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Playing in the Ukiyo: Ukiyo-e's endless laugh in the vortex of Bakumatsu and Meiji

Name: Playing in the Ukiyo: Ukiyo-e's endless laugh in the vortex of Bakumatsu and Meiji
Start: 2026-09-12T01:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-23T08:00:00+00:00
Location: 町田市立国際版画美術館

◇ When

September 12 – November 23, 2026

Saturday – Monday

◈ Price

¥1,000

⌖ Where · Machida

Machida City International Print Museum

4-28-1 Haramachida, Machida, Tokyo

町田市立国際版画美術館
東京都町田市東京都町田市原町田4-28-1

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This exhibition draws on the museum's own ukiyo-e collection to ask why woodblock-print artists kept making humorous and satirical images through the turbulent end of the Edo period and the Meiji era. Around 250 works are shown across two display periods, including caricatures by Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, catfish prints (namazu-e) made after the 1855 earthquake, measles prints, political satire, modernization prints (kaika-e) and works by Kobayashi Kiyochika.