Purchase of the Price Collection by the Idemitsu Museum of Arts

On June 24, the Idemitsu Museum of Arts (Marunouchi, Tokyo) announced that it had purchased 190 items from the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection, American collectors of Edo paintings over the years, including ITŌ Jakuchū’s ‘Birds, Animals, and Flowering Plants in Imaginary Scene’, a screen painting where plants and animals are depicted using a different arrangement of squares and colors. The couple had hoped to pass part of their collection to Japan due to their advanced age. (Japanese)