TAB Event - 「End of Shogunate Ukiyo-e Prints from the Nakau Collection: Festivity of Greater Edo - The World of Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi" Exhibition

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At Mitaka City Gallery of Art
Media: Prints, Art Talk

Developed in the late 17th century, ukiyo-e printmaking is a popular art that was well loved by Edo citizens. Early Ukiyo-e were set in kabuki stages and depicted actors and beautiful female roles, and this style led by artists such as Utamaro and Sharaku reached the height of its popularity in the Kansei Period during the mid-eighteenth century. Afterwards, the subject of Ukiyo-e expanded suddenly and rapidly from the 1830s to the Meiji era, becoming a media that reflected the desires of Edo commoners.
The travel boom resulted in landscape prints, and heroes from novels and plays about ghosts and the supernatural appeared in warrior prints. The political currents of the time were picked up in satirical images of the shogunate's reforms, and those portraying the opening of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Perry's black ships.
The Edo printmakers incorporated new expressive styles into their works in addition to new content. Prints based on western paintings and the limited information available at the time have a mystique that translates to us viewers living in a society where images from all over the world is passed on every minute.
This exhibition features 150 carefully selected works from Ei Nakau's massive Ukiyo-e collection, centering on works from the end of the Edo era.

Related Programs
-Live Ukiyo-e Printmaking Performance (with explanation)
A printmaking craftsman will perform the process of creating Hokusai'd masterpiece "Kanagawa Okinami-ura".
Date: April 29th (Tues, Holiday), 11:00, 14:00 (Performance time one and a half hours)
Fee: Free. No reservations needed.

-"Why the End of the Shogunate is Interesting Now" by Ei Nakau (Chairman of the International Ukiyo-e Study Group)
Fee: Free. Please make reservations by calling 0422-47-5122.

-Explanation of Works by Ei Nakau (Chairman of the International Ukiyo-e Study Group)
Date and Time: May 11th (Sun), 11:00, 14:00 (40 minutes each)
Fee: Free. Separate entry fee to exhibition. No reservations needed.

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