Glimpses of Ukiyo-E: Japanese Art of the Late Tokugawa Period

About the exhibition
Organised to coincide with a Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia hosted at Monash University, Glimpses of Ukiyo-E centred on original Japanese prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The exhibited woodcuts were predominantly from the last blush of Ukiyo-e, or so-called ‘decadent’ period, when the influence of Japanese art, design and printmaking was reaching a peak in Europe. The exhibition was completed with works on loan from private collections, including examples of Oriental lacquer work.

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was produced in conjunction with the Asian Studies Association of Australia Fourth Biennial Conference, Monash University, Melbourne.

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^{Image: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, At First Glance He Looks Fierce But He's Really a Nice Man c.1847–48, colour woodblock print on paper, 36.2 x 24.1 cm}