It's one of the world's most iconic expressions of a night sky: a bold yellow moon, a milky expanse of stars and gradated shades of blue alongside the swirling silhouette of a cypress tree and a distant sleeping village.
"The Starry Night," created by Dutch maestro Vincent Van Gogh during a stint in an asylum in the south of France in 1889, has long been celebrated as a world-class example of post-impressionist art.
However, for the children gathered in an art studio in Tokyo one recent Sunday, it represents something a little different: a chance to get messy with squishy tubes of paints while working on a very grown up canvas and an easel.