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Posted on: Sunday, November 9, 2008

Woodblock-print works on display

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This 20th-century painting of Shibaraku, the dramatic pause from a favorite Kabuki play, by a late Torii-school artist, was among the Richard Lane collection. On view through Feb. 1.

Courtesy Honolulu Academy of Arts

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Five years ago, the Honolulu Academy of Arts received more than 20,000 paintings, prints and rare books from Robert Lane (1926-2002), a scholar of Japanese art and literature of the Edo period.

After cataloguing the collection, the academy debuted works from the collection on Oct. 30, focusing on Lane's specialty, ukiyo-e (woodblock-print "images of the floating world").

"Robert Lane and the Floating World" will be on display through Feb. 1.

For more information, go to www.honoluluacademy.org.