Literary magazine 'Bungei Kurabu' with a kuchi-e inside Source: National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA) in Canberra is holding an exhibition titled ' Melodrama in Meiji Japan ' until the 27th of August. It showcases collections of multi-coloured Japanese woodblock prints, known as kuchi-e (口絵), created during the Meiji period (1868-1912). Mayumi Shinozaki, the chief librarian of the Japanese unit for the Asian collections at the NLA, explains how well the beauty of Japan and the Japanese traditional sense of beauty were illustrated in kuchi-es and encourages people to discover or rediscover the particular sense of beauty through the 150 pieces of kuchi-es being exhibited.
The National Library of Australia (NLA) in Canberra is holding an exhibition titled ' Melodrama in Meiji Japan ' until the 27th of August. It showcases collections of multi-coloured Japanese woodblock prints, known as kuchi-e (口絵), created during the Meiji period (1868-1912). Mayumi Shinozaki, the chief librarian of the Japanese unit for the Asian collections at the NLA, explains how well the beauty of Japan and the Japanese traditional sense of beauty were illustrated in kuchi-es and encourages people to discover or rediscover the particular sense of beauty through the 150 pieces of kuchi-es being exhibited.
