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The Namazu-e Album at the Royal Ontario Museum and Its Online Exhibition
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The Namazu-e Album at the Royal Ontario Museum and Its Online Exhibition

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada, owns an accordion-style album containing eighty-seven woodblock prints depicting and satirizing social situations after a large earthquake hit the city of Edo (today’s Tokyo) in 1855. An online exhibition of this album, Aftershocks: Japanese Earthquake Prints, which displays a selection of forty-two prints, was launched on the ROM website in November 2022 and will be available for several years.

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