1. A myriad of Ukiyo-e digital image works, combined with panoramic projection, audio-visual interaction, and other digital media technologies, immerse viewers in the experience, allowing them to feel the waves, spring snow, hanging lights, cherry blossoms, and interact with graceful beauties in flower viewing, poetry, and music, or with various actors in song, dance, and the joys and sorrows of life.
2. The exhibition gathers nearly 150 museum-grade works from various schools and representative painters of the Edo and Meiji periods, including classic originals from famous painters such as Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Toyohara, Utagawa Kunisada, Tōshūsai Sharaku, Utagawa Toyokuni, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Okada Yoshitoshi.
3. It covers a multitude of artistic themes including beauty painting, actor painting, landscape painting, and origin painting. The most eye-catching works include those inspired by Chinese classics such as ‘Journey to the West,’ ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms,’ ‘Water Margin,’ and ‘The Tale of Genji,’ which is known as the Japanese ‘Dream of the Red Chamber,’ along with works on tea ceremony, flower arrangement, calligraphy, sumo, and music, all originating from Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties. This presentation is worth looking forward to for the interpenetration and interpretation of Chinese elements and Ukiyo-e.
4. By changing scenes and objects, the exhibition uses antique artifacts and living utensils from the Edo period to restore scenes, allowing visitors to experience the Edo culture and aesthetics through role-playing, time-travel experiences, and sharing on social media, between reality and virtuality.
5. Visitors can experience the Ukiyo-e creation process with public teachers and can apply to participate in free on-site experience classes. A series of art classes, including beauty education, tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and sumo, will be open, making the exhibition an enjoyable and wonderful experience.
Full exhibition open from 2/4 to 10/23, Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00-18:00; closed all day on Mondays.
