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Step Inside Moronobu’s Genre Scenes of the Twelve Months: Masterpieces of Early Ukiyo-e

Name: Step Inside Moronobu’s Genre Scenes of the Twelve Months: Masterpieces of Early Ukiyo-e
Start: 2026-06-26T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-08-22T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Seikado Bunko Art Museum

◇ When

Saturday, June 27, 2026

→ Sunday, August 23, 2026

⌖ Where

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

1F Meiji Seimei Kan, 2-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005

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Hishikawa Moronobu (1618?–94) was a pioneer of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints and paintings, particularly known for his work Beauty Looking Back. Genre Scenes of the Twelve Months, in the Seikado collection, is a brilliant pictorial scroll executed on a vast scale, using Moronobu’s unique pictorial gifts to vividly illustrate the lives of ordinary people throughout the year. In addition to screens and scrolls by Moronobu himself, the exhibition traces his artistic genealogy, looking at his influence on Hanabusa Itchō and artists of the Miyagawa school.

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