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Yayoi Museum - Past Events

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

"Maidens' Icons" Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Art Talk
- 2008-07-04 - 2008-09-28
The Yayoi Museum houses a lot of shojo-ga (illustrations depicting girls), also known as lyric illustration, by various artists including Kasho Takabatake, Koji Fukiya, Masao Kato and Junichi Nakahara. (...)

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Souji Omokawa Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Painting
- 2008-04-03 - 2008-06-29
Souji Omokawa became famous as an illustrator of adventure stories for children in the period just after World War II. His illustrations helped spark the imagination of children in the postwar period, (...)

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Kasho Takahata Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2008-01-03 - 2008-03-30
2008 marks the 120 anniversary of the birth of painter and illustrator Kasho Takahata, who enjoyed his peak in the late 1920s-early 1930s. Takahata specialized in doing paintings of young men and women, (...)

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"The Joy of Furoku" Exhibition
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- Media: Product
- 2007-10-04 - 2007-12-24
"Furoku" are games, posters and other supplements that appeared in Japanese magazines for young readers. This nostalgic exhibition brings together many examples of these from the 1950s and 60s.

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Motoichiro Takebe "The World of Eternal Heroes and Heroines - From Picture Story Shows to Sci-Fi Art"
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- Media: Illustration - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-07-07 - 2007-09-30
This is the first posthumous exhibition for this artist who had a wildly enthusiastic following for his exotic, detailed and lyrical portrayals of Sci-Fi heroes and heroines in the 1960s and 70s. After (...)

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Koji Fukiya "Feminine Beauty of Intellect and Senses: Fragrances of 1920s Paris and Japanese Lyricism"
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Art Talk
- 2007-04-05 - 2007-07-01
Fukiya debuted as a standard-bearer of Taisho Romanticism and was at the top of the illustration world in the Showa Era. He was also the lyricist who wrote the words to the children's song "Bride Doll" (...)

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Tatsumi Shimura "From Tange Sazen to Beautiful Women"
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Other
- 2007-01-03 - 2007-04-01
This retrospective exhibition is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of illustrator Tatsumi Shimura (1907-1980). Shimura studied Japanese paintings under Hidemine Yamakawa and gained fame (...)

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"Eitaro Takenaka and his Mysterious Illustrations" Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration
- 2006-09-30 - 2006-12-24
This exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eitaro Takenaka with original illustrations, works featured in magazines, and material from post-war works. Takenaka's illustrations (...)

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Hikozo Ito Commemorative Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Art Talk
- 2006-07-01 - 2006-09-24
Hikozo Ito's works depict men and women with bewitching beauty and swashbuckling sword fights. When he debuted at the age of 21, the public was mesmerized by his outstanding techniques. This exhibition (...)

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Katsuzhi Matsumoto Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration
- 2006-04-01 - 2006-06-27
Illustrator Katsuzhi Matsumoto（1904~1986）was one of the defining artists of the Showa period. His comical mangas, especially Kurumi-chan, were an instant hit, and he is *the* founder of Japanese character (...)

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Kids Paradise: 1920-30's Modern Kids' Life Seen Through Children's Books
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- Media: Illustration
- 2005-10-01 - 2005-12-25
1920-30's Japan saw a drastic Westernization and modernization in every level of life. This naturally affected children's environments, and many artists felt compelled to produce new kinds of children's (...)

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Rune Uchida
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- Media: Illustration
- 2005-07-01 - 2005-09-27
A first exhibition of Rune Uchida in 2002 highlighted how much his work had transcended the boundary of teenager culture and had had a strong and wide influence on our culture. A new batch of collectors (...)

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Schoolgirl Life in the Taisho and Showa Eras
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- Media: Illustration
- 2005-04-02 - 2005-06-26
That young maidens flock to the beauty and loveliness is timeless truth; however it was especially during the Taisho and early Showa periods that 'schoolgirl culture' truly blossomed. This was also the (...)

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Cruel Fate! Family Novels from the Meji-Taisho Period
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- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Other
- 2005-01-04 - 2005-03-29
The Meiji 30’s saw the growing popularity of ‘Family Novels’, melodramatic stories depicting the tragedies and conflicts faced by women in feudal families. They were serialized in daily papers, and were (...)

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Yoichiro Minami and his Book Illustrators
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- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Other
- 2004-09-30 - 2004-12-25
Yoichiro Minami (1893~1980) was an author who wrote mainly for children's magazines. Writing under three pen names, he published many novels ranging from adventure stories to bibliographies. He is also (...)

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