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Tobacco & Salt Museum - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Tobacco & Salt Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Special Summer Exhibition: Animals and Salt
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- Media: Other - Other - Art Talk
- 2008-07-19 - 2008-08-31
The 30th anniversary summer holiday exhibition for children is all about animals and salt. Animals and humans need salt to maintain their life. The way to take in salt or the quantity of salt they need, (...)

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Jiro Omura "Stimulants from Around the World"
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-17 - 2008-07-06
Photographer Jiro Omura went around the world taking photographs of the different varieties of coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco consumed by locals. Over 130 works are on display.

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"Salt and Daily Use Bags, Dyed Textiles of Western Asia" Exhibition
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- Media: Crafts
- 2008-03-20 - 2008-05-06
The nomadic tribes of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, who lived in Western Asia beyond the western end of the Silk Road, used woolen salt bags with their unique tribal patterns woven into them. Salt was (...)

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"Edo Print Trendsetters Part 4 - End of Edo Era Ukiyo-e Prints and Artists" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints
- 2008-01-26 - 2008-03-09
Ukiyo-e prints published at the end of the Edo era often feature artwork similar to pictures in vogue or actual events. This has been attributed mainly to people's desire for images related to notable (...)

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"The Warmth of Japanese Glass from the Kounosuke Sakazaki Collection" Exhibition
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- Media: Crafts
- 2007-12-22 - 2008-01-25
Musician Konosuke Sakazaki ("The Alfee" member) who is know as an antiques lover selects about 50 Japanese antique glass works for this exhibition. Location: Museum 1F Entrance Hall

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"Nippon at the End of the Edo Period" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2007-11-23 - 2008-01-14
2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce that was drawn between the Tokugawa shogunate and the United States. The treaty officially symbolized Japan's opening of (...)

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"1950s-60s Japan - Searching for the Corner Tobacco Shop" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Film
- 2007-09-15 - 2007-11-11
In 1956, a Japanese economic newspaper columnist declared that Japan was finally emerging from the post-war era. The utter economic devastation of the country in the war had finally been overcome by rapid (...)

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"Fuzoku and Nikuhitsu Ukiyoe from the Museum Collection" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Digital
- 2007-04-14 - 2007-07-01
The Tobacco and Salt Museum collection begins in 1932 with the Finance Ministry's Monopoly Bureau's reference archives and comprises Ukiyoe prints, smoking tools, Nikuhitsu paintings (drawn by the artist (...)

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"Playing with Cloth the Japanese Way - The World of Crepe Crafts"
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- Media: Crafts
- 2007-02-10 - 2007-04-08
The practice of adding fine wrinkles to silk textiles, or 'chirimen', became widespread in Japan at the end of the 17th century. Left over or recycled cloth was often used to decorate small toys and utility (...)

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"Edo through Senryu and Ukiyoe" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Performance Art
- 2006-12-23 - 2007-02-04
The 167 issues of "Haifu Yanagidaru" that were published between 1765 and 1840 are regarded as the Bible of senryu, satirical Japanese poems. For this exhibition, poems were selected from "Haifu Yanagidaru" (...)

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