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Mokumo Sensei and Cupid: AOKI Shigeru Library From the Museum Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

Mokumo Sensei and Cupid: AOKI Shigeru Library
From the Museum Collection

About the Exhibition

Calling himself a bibliophile and a lover of smoking, art historian Aoki Shigeru (1932–2021), a.k.a. "Mokumo Sensei," was a leading researcher of the Late-Edo Western-style painter Takahashi Yuichi (1828–1894). His collection of books, "AOKI Shigeru Library," which was acquired by the museum over many years, now numbers 10,000 volumes. In addition to introducing valuable materials from the Meiji period from the "AOKI Shigeru Library," a major asset for future art history research, the exhibition will also feature the restored Cupid (artist unknown), a work formerly owned by Takahashi Yuichi and acquired in 2019, which was identified through Aoki's research, for the first time since its restoration.

Information

Venue
HAYAMA, Galleries 3b and 4
Period
February 10 – April 7, 2024
Closed
Mondays (except February 12)
Opening hours
9:30 – 17:00 (last admission at 16:30)
Admissions
Adult: 250 yen (150 yen)
Under 20 or Students: 150 yen (100 yen)
65 and over: 100 yen
High School Students: 100 yen
Junior High School Students and under: Free
* Prices in ( ) indicate group (over 19 persons) discount tickets. * Tickets of the exhibition "AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke and His Aesthetics, Two Forerunners—NATSUME Soseki and SUGA Torao" also entitle to enter the exhibition "Mokumo Sensei and Cupid: AOKI Shigeru Library From the Museum Collection" on the day of purchase. * A person with disabilities and one accompanying caretaker are admitted free of charge upon presenting Disabled Person's Handbook or an equivalent government-issued identification. * "Family Communication Day" offers a discount for all group (except those aged 65 and over) accompanying children under 18 on the first Sunday of every month. * For more infomation, see Concessions & Free Admission.
Organized by
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama

Works

  • Kawakami Togai, Flower and Bamboo
    1870, Chinese ink on paper
    Museum collection (AOKI Shigeru Library)

  • Kimura Shohachi, No.227, Daido (Datong), “Daidosekibutsuji”
    1920, Watercolor and pencil on paper
    Museum collection (AOKI Shigeru Library)

  • Kimura Shohachi, No.175, The Arch of the First Cave, “Daidosekibutsuji”
    1920, Watercolor and pencil on paper
    Museum collection (AOKI Shigeru Library)

  • Kamei Takejiro, Kawasaki Station, View of Rokugo River, "Nostalgia, Photos of fifty-three Stations Tokaido"
    1892, Lithograph on paper
    Museum collection (AOKI Shigeru Library)

  • “Biography of Takahashi Yuichi”
    1892, Print on paper
    Museum collection (AOKI Shigeru Library)

  • Announcement by Kanagawa Prefectural Office
    1872, Chinese ink on paper
    Museum collection (AOKI Shigeru Library)

  • Cupid
    Oil on canvas
    Museum collection

  • Takahashi Yuichi, Enoshima
    1876-1877, Oil on canvas
    Museum collection

  • Honda Kinkichiro, Yuigahama Beach in Kamakura
    1896, Watercolor on paper
    Museum collection

Also on View
AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke and His Aesthetics, Two Forerunners—
NATSUME Soseki and SUGA ToraoMore Info
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