I refer, of course, to the Japanese Gallery at 66D Kensington Church Street, London W8, which have for years held four well-received selling exhibitions annually of Japanese woodblock prints.
Their current show, which closes at the end of August, offers a series of Life in the Chiyoda Palace by Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912).
There are 60 prints in the show priced from £120 to £400. This portrait, right, of a court lady published by Matsuki Heikichi in 1897 costs £120.
Palace life for the print pioneers
THE considerable coverage given to Asia Week in London, on these pages and in the national press, rather neglected one gallery which was bringing the art of the Orient to London long before the Asia week promotion was thought of.