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Sources and image credits: Yoshitoshi shows how Van Gogh looked at Japan

The exhibition brings the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon to Amsterdam. Pinholes in Van Gogh’s Japanese prints suggest that he did not only collect them: he also hung them up to study.

Sources checked on 12 October 2026.

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, title page of One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. A different impression from the Wessels collection series.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, title page of One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. A different impression from the Wessels collection series. Yoshitoshi / Wikimedia Commons · public domain · Image source

Yoshitoshi / Wikimedia Commons · public domain · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshitoshi_-_100_Aspects_of_the_Moon_-_Title_page.jpg

A print from One Hundred Aspects of the Moon; not the impression in the Wessels collection.
A print from One Hundred Aspects of the Moon; not the impression in the Wessels collection. Yoshitoshi / Wikimedia Commons · public domain · Image source

Yoshitoshi / Wikimedia Commons · public domain · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshitoshi_-_100_Aspects_of_the_Moon_-_4.jpg

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