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Mokumo Sensei and Cupid: AOKI Shigeru Library
10 Feb, 2024 - 07 Apr, 2024
Calling himself a bibliophile and a lover of smoking, art historian Aoki Shigeru (1932鈥�2021), a.k.a. "Mokumo Sensei," was a leading researcher of the Late-Edo Western-style painter Takahashi Yuichi (1828鈥�1894). His collection of books, "Aoki 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 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.
Calling himself a bibliophile and a lover of smoking, art historian Aoki Shigeru (1932鈥�2021), a.k.a. "Mokumo Sensei," was a leading researcher of the Late-Edo Western-style painter Takahashi Yuichi (1828鈥�1894). His collection of books, "Aoki 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 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.
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