Ôtsu-e. Imagerie populaire du Japon. Afrique du Nord interest in the picturesque and

interest in the picturesque and heritage

"A Thousand and One Nights of Antiquity" they open with a story from Genesis and end

each people engraved their ethnic identity by choosing the specific representations they displayed on its faces

which are now in Turin

Ôtsu-e. Imagerie populaire du Japon. Afrique du Nord interest in the picturesque andtsu e are Japanese folk paintings in a naive and spirited style, sometimes satirical or moral in nature, which were produced between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries by anonymous artisans in small towns around tsu, not far from Kyoto. They disappeared with the modernization of Japan and only a few hundred remain today. In 1920, a master seal engraver, Kusunose Nichinen, who lamented the loss of this unique testimony to the visual culture of