From the Boston Museum of Art Collection "The Allure of Edo"
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At Edo-Tokyo Museum
Media: Painting, Art Party
American doctor William Bigelow amassed a great collection of ukiyoe paintings when he came to Japan in the Meiji Era. He donated most of them to the Boston Museum where they were called the 'phantom ukiyoe collection' for a long time, because the paintings were largely left untouched due to the sheer size of the collection. In 1996, a group of Japanese researchers started to examine the paintings and discovered almost 700 works. Unlike ukiyoe prints, only one version of each hand-painted ukiyoe exists.
This exhibition is a selection of eighty masterpieces from that collection, most which will be shown to the public for the first time.
Visit their website for information on related events. (JP only)
Schedule
From 2006-10-21 To 2006-12-10
Artist(s)
Moronobu Hishikawa, Utamaro Kitagawa, Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Utamaru et al.
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肉筆浮世絵は版で刷ったものとは違った趣があり
とても興味深かったです。
でも、ここの企画展は相変わらず見辛く……。
ホールを衝立で区切って通路を作っているからか
狭くて、ごみごみしていて、息苦しい感じです。
ゆっくり・ゆったりとは見ることができません。
私が行った日は客の質も悪かったしなぁ。
時間を見計らって出かけた方が良いと思います。
Japanese researchers found stunning, unrecorded ukiyo-e at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By Kay Itoi
Special to The Japan Times
"While prints are graphic and bold, what is incredible about the paintings is how fine and luxurious they are," says Nishimura Morse.
That's no surprise, because experts say that orders for paintings generally came from wealthy merchants, samurai families and sometimes Imperial family members, only after an artist established their reputation with prints.
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