The Keio University Media Center (Library) has participated as a partner to Google Arts and Culture’s "Meshiagare! Flavors of Japan" an extensive online exhibition that explores the depth of Japanese food, from culture, taste and ingredients. Our online exhibition provide access to digital images from the "George S. Bonn Collection of Ukiyo-e in the Meiji period" that is in its possession. It is planned for further pieces to be added to the online exhibition hereafter based around the "Bonn Ukiyo-e Collection."
Keio University Library on Google Arts & Culture
・ "George S. Bonn Collection of Ukiyo-e in the Meiji period"
The "Bonn Ukiyo-e Collection" is a collection of ukiyo-e prints from the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji era that were accumulated by Professor George S. Bonn (1913-2003) who taught at Keio University. He donated the collection to the Keio University Library in 1986. Professor Bonn transferred from his position at the New York Public Library to the Department of Library Science at the Keio University Faculty of Letters where he taught courses on library management and reference services from 1954 to 1955. He became interested in nishiki-e prints and picture books from the mid-19th to early 20th century after arriving in Japan, and continued to vigorously collect pieces during this and his subsequent visits to the country. Over 500 pieces of Meiji-era ukiyo-e prints from the Bonn collection can be viewed online at Google Arts & Culture, which is exhibiting the works under three separate themes (at the time of release).
http://dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/bon-ukiyoe/explanation