Selected from the vast holdings of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, The Netherlands, this exhibition of seventy-five drawings and related prints by the master of Japanese printmaking utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) is the first major presentation of the artist's drawings in the United States. Although Kuniyoshi favored heroic and dramatic subject matter, his enormous output includes representations of many different subjects: landscapes, women, theatrical scenes, animals, and comic characterizations. Curated by the Rijksmuseum, the exhibition is circulating in the United States under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

image: Cats Drinking Tea, 1840s