Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, Japanese, Kamakura period, datable to c. 1292. Japanese cypress; assembled woodblock construction with polychromy and rock-crystal inlaid eyes. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 99.1979.1. Photo: Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Exhibit Lecture - Prince Shōtoku: The Secrets Within

Exhibition curator Rachel Saunders, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Associate Curator of Asian Art, and Angela Chang, assistant director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, will reveal the latest findings in a collaborative effort to interpret the remarkable 13th-century sculpture and the cache of relics it contained. Free and open to the public.

To learn more, please visit the Harvard Art Museums webpage.

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