Studio: international art (73.1918)

Studio- Talk

MISS ELIZABETH STEWART
MINIATURE BY WILLIAM J. WHITTEMORE

(Pennsylvania Academy')

Two or three of the galleries were given over
to the First Exhibition of work done at Chester
Springs, the summer school of the Pennsylvania
Academy, sketches of the landscape in that
region in oil and water-colour. The school,
opened for the first time this year in the old
buildings which were formerly headquarters of
General Washington's army, had an average
attendance of about ninety students, working
under guidance of members of the Academy's
teaching corps. E. C.

TOKYO.—An art museum is to be
established on Koyasan in the near
future. A committee of eight from
the Imperial University of Tokyo,
headed by Dr. Kuroita and Mr. Ogino, has
begun investigating the treasures of the temples
for the purpose of preparing, as a preliminary
work for the museum, a complete catalogue of
the treasures of all the Koyasan temples. An
extensive piece of ground close to the Kondo,
the chief sanctuary among these temples, has
been chosen for the site of the museum. The
ground is to have a thick border of a grove of
Koya-maki, a species of pine-tree peculiar to
the mountain and having the power to resist fire.
In its general plan the building is to be modelled
after the art museum of Nikko, and is to be so
constructed as to show to the best advantage
certain sculptures and paintings which are
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representatively important among the treasures
of the time-honoured monastery.

Koyasan is the name of a mountain not far
from Nara, the ancient capital of Japan. The
name, however, usually stands for the monastery
situated on the table-land of Koyasan, nearly
3000 ft. above sea-level, which is surrounded
by two rows of peaks, eight in each row,
representing the petals of a lotus flower, upon
which Buddhistic deities are seated. Koyasan
is the greatest Buddhist monastery in Japan,
having been founded in a.d. 816 by Kobo

MISS JANE L. EVERETT
MINIATURE BY LAURA COOMBS HILLS

(Pennsylvania Academy")

Daishi (774-834), the most famous of all
Japanese Buddhist saints, and noted equally as
preacher, painter, sculptor, and calligraphist.
At one time the monastery had more than
two thousand temples attached to it, but only
about a hundred of them now remain, though
the monastery still has thousands of tributary
temples all over Japan, and the mausoleum of
Kobo Daishi on Koyasan still draws annually
tens of thousands of pilgrims from all parts of
the empire. For nearly 1100 years women
were forbidden to " defile " the sacred place ;
it was only about forty-five years ago that