Japanese Woodblock Prints and Collectors in the Czech Lands, a new book by Markéta Hánová just published by the National Gallery in Prague, offers the first comprehensive look at the history of the collecting of Japanese woodblock prints in Bohemia and Moravia, which tied in with the broader phenomenon of Japanese art collecting in Europe in the second half of the 19th century. This became one of the main sources of inspiration for Japonisme in art, which the author explored in a previous publication.
