Bird and Flower Prints from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection of the RISD Museum: Featuring Hokusai and Hiroshige
Chiba City Museum of Art
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Rhode Island School of Design (commonly known as RISD), located in Rhode Island, USA, is a historic art university founded in 1877. Due to its cultural environment, adjacent to Brown University, and close proximity to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, wealthy people who were interested in Japanese art donated many works to the attached museum. There are about 4,000 pieces of Japanese art in the collection, but the collection of ukiyo-e prints is particularly large. A unique collection, centered on flower-and-bird prints, is known to have been assembled by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874–1948), the wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr., a prominent local-born magnate.
This exhibition will display 160 selected works from this vast collection. In Japan, the “Rockefeller Ukiyo-e Collection Exhibition: Reviving Beauty: Flowers and Birds” was held in 1990, but in 2026, 35 years later, the curators of each host museum will hold an exhibition based on the latest research results. This is an exhibition in which works are selected and planned as a new project.During the era when Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige were active, many flower and bird prints were produced as a new development in ukiyo-e prints. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to view all the flower and bird paintings by ukiyo-e artists. We hope that as many people as possible can take a look at the world of flower and bird prints, which are both approachable and worth seeing.
This exhibition will display 160 selected works from this vast collection. In Japan, the “Rockefeller Ukiyo-e Collection Exhibition: Reviving Beauty: Flowers and Birds” was held in 1990, but in 2026, 35 years later, the curators of each host museum will hold an exhibition based on the latest research results. This is an exhibition in which works are selected and planned as a new project.During the era when Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige were active, many flower and bird prints were produced as a new development in ukiyo-e prints. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to view all the flower and bird paintings by ukiyo-e artists. We hope that as many people as possible can take a look at the world of flower and bird prints, which are both approachable and worth seeing.
Schedule | Jan 17 (Sat) 2026-Mar 1 (Sun) 2026 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1800, University Students ¥1200, High School Students and Under free. | ||||
| MuPon | ¥100 off / Up to 3 people / Adult entry only. No other discounts.  Download the TAB app to get a discount on entry to this event. ※Paid subscriber only | ||||
| Website | https://www.ccma-net.jp/exhibitions/special/26-1-17-3-1/ | ||||
| Venue | Chiba City Museum of Art | ||||
| Location | 3-10-8 Chuo, Chuo-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 260-0013 | ||||
| Access | 7 minute walk from Yoshikawakoen Station on the Chiba Urban Monorail, 10 minute walk from the East exit of Chibachuo Station on the Keisei line, 15 minute walk from the East exit of JR Chiba Station. | ||||
| Phone | 043-221-2311 | ||||
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