Since 1868, with the Meiji Restoration, many people from Japan have traveled to Europe to study aspects of Western culture. For artists, studying in Europe brought them into contact with famous Occidental paintings and the latest artistic trends, both which they absorbed insatiably.
“Etranger,” an essay by the poet and novelist Shimazaki Toson, records the passion of his compatriots for engaging in lively conversations about art and embarking on sketching trips. Through their experiences as an etranger, a stranger, they created a great variety of works: basic dessin in art classes, copies of works in art museums, portraits of the people with whom they interacted in that alien land, landscape paintings created while out sketching. Those works are also a source of information for speaking eloquently about what they were looking at and what they learned from.
The theme of this exhibition is works from the collection that artists created while in Europe, including Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji, Yasui Sotaro, and Fujita Tsuguharu, and communicates their fresh appeal.

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