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Yashiro and the Berensons

Yashiro and Berenson
  • About
    • A Few Words (Lino Pertile)
    • Letter (Wakaba Yashiro)
    • Introduction (Jonathan K. Nelson)
    • Colophon
  • Letters
    • The Yashiro-Berenson Correspondence (Michiaki Koshikawa)
    • Letters
  • People
  • Images
  • Texts by Yashiro
    • My Life in the Fine Arts (Tokyo: 1972)
      • Table of Contents
      • 7: Mr. Berenson and His Circle
        • Cockerell Letters
      • 8: Discovery of Botticelli’s "Pala delle Convertite"
      • 9: The Publication of "Sandro Botticelli"
      • 10: I Miss My Chance to Purchase a Botticelli
    • Sandro Botticelli (London and Boston: 1925)
    • "The 'Oriental' Character" (1952)
  • Studies on Yashiro
    • Hatcher, "Yashiro, Binyon and Waley"
    • Takagishi, "A Japanese Historian of Western Art"
    • Yamanashi, "Yashiro and the Institute of Art Research"
  • Berenson
    • Gorman, "Berenson’s Appreciation of Japanese Art"
    • Strehlke, "Bernard Berenson and Asian Art”
  • Introduction

    This exhibition presents the extant correspondence--nearly all unpublished--between Bernard Berenson and Yukio Yashiro. At the height of their fame they were among the most influential art historians in the West and in Japan, respectively. Today Yashiro is little known outside of his native country except for his monograph on Botticelli, published in English in 1925, now available on this website. Yashiro described his goals for the book in a remarkable letter from 1922 to Laurence Binyon: “I shall make clear what I, a man brought up in an artistic atmosphere utterly different from that of Europe, feel of Botticelli, that side of Botticelli which, as I think, was never, or perhaps very little, appreciated by European connoisseurs.”... Read more about Introduction

  • Lion, Chinese, North and South Dynasties

    Gift from Nicky Mariano to Yashiro, upon his 1959 visit to express condolences for Berenson’s death

  • View of the Borgo San Jacopo, Florence

    Yashiro’s watercolor, ca. 1921, reproduced in his autobiography, captures the view from his hotel

  • View of the Borgo San Jacopo, Florence

    Photograph taken by Yashiro, ca. 1921, with the same view depicted in his watercolor

  • Yukio, Fumi, Akio, and Yoko Yashiro

    Family photograph sent to Berenson with Yashiro's letter of December 17, 1940

Letters from Yashiro

Yashiro (in Tokyo) to Bernard Berenson

September 27, 1937

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Yashiro (in Tokyo) to Bernard Berenson

December 17, 1940

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Yashiro (in London) to Mary Berenson

December 15, 1924

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Letters to Yashiro

Bernard Berenson (in Settignano) to Yashiro

December 7, 1955

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Nicky Mariano (in Settignano) to Yashiro

February 16, 1959

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Bernard Berenson (in Settignano) to Yashiro

July 4, 1955

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