Since ancient times, encounters between different cultures have given rise to new expressions and cultures.
This corner will display works that represent such examples.

Shotei Hokuju, "Scenery of Ochanomizu in the Eastern Capital," Late Edo Period
During the Edo period, Japan was isolated from the outside world, and people could not come into contact with foreign cultures. Even in such circumstances, ambitious artists continued to develop new forms of expression using the limited information available.

Katsushika Hokusai was one of them, and produced many landscape paintings incorporating techniques from overseas painting.
Hokuju, a disciple of Hokusai, inherited his style, and even after Hokusai began painting other types of paintings, he continued to produce works that incorporated techniques from Western landscape painting.

When viewed from our current perspective, it may look like a typical Japanese ukiyo-e print, but the work boldly makes use of perspective and shading techniques that are characteristic of Western painting, and would have seemed like an extremely new style of expression at the time.