"Graphic Heros,Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection" Exhibition

Japan Society Gallery

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Thrashing sea creatures, samurai warriors, and a giant, looming skeleton are among the distinguishing subjects of the brashest of Japan’s Ukiyo-e masters, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861).

Graphic Heros,Magic Monsters marks the first major exhibition of Kuniyoshi’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years. The vast majority of over 130 color-woodblock prints on display are from the Arthur R. Miller Collection, New York, generously loaned to Japan Society by the American Friends of The British Museum.

For the duration of the exhibition manga artist Hiroki Otsuka will be stationed in the gallery for about 20 hours a week, drawing his own manga inspired by Kuniyoshi’s story telling.

[Image: Utagawa Kuniyoshi "Mitsukuni Defies a Skeleton Specter" (detail), (1845-46) Color woodblock print, 14 5/6 x 29 7/8 in. The British Museum, JA 1915.8-23.0915, 0916. Photo © Trustees of the British Museum.]

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from March 12, 2010 to June 13, 2010

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