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Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn exhibition at The Hunt Museum runs until February 22

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Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn Launches at The Hunt Museum An Exhibition of Prints by Japanese and Irish Artists. UL Japanese and LSAD students pictured at the exhibition. Photo: Kieran Ryan Benson

Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn Launches at The Hunt Museum An Exhibition of Prints by Japanese and Irish Artists

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His Excellency, Mr. Norio Maruyama, Ambassador of Japan to Ireland and Maria Donoghue, Limerick Councillor. Photo: Kieran Ryan Benson

The Hunt Museum has proudly launched Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn.

This remarkable exhibition features works by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish artists, each interpreting ghostly tales from Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904).

The launch was graced by special guests His Excellency, Mr. Norio Maruyama, Ambassador of Japan to Ireland, Maria Donoghue, Limerick Councillor, deputy Mayor of Limerick and featuring artists and exhibition originators Stephen Lawlor, Kate MacDonagh and Ed Miliano.


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Attendees celebrated the cultural ties between Ireland and Japan through this innovative exhibition, which will run at the Hunt Museum until 22nd February 2025.

The exhibition is the result of a collaboration that began in 2017, when Irish artist Stephen Lawlor discovered Hearn’s writings while exhibiting in Tokyo.

The exhibition is the result of a collaboration that began in 2017, when Irish artist Stephen Lawlor discovered Hearn’s writings while exhibiting in Tokyo.

Alongside Kate MacDonagh and Ed Miliano, Lawlor brought together Japanese and Irish artists to explore Hearn’s enduring themes of folklore and storytelling.

Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn is presented in partnership with SO Fine Art Editions, Culture Ireland, and the Department of Foreign Affairs, and will tour venues in both Japan and Ireland after its run at the Hunt Museum.

This remarkable exhibition features works by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish artists, each interpreting ghostly tales from Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904).
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