzes in The British Museum: A Technical Study
Katherine Anne Paul. Extending Enlightenment: Buddhist Art of Meiji and Edo Japan
Chin-Sung Chang. The Charming Smile of the Compassionate Bodhisattva: A Recently Rediscovered Korean Standing Figure of Avalokiteśvara
Rachel Parikh. The Thrill and the Peril: The Royal Hunt in India at the Harvard Art Museums
Cristophe Munier-Gaillard. Depictions of Portuguese in Burmese Buddhist Murals
Kristina Kleutghen. Exotic Medicine: How Ignatius Sichelbarth's Painting of a Musk Deer Appeared in the Philosophical Transactions
Hugh Moss. By Imperial Design
Kim Inhye. Umber and Blue: The Art of Yun Hyong-keun

REVIEWS
Mary Ann Rogers. ‘Contemporary Landscapes: Li Huayi’ at Honolulu Museum of Art
Yeewan Koon. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences

Softcover / 8.25" X 11.25" / 136 pages