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    • A Group of Children Playing under the Plum Blossoms in the Snow, 1887
    Hashimoto Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838–1912)
    Woodblock print

    Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959 (JP3341)

    Japan's traffic with the West was energetic in both directions. Western traditions and needs merged with Japanese manufacture under Emperor Meiji's directive to Japan to participate in the wider economic world.

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  • Meech, Julia. "Early Collections of Japanese Prints and The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 17 (1982).
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  • A Group of Children Playing under the Plum Blossoms in the Snow, 1887
    Hashimoto Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838–1912)
    Woodblock print

    Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959 (JP3341)