# Playing in the Ukiyo: Ukiyo-e's endless laugh in the vortex of Bakumatsu and Meiji
_浮世で遊ぶ：幕末・明治の渦に広がる浮世絵の笑い_

- **When:** Sat, Sep 12, 2026 10:00 – Mon, Nov 23, 2026 (JST)
- **Where:** Machida City International Print Museum, Machida — 4-28-1 Haramachida, Machida, Tokyo
- **Map:** https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=35.5440354,139.4550276
- **Price:** ¥1,000
- **Category:** Art & Exhibitions
- **Official site:** https://hanga-museum.jp/exhibition/schedule/2026-631
- **On Tokyo Events:** https://eventstokyo.com/en/events/playing-in-the-ukiyo-ukiyo-es-endless-laugh-in-the-vortex-of-bakumatsu-and-meiji

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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.

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Source: Tokyo Events — https://eventstokyo.com/en/events/playing-in-the-ukiyo-ukiyo-es-endless-laugh-in-the-vortex-of-bakumatsu-and-meiji