Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2pm

Nikkei National Museum

Admission: $3 Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre members, seniors, students | $5 regular

The prints exhibited in the UKIYOE SPECTACULAR are a virtual gold mine of illustrations of Japanese folk beliefs, customs and playful imagination.

Examples from the xhibition will be highlighted to illustrate logographic word play (moji-asobi), pictures composed of kanji and/or kana (moji-e), cat lore and monster lore, whole creatures presented as parts of larger whole creatures, and playful teaching tools.