A Japanese spa complex is one of 107 prints acquired by the Venice Museum of Oriental Art

by Redazione , published on 28/12/2021
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New acquisition for the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice: an album of one hundred and seven woodcut prints assembled in the Meiji era.

The Museum of Oriental Art in Venice is enriched thanks to a new acquisition: a compulsory purchase by way of pre-emption made by the General Directorate of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape - Service IV of the Ministry of Culture, following the request of the Antiquities and Fine Arts Export Office of the ABAP Superintendency for the metropolitan city of Milan and after hearing the opinion of Professor Rossella Menegazzo of the State University of Milan.

It is an album of one hundred and seven woodcut prints titled Azuma nishikie jō zen, assembled in the Meiji era, containing works by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Toyahara Kunichika and other artists of that context.

Image: Toyahara Kunichika, Kamitsuke Shima kōsen sekitei uchi no zu 上毛四万鉱泉関邸内之図 (Image of the Shima bath complex near Kamitsukeno), c. 1881.

A Japanese spa complex is one of 107 prints acquired by the Venice Museum of Oriental Art
A Japanese spa complex is one of 107 prints acquired by the Venice Museum of Oriental Art


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