At the press event for The Life of Animals in Japanese Art on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, remarks were made by Kaywin Feldman, director, National Gallery of Art; His Excellency Shinsuke J. Sugiyama, ambassador of Japan; Hiroyasu Andō, president, The Japan Foundation and former ambassador of Japan; and exhibition cocurators Masatomo Kawai, director, Chiba City Museum of Art, and Robert T. Singer, curator and department head of Japanese art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.