FOGG SHOWS COLLECTION OF RARE JAPANESE PRINTS

Through the generosity of Muneyohsi Yanags, N. Miura and P. Yamamoto, there is being held at the Fogg Art Museum a loan exhibition of Otsne, a type of Japanese folk painting made at the village of Otsn near Kyete. This early peasant painting is rare even in Japan.

This type of painting developed in the seventeenth century and is characterized by its broad, vigorous treatment in contrast to the delicacy of the Ukiyoe and its naivete and sense of humour. The Otsue were the forerunners of the Japanese print of the seventeenth century.