During the Edo period, Dejima in present Nagasaki prefecture was the only window to modern foreign cultures, which introduced new expressions to Japanese paintings. Western-style expressions could be seen under the influence of European style painting technique in glass paintings and Nagasaki woodblock prints whose themes were foreign objects, optique pictures, and Doro-e, pictorial souvenir from Edo in thick and opaque pigments. This exhibition introduces Western style paintings and Doro-e of the second half of the Edo period which Soetsu Yanagi, founder of the Museum, called ‘crafted paintings’ and regarded as folk paintings.