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Katsushika Hokusai’s “Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji: Clear Weather with Southern Breeze,” from around 1830 to 1834 (Provided by the Shimane Art Museum)
MATSUE The Shimane Art Museum here will close for a year from May 25 to strengthen the building’s resistance against earthquakes, but that is not stopping it from showing off its incredible ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
The prefectural museum boasts 3,000 or so ukiyo-e works, and they can be viewed on a special website (https://shimane-art-museum-ukiyoe.jp/).
The works are mainly from two collections: one put together by Matsue-born industrialist Jiro Shinjo (1901-1996), and another by Seiji Nagata (1951-2018), a researcher on master ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. Nagata hailed from Tsuwano, also in Shimane Prefecture.