The Japanese beauty that influenced Vincent

Take a look at a Van Gogh masterpiece and you may spot a cherry blossom or two

"To some extent all my work is based on Japanese art," Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother on July 15, 1888.

The artist had a personal collection of hundreds of Japanese works, and their influence on him is evident when you put some of his paintings alongside certain ukiyo-e, or woodcut prints, a genre that originated in the Edo period (1600s-1860s).