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MOMAT Collection
This exhibition introduces currents in Japanese modern and contemporary art from the end of the 19th century to the present along with a variety of works from other countries. The exhibition fills 13 rooms...More »
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Savoring the Rinpa Artists: Kōetsu, Sōtatsu, Kōrin, Kenzan, and Hōitsu
The Rinpa is a unique school of art that was perpetuated by artists who had an affinity with its style, starting in the early Edo period with Hon’ami Kōetsu and Tawaraya Sōtatsu being forerunners. Ogata...More »
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Five Ukiyo-e Favorites: Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi
In January 2014, a major special exhibition of ukiyo-e prints was held in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the museum, which presented some outstanding pieces of significance in...More »
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Motoaki Higashizono “Nihonga Sunbeam”
Motoaki Higashizono’s Nihonga paintings reflect ambivalence toward distinctions between tradition and innovation, the representational and the abstract, the real and the unreal. He considers using classical...More »
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The Works of Kyozo Kikugawa
An exhibition introducing the works and life of Kyozo Kikukawa, a little-known Japanese-style painter from Tochigi Prefecture who was active as the creator of duplicate illustrations of the world’s first...More »
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Winter Collection Exhibition “Performing Paintings”
These works from the museum collection explore expression through the human body and its movements. More »
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Shingo Horiguchi “Beast / Human / Machine”
Shingo Horiguchi creates his works by photographing models and drawings he makes, then digitalizing the images on a computer before using mineral pigments and other Nihonga materials to paint over them....More »
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National Treasure Pine Trees in the Snow and the Meiji Emperor: A Special Tea Ceremony at the Kyoto Exposition
In addition to the annual showing of Pine Trees in the Snow, this exhibition will mark the first year of the Reiwa Era by exhibiting pieces of the museum’s collection related to the emperor and the imperial...More »
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Visual Magic: Exhibition of Masterpieces from Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Commemorating the 170th Anniversary of Hokusai’s Death
To commemorate the 170th anniversary of Katsushika Hokusai’s death, our museum and Hokusai Museum, Obuse have joined together to organize a pair of exchange exhibitions. Hokusai Museum, Obuse is located...More »
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Uemura Shoen and the World of Bijinga, Paintings of Beautiful Women
Shoen Uemura (1875-1949) painted bijinga, paintings of beautiful women, throughout her life. Uemura became, in 1948, the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. To commemorate a decade since the...More »
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Yokohama Museum of Art Collection “Aspects of Japan’s 160-year Relationship with the West”
This exhibition of the museum’s collection, overlapping with the anniversaries of the Yokohama Museum of Art and the opening of Yokohama Port, reexamines the relationship between Japan and the West. Many...More »
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Yoshiyuki Nakano: A Retrospective “Affective Beauty and Rendezvous Beyond the Temporal”
In this exhibition, there are more than Japanese-style paintings of mainly flowers and birds, but also many works of Suiboku-ga (ink-wash painting) characteristic of Yoshiyuki Nakano as well. More »
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The Tokugawa Shogun and the New Artistic Age
The image of the shogun may be that of a heroic warrior. However, over the 260 years of Tokugawa government, the shogun also contributed to the art and culture of their times. 15 shogun were themselves...More »
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Painting and Spirit: Sumio Goto
Exhibiting 60 paintings plus sketches, photos, and documents to give a full overview of the life and work of the artist and monk Sumio Goto (b. Chiba, 1930), recipient of the Japan Art Academy Award and...More »
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Other Utagawas?! Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi, Toshihide, Eihou, and Tomoyo
The Utagawa School started by Toyoharu Utagawa is regarded as the largest faction in the Ukiyo-e world. Toyokuni followed Toyoharu, while Yoshitoshi followed Kuniyoshi under a different branch succeeded...More »
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Images of Asia: The East as Longed-For Other in Japanese Art
The half century from about 1910 to the 1960s was a period in which Japanese intellectuals, art lovers, and artists were fascinated by classic Asian art. An interest in things Chinese was part of Japanese...More »
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Sakurako & Shoko
Sakurako Hattori uses Nihonga painting techniques in works with familiar motifs that are fun to behold. Shoko Shimokawa explores the spaces between printing and drawing through a self-developed method...More »
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Nihonga Masters: Prints
Prints by major modern and contemporary Nihonga artists. More »
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Last Ukiyoe – Inheritors of Ukiyoe
Many people understand ukiyo-e as a culture of the Edo period. However, ukiyo-e was continuously produced until the end of the Meiji period, in the beginning of the 20th century. Since their artistic value...More »
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Forms with Prayers – Focusing on Okinawa Burial Urns
This exhibition introduces the museum’s new collection of Okinawa burial urns for the first time as well as various forms with prayers all over the world.More »
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Assorted Chocolates
In this exhibition, 13 artists and an artist duo across various artistic disciplines – anything from traditional lacquer work to chalk art – will be showing their original two-dimensional works inspired...More »
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Washi - Draw / Wrap / Fan
Washi paper has a history spanning back over 1000 years. This exhibition will introduce the techniques and culture of washi that culminated during the Edo Period, the influence of ukiyo-e engraving on...More »
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The Research Associate Exhibition 2019
This exhibition presents the results of the creative work and research produced by research associates in various laboratories at Musashino Art University. It presents the rich range of styles in which...More »
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Contemporary Nihonga Exhibition
This exhibition introduces masters and currently practicing artists who have left their mark on Nihonga painting from the Meiji through Showa eras.More »
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Ancient Artworks on Parade: Dogu, Haniwa, Pottery, Bronzes and More from Japan and China
This exhibition brings together approximately eighty ceramic and bronze pieces from ancient Japan and China. It also features Persian Ceramics, a genre that developed while being influenced by China. These...More »
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S+Arts Christmas Exhibition
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2019 MOMAS Collection 3
The third 2019 collection exhibition includes “Selection: Denis, Foujita & More,” “China in Modern Japanese Painting,” and “Shadow in Sway,” introducing pieces on a theme of light and shadow, trees,...More »
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Shohei Sawai Exhibition