Upper Ground Floor (3)

Japan, Meiji period by Cheng Ting Ting and Cho Wing Ki (portion)
After his failure of first uprising in 1895, Dr Sun Yat-sen began a sixteen-year exile in Japan where he established his main revolutionary base, and he had the support of many Japanese. Later he set up the Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary Alliance) there. The most characteristic artistic style of the Edo to Meiji periods was undoubtedly the ukiyo-e woodblock prints, the colours and compositions of which also inspired the Impressionist school and Van Gogh in Europe. The ukiyo-e genre depicted Japanese customs and lifestyles in detail, and is aptly regarded as the representative feature of pre-modernist Japanese art.