This bilingual (German/English) publication supports the exhibition
Haiku & Haiga – Augenblicke in Wort und Bild – Japanische Rollbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten, held in Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau, Germany) in April 2006. This selection of beautiful Japanese scrolls shows the poetic power of the combination of the word and the image. The texts on all 78 exhibited objects are published in Japanese (in kanji and in transcription) as well as in German/English translation, supplemented with comments. Contributions by specialists among which Prof. Dr. Ekkehard May, Dr. Anna Beerens and Dr. Dan McKee.
Ron Manheim is art historian, and currently deputy artistic director of the Museum Schloss Moyland where he co-organized earlier the major exhibition 'Seen with a Brush – Japanese Drawing and Painting from the 17th tot the 20th Century. The Gerhard Schack Collection'.
Scholars and collectors of Japanese painting, people interested in Japanese poetry, haiku and haiga.