Here’s to an artistic start of the week: over 1000 artworks brought online by 19 museums in Japan are now available on the Google Art Project!

Take a break and explore a wide range of art and crafts from different eras and areas —from Japanese paintings of the Edo and Meiji period to Venetian glass and impressionism— all on view at: http://goo.gl/KboJ47 thanks to museums such as the National Museum of Modern Art and Matsuhaku Museum.

Above: ‘Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Hoeido Edition “Yui (Satta Pass)”’ by Utagawa Hiroshige, Shizuoka city Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art, available in high resolution at: http://goo.gl/0DWpac