Hokusai and Ukiyo-e - the Floating World. Artworks from the Chiossone Collection

The exhibition showcases an extraordinary collection of Japanese works, introducing the audience to an in-depth knowledge of the production of Japanese painting from the Edo period (1603-1868) of the ukiyo-e: the “images of the Floating World”.

Visitors will have the opportunity to admire a selection of paintings on hanging scrolls and hand-painted horizontal scrolls by the great masters of the various schools starting from the mid-seventeenth century, but also woodblock colour prints with only black outlines, with hand-painted parts added which later evolved into the polychrome nishiki-e "brocade images", as well as printed and painted fans, and precious crafts representing the rich Japanese artistic and artisan tradition, such as board games and musical instruments, narrating the evolution of taste, fashions and entertainment culture born during the long Tokugawa peace corresponding to the Edo period .

These remarkable exhibits originate from the renowned Italian collections of the Oriental Art Museum E. Chiossone in Genoa.