Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)
HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Major, Gyula: Memorial Exhibition of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts: The Art of Asia
MÊÊÊÊKÈm Fig. 4. A detail of the Japanese Exhibition was doubled after World War II. The art of the Japanese sword is represented now by almost 100 full equipped swords (hatana and wakizashi ), 450 tsubas, 300 kozukas, 200 fuchi-kashiras and menukis. Beside this collection there are also other kinds of Japanese weapons derived partly from private collections, partly from purchase. Two complete armours were also to be seen in the exhibition, both of the seventeenth century. One of them is that of a daimyo, decorated with golden clasps (from the collection Montenuovo). An eighteenth century traveller's sedan chair (noriai) with golden fittings and gold lacquer decoration on black lacquer-ground and a gold- and silverinset large-size golden lacquer travelling box from the beginning of the nineteenth century also illustrated the industrial art of the Tokugawa age. At the world exhibition of Paris in 1900 and the Japanese exhibitions of Budapest in 1910 and 1911 the Museum of Industrial Art has purchased numerous modern Japanese works of art and industrial art by order of the Hungarian State. These objects were also transferred to the Museum of Far Eastern Art. More of them have been now exhibited, e. g. the screen of Iida Shinkichi, painted on the right and embroidered on the wrong side, and the famous peacock of Araki Kampo. We exhibited 50 choice masterpieces of the almost 1500 woodcuts of the Far Eastern Art Museum, purchased by Count Peter Vay for the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1900's and augmented since that time by 400 prints both through purchases and donations. By the most precious pieces of eminent masters the exhibition of Japanese colour prints illustrated the development of Japanese wood-engraving since the Hishikawa school up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Japan's pictorial art added nearly 400 pieces to our collection. The bulk of this material has been equally purchased for the state by Monsignore Vay.
