Overview of the Meiji era kachoga collection from Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (2024)
Collection of Japanese engravings, albums and books from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest in Russia and is also significant in European scale. The basis for it was the collection transferred by a collector, naval sailor, amateur painter Sergei Kitaev (1864-1927) to the Rumyantsev Museum in 1916. Later received works of art were nationalized and became part of the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. During his stay in Japan, Sergei Kitaev independently or with help of his agents all around Japan acquired objects of decorative and applied art, engravings, books of various styles and periods.