This special exhibition focuses on Utagawa Hiroshige, a leading ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period.
The Tokyo National Museum was recently gifted 1,025 ukiyo-e prints from the collection of Uchiyama Susumu (1893–1980). Over the course of his life, Uchiyama built a high-quality collection of prints, largely focused on Hiroshige’s works, and made significant contributions to the popularization and study of ukiyo-e through exhibitions and publications showcasing his collection.
To commemorate the acquisition of these invaluable works, the museum is holding a three-part exhibition — the Tokyo National Museum’s first full-scale Hiroshige exhibition — featuring Hiroshige’s most renowned print series in the landscape and bird-and-flower genres: “The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido,” “The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido” and “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.”
All three series are shown across three rotating phases, each presenting a different set of works so that visitors can trace the evolution of Hiroshige’s style in depth. An ultra-high-definition video corner is also set up, projecting the fine color and composition of Hiroshige’s work on a large screen as part of an immersive, digitally enhanced display.
