Tama Art University Museum in Tokyo will exhibit 40-year-old block prints expressing the ideas of the Declaration of Havana of September 1960.

The exhibition from this Saturday to May 23 "will show the social conditions in Cuba in those days and how artists expressed them," said Hiromichi Kobayashi, the museum's curator. "The block prints are also considered valuable historical materials."

Created by 12 Cuban artists, the block prints were brought to Japan by prominent painter Taeko Tomiyama following her trip to Asia, Africa and Latin America in the early 1960s.