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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's print series 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon' shown at the Van Gogh Museum for the first time: warriors, lovers and mythical beings in bold colour.
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Each of these hundred prints has the moon in it somewhere. In some it hangs full over the scene; in others you only know it's there from the light falling on the figures. Yoshitoshi made the series between 1885 and 1892, as Japan modernised after two centuries of near-isolation, to keep the old stories alive: poets, samurai, courtesans and figures from Japanese and Chinese myth.
It's a small dossier show with the whole series, complete and in excellent condition, from the estate of collector Elise Wessels. The Dutch State accepted it in lieu of inheritance tax and placed it here. The link to Vincent is concrete: he owned five Yoshitoshi prints, and pinholes in their corners show he pinned them up to study.
There's no separate exhibition fee. Museum admission covers it (€25, €26 from 1 January, under-18s free), with timed entry booked online only. Fridays run until 21:00, and from 16 October the same ticket also gets you into the Whistler retrospective.
Under-18s get in free, but every visitor, children included, needs a timed ticket booked online.