Edo-Tokyo Museum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Edo-Tokyo Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Perry & Harris Exhibition - The Dawn of U.S.-Japan Relations" Exhibition
After the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was signed in 1858, official trade between these two countries began. This so-called "Harris Treaty" became a turning point for (...)
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"Tensho-in Atsu-hime" Exhibition
Tensho-in Atsu-hime was a woman who lived in the period that spanned the turbulent closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. Born to the Shimazu family, she became the wife of the Tokugawa Shogun. In keeping (...)
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Hasui Kawase Exhibition
Fifty years have passed since the printmaker Hasui Kawase passed away. She was active from the Taisho to Showa periods, creating landscape prints. This exhibition presents her watercolor sketches and test (...)
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"Ieyasu, Yoshimune, Iesato - Tokugawa Family in Transition" Exhibition
With the support of the family, this museum has been researching the Tokugawa family archives and held various exhibitions on the results. This exhibition focuses on three figures who lived through the (...)
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"Siebold & Hokusai and his Tradition" Exhibition
Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) was the first painter who mastered Western style painting in Japan and established his unique method of expression. His Ukiyoe style not only attracted Japanese audiences, (...)
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"Literary Master, Soseki Natsume - Feeling & Vision" Exhibition
Soseki Natsume, one of the representatives of Japanese literature was born in Edo in 1867. The next year, Edo was renamed Tokyo and became the capital of Japan. Natsume's life would mirror the dramatic (...)
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Railway Exposition
Japanese railways have been developed since the Meiji period, along with the national period of modernization following World War II. Large population growth was seen in urban areas which brought changes (...)
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"The Great Treasures of the Russian Empire" Exhibition
The Kremlin in Moscow has been established as the center of Russian politics and culture since the 15th century. Especially in the Kremlin Museum, which was built for Alexandre I in 1806, there are 100,000 (...)
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"Edo Castle" Exhibition
This exhibition celebrates the 550th anniversary of the construction of Edo Castle by Doku Ohta, a retainer of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi family in the Sengoku Era. It would go on to become a political base (...)
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From the Boston Museum of Art Collection "The Allure of Edo"
American doctor William Bigelow amassed a great collection of ukiyoe paintings when he came to Japan in the Meiji Era. He donated most of them to the Boston Museum where they were called the 'phantom ukiyoe (...)
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Nobuyoshi Araki "Tokyo Life"
Born in the shitamachi (downtown) of Tokyo, Nobuyoshi Araki has spent over forty years photographing the people of Tokyo through the times. Photographs from the 1960s-70s that have never been released (...)
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Shi Huangdi and Terracotta Soldiers
An exhibition of sculptures, accessories, weapons, everyday tools and architectural relics from the Chunqiu era to Early Han, ruled by Emperor Wu Di. Please visit their website for further information (...)
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Hibari Misora and the Showa Period
Songstress Misora Hibari debuted right after the war and went on to produce hit after hit, becoming an icon of the Showa period in the process. This exhibition will display photographs and posters of (...)
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From the Morinaga Milk Caramel Collection: Memories of the Yellow Box
In celebration of June 10th, 'Milk Caramel Day', this exhibition will trace the history of post-war advertising through milk caramel posters, packages, and ads. When Morinagawa & Co. started selling (...)
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New Collection: Presents from City Residents
Last fiscal year, the Edo-Tokyo Museum received 9476 pieces from 58 people. This exhibition is held to express gratitude towards donors and promote further understanding of the museum's activities in collecting (...)
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Napoleon and Versailles
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's coronation, the world famous Napoleon collection from Versailles Palace Museum will be on show. Experience the changes that culture and society went through (...)
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Kazutoyo Yamanouchi and His Wife
This is a special exhibition in accordance to the NHK drama "Koumyogatuji", to introduce the Sengoku Era through the lives of Kazutoyo Yamanouchi, his wife, and other prominent women of the era. The (...)
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Beautiful Japan - Tourism in the 1910s-30s
This exhibition focuses on the ideas of "travel" and the "Japanese Beauty", based on the effort to promote the beauty of Japan toward foreign travelers starting in the 1910's. At that time, Japan was said (...)
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The Silk Road
In recent years, there have been many discoveries about the history of the Silk Road in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xian. Xinjiang is known as the strategic area, and Xian as the starting and (...)




