Museo d'arte orientale Edoardo Chiossone

Museum Genoa, Italy

The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa, located in Villetta Di Negro, is one of the most important collections of Oriental art in Europe and the most important in Italy. It preserves the entire collection of the painter and engraver Edoardo Chiossone, a native of Arenzano (in the province of Genoa) but who, after spending his youth in Florence, spent a good part of his life in Japan, directing the Imperial Workshop of papers and securities of Tokyo.