Edo in Focus: a twelve-work guide to changing distance

Twelve guides in four languages connect Red Fuji, actor portraits, screens, and a mural copy, following painting, collecting, and reunions across museums.

Edo in Focus: Japanese Treasures from the British Museum — Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · –

Works

  1. 14. Clear day with a southern breeze (Red Fuji), from Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji
  2. 15. Actor Arashi Ryūzō II as the moneylender Ishibe Kinkichi
  3. 24. Tracing of a painting from wall no. 9 in the kondō of Hōryū-ji temple
  4. 28. Birds and flowers of autumn and winter
  5. 42. The demon queller Shōki (Zhong Kui) and two demons
  6. 47. Birds and flowers
  7. 50. Mother tiger carrying three cubs across a river
  8. 61. Fireflies
  9. 65. A courtesan reading a letter
  10. 146. Under the wave off Kanagawa (‘the Great Wave’), from the series Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji
  11. 182. The plum garden at Kameido, from the series One hundred famous views of Edo
  12. 191. Princess Takiyasha and the skeleton spectre

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