JAPAN IN TRANSITION

"The drawings in this exhibition date from the last two decades of the nineteenth century, at a time when Japan was in the throes of adjusting itself to the impact of Western culture. Designed to illustrate a number of novels, the drawings provide a rare insight into a country which on the one hand was maintaining old traditions and habits, while on the other looking outward to the new possibilities offered by the West." -- From text "The Impact of the West."