In the Meiji Period, when the big wave of Western culture surged in, it also brought with it numbers of tourists and painters visiting Japan. The humble ways of life of the Japanese people and beautiful scenery made a deep impression on them, and prompted those visitors to produce excellent travel journals and paintings. Many landscape paintings, which depicted the beauty of Japan, went across the ocean with their memories of journey, and in recent years, some of them started finding their way home.
Many of young Japanese painters at that time were inspired by those foreign painters and made many wonderful creations. This exhibition introduces the honest and dignified radiance of “beautiful Meiji” through the collaboration of works of the visiting and domestic painters.