Miho Museum will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in the year 2002. For this special event, we are proud to present the exhibition, Arts Treasured by the Hosokawa Clan: Selections from the Eisei-Bunko Museum Collection . Cormorant By Miyamoto Musashi Edo period     The Hosokawa clan of Higo was a daimyo family worth 500,000 koku starting in the Warring States period. From the first generation Fujitaka (Yusai), and the second generation Tadaoki (Sansai) on, the heads of the Hosokawa excelled in the literary and military arts, and in spite of various hardships, they overcame the difficulties and passed down their works of art to this day. In 1950, the sixteenth head of the Hosokawa clan established the Eisei-Bunko Museum as a foundation in Mejirodai of Tokyo to protect its cultural properties and prevent them from scattering and getting lost. The museum is known as a treasure house of art objects passed down for generations beginning in the Nanbokucho period. Court Lady Ceramic and pigments Tang dynasty Important Cultural Property     The present large-scale exhibition features approximately one hundred ninety objects including Chinese art, paintings, Calligraphy, tea utensils, applied arts, and four National Treasures and twenty Important Cultural Objects. Tea Bowl, known as “Dai-korai” Kohiki type Yi dynasty Kataginu with Design of a Daikon Radish and a Mallet Edo period Letter By Hosokawa Gratia Ink on paper, Momoyama period