1.   It boasts first-rank treasures from the National Museum in Seoul, including ink paintings, Buddhist icons and celadon bowls.

2.   Juri Kim, from Korea, dramatizes the gestural impulse in ink painting by leaving the dragged impression of her hands on the paper.

3.   Michael Goedhuis, a dealer in classical art who has led the pack in the contemporary area, is offering recent ink paintings by Gu Gan.

4.   The fantasy landscape has inspired Chinese poets and ink paintings for thousands of years.

5.   The first gallery includes a Frank Benson ink painting of birds silhouetted against sky, quickly and directly brushed.

6.   The researcher, Jintae Lee at the University of Aizu, has modeled the paper and ink used in black ink painting to reproduce its unique diffusion effect.

7.   The exhibit also covers the period when ink painting gained popularity in Japan, inspired by an influx of works from Chinese Buddhist monks.

8.   The tones of ink paintings, or suibokuga, are shades of gray and black.

9.   To an eye more familiar with Western painting from the same era -- the age in which Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci lived -- the ink paintings seem austere.

10.   What gives it away as a Chinese restaurant has to be the huge ink paintings of cranes, dragon-motif chairs and chopsticks on the table.