Sackler exhibition explores the pages of Japan's illustrated books

The artwork that greets visitors to "Hand Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books" is neither a book nor from Pulverer's collection. But the scroll painting at the beginning of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery exhibition could hardly be more apt. The 18th-century picture shows four women and a boy who are cleaning and airing a trove of books, and it's by Katsukawa Shunsho, teacher of Japan's best-known print and book-illustration artist, Katsushika Hokusai.