Musée No:218.022 flower At the beginning of the

At the beginning of the 20th century international travel was very difficult for Japanese artists and no one is entirely sure how he managed it - one theory is that work he did for an export company in the 1870s may have provided him with the necessary contacts

were the most important artists of "ontbijt" or the dinner piece

He was one of the few woodblock prints and paintings artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime

an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids

Musée No:218.022 flower At the beginning of theEagle In A Tree Artist: Watanabe Seitei Date: 1887 Watanabe Seitei (also Watanabe Shtei) 1851 1918 was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style. Nihonga was a movement in the early 1900s with the aim of updating and developing a more modern Japanese style but in keeping with the traditional Japanese conventions and techniques. It emphasized the importance and beauty of the thousand year old traditional style whilst distinguishing it from the more