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17 Japanese paintings largely produced and exhibited in Tokyo in the 1930s—the early Shōwa era.
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Showa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s
Friday, Nov 6 (2009) 10:00a
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9:45p
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Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston,
MA
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Sixty thousand people died when an earthquake hit Tokyo around midday on Sept. 1, 1923. Another 36,000 were reported missing. Fearing a popular uprising, the government spread the rumor that the Koreans were about to attack, and their diversionary tactic worked. Six thousand Koreans and Chinese living in the city were duly massacred by panicked members of Tokyo’s working class. Such realities will be far from your mind when you visit “Showa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s,’’ a small but transporting exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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