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| OTA MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART 1-10-10, Jingumae Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 tel: +81 (3) 3403-0880 internet: www.ukiyoe-ota-muse.jp/english.html |
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| • Katsushika Hokusai from the Collection
of Nagase Takeshiro February 1 - February 26, 2004 |
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| The Nagase Takeshiro collection consists of about 600 ukiyo-e works donated by the late Mr. Nagase in 1978. Collected during his stay in Paris, they contain about seventy works by Hokusai. These include rare yakusha-e (portraits of actors) of Hokusai’s early years when he used the name of Shunro, some works produced under the name of Sori, a set of “Fifty-three Stations on Tokaido” that focuses on travelers and gives a vivid description of the regions, and bird's-eye pictures drawn by Hokusai in his original perspective. | ||||
| • Utagawa Hiroshige: the World of Flowers,
Birds, Fish and Seashells March 2 – March 26, 2004 |
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| Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) left many great
landscapes such as "Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido" and he is
well-known as a landscape artist representative of Ukiyo-e. On the other
hand, he drew a few hundred of pictures of flowers, birds, fish and sea
shells and he is a prominent figure among Ukiyo-e artists both in quality
and quantity.
This exhibition shows about 80 works selected from our collection of Hiroshige. Owing to Hiroshige's vivid expression and poems attached to the images, you may be able to imagine the flaps of birds' wings and the rustle of trees and flowers. At the same time, famous "The Fish Series", splendid scenary paintings of four seasons, print books and sketches are also displayed. |
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