From the Boston Museum of Art Collection "The Allure of Edo"

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Finished

Artists

Moronobu Hishikawa, Utamaro Kitagawa, Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Utamaru et al.

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.

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Schedule

Oct 21 (Sat) 2006-Dec 10 (Sun) 2006

Opening Hours Information

Hours	9:30-17:30 Saturdays closing at 19:30
Closed	Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Opens during the Sumo matches in Ryogoku. Closed during the New Year holidays.

Fee

Adults ¥1300, University Students ¥1040, High School and Junior High Students ¥650, Elementary School Students and Over 65s ¥650

Venue

Edo-Tokyo Museum
http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/en/