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UKIYO E OTA MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 7, 2023
Ukiyo-e art brings Chinese literary heroes to life
The new exhibition at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art showcases playful renderings of rogues and warriors from historical stories.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 11, 2021
Utagawa Kuniyoshi: When censorship strikes, art gets playful
Ota Memorial Museum of Art's two-part exhibition of the woodblock print artist's works reveals his impish sense of humor.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 29, 2016
'Utagawa Kunisada: Japanese Lifestyle and Fashion'
April 1-24
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 28, 2015
'Excellent Techniques of Carving and Printing: 250th Birth Anniversary of Multi-Colored Print'
Aug. 1-Sept. 27
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2015
'Kawaii: Cute Girls in Ukiyo-e'
March 1-26
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 25, 2014
'Ukiyo-e New Years Exhibition'
Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art will exhibit paintings from its collection, including works by Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 10, 2014
When it came to horror, ukiyo-e artists kept their wits about them
This exhibition showcases more than 250 Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo Period (1603-1868), depicting ghosts, goblins and other supernatural beings. The lurid subject matter, a graphic illustration of the shadowy spirit underworld, is as delightful as it is ghoulish.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 25, 2014
'Specters, Ghosts and Sorcerers in Ukiyo-e'
Ghouls, monsters, specters, ghosts — all manner of the supernatural have long fascinated and frightened in all cultures, but the Japanese have historically enjoyed a particularly entertaining, and pictorial, relationship with the eerie and uncanny.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 28, 2014
'Sumo Wrestlers in Ukiyo-e: Ishiguro Kazuyoshi Collection'
Sumo is not simply a sport: Like kabuki theater, it's a tradition and an important cultural heritage with a long history. This exhibition showcases nearly 100 sumo-e, ukiyo-e prints of sumo wrestlers, which date back to the early 19th century and are selected from the Kazuyoshi Ishiguro collection.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2013
'Comical Ukiyo-e: Humorous Pictures and the School of Kuniyoshi'
The Edo Period (1603-1867) of Japan is well known for its economic growth and strong social order, but a lesser known fact is that people of this era also enjoyed comedy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2013
The beauty of 'man'-kind
While the ukiyo-e woodblock prints depicting beautiful young Japanese women of the Edo Period (1603-1867) are world-renowned, an equally worthy genre and common theme tends to get overlooked: that of handsome men. The imaginative exhibition "Handsome Boys and Good-looking Men of Edo," currently on show at the Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, brings to light the celebration of the male figure by great Edo Period woodblock print artists.

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