Corfu Asian Art Museum, study and cataloguing of Japanese prints
The collection of Japanese prints held by the Corfu Asian Art Museum consists of about 6,200 works, mostly drawing on the Gregory Manos bequest of 1927 and Nikolaos Hatzivassiliou bequest of 1974. The prints, known by the term ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world” – a term originally related to a Buddhist view of the ephemeral nature of human existence – mainly depict Chinese and early samurai myths, everyday city life scenes during the Edo period, as well as portraits of geishas and couples, dating from the 17th to the 19th century. With the support of the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Corfu Museum of Asian Art has successfully undertaken the cataloguing and study of a part of the collection of Japanese prints with a view to present them to the Greek and international scientific community and to the general public. The museum’s immediate goal is to digitise and photograph its masterpieces of Japanese prints and publish them in a scholarly volume.
Grants given:
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
