Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2011

With over 12,000 ukiyo-e prints, the Ota museum possesses one of the world’s strongest collections of the iconic Japanese art form. But with little space to show them, many of its masterpieces go unseen for long periods. Essentially a Greatest Hits exhibition, this show attempts to redress that by displaying some 80 of the museum’s prize pieces, among them prints by titans of ukiyo-e like Kitagawa Utamaro, Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Utagawa Hiroshige.

Ota Memorial Museum of Art, until Dec 18 (listing)