Image: Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu
A special exhibition of Edo-period ukiyo-e prints has opened at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu, Japan, featuring works from the collection of an American billionaire and noted print collector identified in the source as Rockefeller. According to NHK News, the show brings together prints depicting flowers, birds and other subjects by artists of the Edo period.
The exhibition is presented as part of a collection described as belonging to one of the world’s leading print collectors. While the source does not provide additional biographical detail about the collector, it identifies the holdings as a Rockefeller collection and says the display is drawn from that group of works.
Among the works shown are Utagawa Hiroshige’s 'Tsubame no tokoroasobi' and Ito Jakuchu’s 'Meseikachō-zu'. The museum is presenting the prints as examples of the visual range of Edo-period printmaking, with motifs centered on birds and other natural subjects.
The report does not specify the full checklist, curatorial framework or duration beyond the exhibition’s opening date, but it makes clear that the exhibition is being held at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu. The institution, a prefectural art museum in Mie, is hosting the show as a current special presentation.
Ukiyo-e and related print traditions remain a major area of interest for museums and collectors because of their technical precision, popularity in the Edo period and continued influence on later art. The inclusion of works by Hiroshige and Jakuchu places the exhibition within a broad field of Japanese art history that spans landscape, observation of nature and highly refined image-making.
NHK’s report, published on July 23, 2026, notes that the exhibition opened that day. The source material does not mention closing dates, admission details or associated programming, leaving the confirmed public information focused on the venue, the collector and the works on view at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum.
