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SUMMARY:100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Edo in Focus: Japanese Treasures from the British Museum
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 1753\, the British Museum is one of the world's great museums. Its collection of Japanese art is said to be the most comprehensive outside of Japan in quality as well as quantity. People’s fascination with the culture of Japan\, a foreign land far across the seas\, has been the driving force behind the collection’s expansion since the late 19th century\, when Japonisme became a craze. The achievements of surgeon William Anderson (1842~1900) and other collectors and curators associated with the British Museum\, and the connections they formed among them\, extended across borders and decades and have been passed down to this day.\n\nThis exhibition will showcase selected masterpieces from the British Museum’s some 40\,000-piece Japanese art collection with a focus on Edo-period paintings on byobu (folding screens)\, hanging scrolls (kakejiku)\, and handscrolls (emaki)\, as well as prints by...
LOCATION:Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 8-36 Ueno Park\, Taito-ku\, Tokyo 110-8712
URL:https://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/2026_britishmuseum.html
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