15

EnglishEditionSpecial Exhibition

Samurai

Oct. 25 Fri. 2019 No.15

Saturday, September 14, to Monday,
November 4— Peacekeeping Contributors

Special Exhibition Gallery, 1F

in Edo Period*Displays will be changed during the exhibition.

A matchlock that could
be used on horseback.
Horseback matchlock,bullet cases, bullets andpriming powder thatbelonged toNONOMURA Ichinoshin
End of Edo period

Information

Look at these
dignified fellows— these are samurai !
‘Officials Belonging to
the Satsuma Domain’
Photographer: Felice Beatoc. 1863–1870
Private collection“Samurai” is a key word used often to define the image of Japan, both at home and abroad. Thatword’s associations, however, vary from person to person. A member of the samurai class, awarrior, a masterless samurai: the term is used in many different ways, often with no factual
historical basis. This exhibition is dedicated to presenting the samurai of the Edo period, theprototype of today’s image of samurai. How did they live? What did their work entail? We hopethat exploring this exhibition will be an opportunity to revise your image of the samurai.
This exhibition is not confined to the abstract image of the samurai that appears in writings
about bushidō, the samurai code. It highlights, through paintings and old photographs, whatsamurai actually did in Edo, which, as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, was one of the largest
cities in the world. It also, through objects handed down in samurai families, famous or obscure,offers a candid view of samurai lifestyles in the Edo-period people.
Highlights: 1
Samurai who lived in Edo: A closer look
Genre paintings, old photographs, historic records, tools, and other artifacts: A diverse group of
200 items present the everyday lives of samurai in the great metropolis of Edo.
Highlights: 2
Report for duty! But not to battle — Dispatched urgently in disasters“Fires and quarrels are the flowers of Edo.” As that famous phrase tells us, Edo suffered fromrepeated fires, and the samurai were in charge of firefighting. Firefighting gear and other exhibits
show us how samurai responded to disasters.
Highlights: 3
Artifacts once owned by samurai — some of them famous figures —convey a sense of how they lived.
Implements and old documents handed down in samurai families reveal much about theireveryday lives and how they performed in emergencies.
Highlights: 4Firearms — beware!
Swords were not the samurai’s only weapons.
Even during the Great Peace of the Edo period, samurai did not neglect their training in the useof guns. Here we explore the firearms and other weapons, apart from swords, used by samurai intheir role as warriors.
(Curator: Tahara Noboru)

A nostalgic view of life in the Edobarracks painted at the requestof the old retainers.
Picture Scroll of Terraced
Houses‚for Kurume Domain s Samurais
Working in Edo. Picture ofDrinking Party

Painted by: MITANI Shōha,
Introduction: TODA Kumajirō
Meiji period(On display until October 6.
It will be replaced by a replica thereafter.)

Hours: 9:30 – 17:30 (until 19:30 on Saturdays). Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed: Mondays (except for September 23, October 14, and November 4), Tuesday, September 24, and Tuesday,
October 15.
Organaization: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum,
The Asahi Shimbun.
Admission:
Admission Fee (tax included)

Special exhibition only

Special and permanent exhibition¥1,100 (¥880)¥880 (¥700)¥550 (¥440)¥550 (¥440)¥1,360 (¥1,090)¥1,090 (¥870)¥680 (¥550)
None

Standard adult
University/college students
Middle and high school students. Seniors 65+
Tokyo middle school students and elementary school students

Notes:• Fees in parentheses are for groups of twenty or more.
• Fees are waived in the following cases: Children below school age and individuals with a Shintai Shogaisha Techo (Physical Disability Certificate),Ai-no-Techo (Intellectual Disability Certificate), Ryoiku Techo (Rehabilitation Certificate), Seishin Shogaisha Hoken Fukushi Techo(Certificate for Health and Welfare of People with Mental Disorders), or Hibakusha Kenko Techo (Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Certificate)and up to two people accompanying them.
• Since elementary school students and middle school students who are Tokyo residents and students at Tokyo schools receive freeadmission to the permanent exhibition, there is no joint admission fee for them.
• Only same-day tickets are available during the exhibition period.

Ticket Sales:
Edo-Tokyo Museum or E-Plus (For joint tickets to both special and permanent exhibitions, Edo-Tokyo Museum only)

From the Permanent Collection Gallery

Exploring the Large-scale Models
The black market at Shinjuku station (east exit)
❸❶

❷

新宿駅

1: The black market at Shinjuku
station (east exit)
Restoration time period: 1948,
fall Scale: 1/120

2: Shinjyuku (Night view of black market) / model
Restoration time period: 1947, fall Scale: 1/10

The Tokyo Revived corner in the Tokyozone of the Permanent Exhibition presents
a model of the black market that sprang up
at the east exit of Shinjuku Station afterWorld War II. When our museum
opened, the curator in charge of that cornerparticipated in the research team led by
Matsudaira Makoto, who was then aprofessor of sociology at Rikkyo University.
Their research included thirty-seveninterviews conducted over three years aswell as surveys of maps, photographs, films,
and other materials. We learned that there
were black markets operated by several
groups at the Shinjuku east exit and thatthe market was roughly divided into areas
meeting daytime demand (food, snacks,and everyday goods) and nighttime
demand (drinking and amusements).
Photo 1 gives a macro view, from above,of the 120:1 scale model. We see ●❶ themarket that developed first along Shinjuku
Avenue, ●❷ the cluster of stalls in front of
Shinjuku Station, and ●❸ the market to thesouth of the station, with an impressive
arches at its entrances. To make the layout
easier to understand, buildings not part ofthe black market are painted gray.
In Photo 2, we see at 10:1 scale view thatgives an almost visceral feel of the atmosphereof the Shinjuku black market at night, basedon Professor Matsudaira’ s research. Pleaseexamine these models carefully. Details ofthe research can be found in Edo-Tokyo
Museum, ed., 1996, “Report on theresearch for the black market model andpreparation of the permanent exhibition
display,” Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo
Museum survey report II (Japaneseversion only). That report is available inthe library on the seventh floor of themuseum.
(Curator: Matsui Kaoru)

Special Exhibition

Five Ukiyo-e Favorites
UTAMARO, SHARAKU, HOKUSAI,HIROSHIGE, and KUNIYOSHI
Tuesday, November 19, 2019,
to Sunday, January 19, 2020Utagawa Hiroshige c. 1834-36 Minneapolis Institute of Art(On display / Tuesday, November 19, to Sunday, December15) Display period is subject to change.

Special Exhibition Gallery, 1F*Displays will be changed during the exhibition.

Photo: Minneapolis Institute of Art

Night Snow at Kanbara, from the series
Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

Information
Hours: 9:30 – 17:30 (until 19:30 on Saturdays). Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed: Mondays (except for January 13, 2020) and Saturday, December 28, through Wednesday, January 1, 2020.
Organaization: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum,The International Ukiyo-e Society, The Yomiuri Shimbun.
Admission:Admission Fee (tax included)¯ tani Oniji Ⅲas Edobei
The Actor O

Tōshūsai Sharaku c. 1794
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels(On display Tuesday, November 19, to Sunday, December 8)
Display period is subject to change.

In 2014, the museum organized the Ukiyo-e: A Journey Through the Floating World exhibition tocommemorate the twentieth anniversary of our opening. That exhibition introduced masterpiecesfrom throughout the history of ukiyo-e. Returning this topic, this exhibition focuses on popularukiyo-e artists—Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi—and presents exemplary
works by them in the nishiki-e (polychrome print) format.
The first section introduces Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1753-1806), who, in about 1793, developedthe ōkubi-e (prints presenting the head and torso, focusing on actors and beautiful women assubjects) and established his position as a master of bijinga or pictures of beautiful women. We
present many of his works from the Kansei era (1789-1801), when Utamaro was at his peak.
In the second section, we present actor prints by Tōshūsai Sharaku (n.d.). Sharaku made hisstriking debut as a ukiyo-e artist in May 1794. Both his technique of exaggerating actors’ facialfeatures in ōkubi-e and his own mysterious identity continue to attract great interest. Thisexhibition brings together his ōkubi-e in one setting for a not-to-be-missed experience.
Landscape and bird-and-flower prints by the world-famous artist Katsushika Hokusai(1760-1849) are the focus of the third section. Hokusai created many series of nishiki-e prints
after reaching the age of 70. Among them, his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series broke newground in the world of the landscape print. This exhibition introduces his Mount Fuji and othernishiki-e series.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), who is renowned for his One Hundred Famous Views of Edoand many other series, is represented in the fourth section by his landscape and bird-and-flower
prints. His The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series became a huge hit, making his name as amaster of the landscape genre. In this exhibition, his landscape series are joined by bird-and-flower
prints rich in the spirit of the seasons.
The final, fifth section introduces actor prints and caricatures by Utagawa Kuniyoshi(1797-1861). Kuniyoshi’ s dynamic compositions make use of the large picture plane formed byjoining multiple sheets. His works’ scale and his distinctive use of color were without precedent
among ukiyo-e artists. We hope you will enjoy this group of works in which he sought arecreational quality that made them highly popular among the common people.
This exhibition, focusing on the genres that exemplify the work of five ukiyo-e artists, is anukiyo-e exhibition with familiar content that everyone wants to see. Each section could stand on
its own as well worth viewing. Combined, they form an exhibition that might be said to be fivetimes the worth of ordinary exhibitions. The remarkable array of masterpieces selected for thisspecial exhibition are primarily works from the collections of museums outside Japan.
(Curator: Koyama Shūko)Special exhibition only

Special and permanentexhibition

Advance tickets forspecial exhibition only

¥1,400 (¥1,120)¥1,120 (¥890)¥700 (¥560)¥1,600 (¥1,280)¥1,280 (¥1,020)¥800 (¥640)¥1,200¥920¥500¥700 (¥560)

None

¥500

Standard adult
University/college students
Middle and high school students. Seniors 65+
Tokyo middle school students,
elementary school students

Notes:• Fees in parentheses are for groups of twenty or more.
• Fees are waived in the following cases: Children below school age and individuals with a Shintai Shogaisha Techo (Physical Disability
Certificate), Ai-no-Techo (Intellectual Disablity Certificate), Ryoiku Techo (Rehabilitation Certificate), Seishin Shogaisha Hoken Fukushi Techo(Certificate for Health and Welfare of People with Mental Disorders), or Hibakusha Kenko Techo (Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Certificate)and up to two people accompanying them.
• Silver Day (November 20, December 18, 2019, January 15, 2020): Free admission to special exhibitions for those 65 and older. Proof of age required.
• Advance tickets will be on sale until Monday, November 18. Tickets purchased on or after Tuesday, November 19 are at the regular price.
• Only same-day tickets are available during the exhibition period.

Ticket Sales:
Edo-Tokyo Museum, major ticket agencies, convenience stores (For joint tickets to both special and permanentexhibitions, Edo-Tokyo Museum only)

From the Permanent Collection Gallery
Featured Exhibition

Nagai Kafū and the Scenesof Edo-Tokyo
Wednesday, November 6, 2019, to Sunday,
January 5, 2020
Closing days: Mondays and Saturday,
December 28, to Wednesday, January 1
5F Urban Culture and Recreation Corner

The year 2019 is the 140th anniversaryof the birth of the literary master Nagai
Kafū and the sixtieth anniversary of hisdeath. To commemorate those events,
the museum is holding a special exhibitionin the Permanent Collection Gallery.
This exhibition introduces famousplaces from illustrated books of kyōka(satirical verse) that Kafū, who loved
Edo culture, researched for his Edo

Picture postcard: Ginza, Owaricho crossingNoël Nouet, artist; 1934

geijutsu ron (The arts of Edo) andlandscape prints that he liked and that
he mentioned in his collection of essays,
Hiyorigeta (Fairweather clogs). Throughpaintings and picture postcards from theEdo through the Showa periods, it
reveals the scenes that he noted in hisdiary (Danchōtei nichijō), scenes that
captured Kafū’s interest and aspects ofthe city depicted in his works.
(Curator: Yukawa Setsuko)

Related Program: Edo-Tokyo Seminar
Lectures on Nagai Kafū commemorating the 140th anniversary of
his birth and 60th anniversary of his death (5 lectures)

For details, see the Edo -Tokyo Museum Seminar leaflet or the museum’s website.