Welcome to Edo! Children depicted in Ukiyo-e prints (Chiba City Museum of Art)

Would be summer vacation planning.

At Chiba City Museum of Art, a collection of ukiyo-e depicting children, exhibition was held.

It seems the picture of the children of Europe, anyway, so focus being placed upon it that, draw cute.

By contrast, if you look closely the children depicted in Ukiyo-e, cute, to be sure, but how to draw his face, I just reduce the face of adults basically.

Rather, and the gesture, in a context that is drawn, I have to express the fact that child.

If you look at the play of the children depicted in Ukiyo-e, turning kite flying, coma, stilts, and battledore.

If you think about it, children around their own, mostly, it was a play similar.

Currently, game consoles, such as the smartphone, Sekaitoha of ukiyo-e, play completely different has become mainstream.

Among the exhibits, there were many ukiyo-e "What do our people" called. Dzukushi fish, insects Dzukushi, Dzukushi tools, etc. potted Dzukushi,.

They are now also possible to cut out, play, or even just looking at the picture, it is possible to learn a lot from it.

In the background of the height of the educational level of the Edo period, would have had the presence of these ukiyo-e itself.

It thinks boasts a rich ukiyo-e collection, works that have been exhibited, whether exhibition from the collections of the museum, surprisingly, Kumon Educational Research Association, that is, the most was that of the Kumon group.

In Kumon group, you are publishing on HP agonized children Ukiyo-e Museum, the ukiyo-e collection that Kumon Educational Research Association held.