Reading
- Exhibition information
- There are currently no plans to exhibit this artwork at the TNM Collection Exhibitions.
In 1903, when the World Exposition was held in Paris, the painter Asai Chū was sent to France by the Ministry of Education to study Western painting for two years. He painted [Reading] in the year he returned to Japan.
- Cultural property designation
- Quantity
- Artist
- By Asai Chū (1856–1907)
- Period/Century
- Meiji era, 1902
- Country/Origin
- Excavation site
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- Inscriptions
- Donor
- Gift of Mr. Takano Tokiji
- Collection reference no.
- A-12037
- Genre
- Painting
- Category
- Paintings, sketches, and prints > Japan > Modern paintings
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