Okada Museum Of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Okada Museum Of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Hokusai’s Paintings, with additional Woodblock Print and Shunga Masterpieces: Commemorating the 260th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
*Okada Museum Of Art will be open from May 30. 2020 marks the 260th anniversary of the birth of the world-renown Edo period ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). When hearing his name, people...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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Japan: Country of Gold Screens of the Kano, Hasegawa, Rinpa, and Other Schools
Consisting of a collapsible series of panels, the folding screen is an item of furniture that has distinctively evolved since originating in China and having been brought to Japan. In particular, elegantly...More »
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All-Stars of the Okada Collection: Masterworks of Korin, Jakuchu, Hokusai, Ru Ware Kilns
This exhibition marks the Okada Museum Of Art’s fifth anniversary and will present the best of its collection as the culmination of its activities since 2013. It brings together star artists who have been...More »
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“Tanaka Isson: A Proudly Independent Painter who Loved Amami”
In commemoration of the 110th year since his birth the Okada Museum of Art will for the first display its entire collection of works by Japanese-style painter Isson Tanaka. At age 50 Tanaka moved to Amami...More »
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Ninsei and Kenzan – Kyoto Pottery and Painting
Ninsei Nonomura and Kenzan Ogata were two important ceramics artists during the Edo period. The former perfected the Kyoto Kyoyaki style of painting in color on fired ceramics, creating masterpieces of...More »
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Utamaro’s “Fukagawa in the Snow” and “Flowers in Yoshiwara” – Reunited after 138 Years
The Edo-period Ukiyo-e painter Utamaro Kitagawa’s “Setsugekka” (Snow, Moon, Flowers) series is a hand-painted triptych. In 1989 it travelled to Paris for exhibition before its “Moon in Shinagawa” and “Flowers...More »
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Gallé Daum Art Nouveau Glass and Asian Aesthetics
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) and the Daum brothers, Auguste Daum (1853-1909) and Antonin Daum (1864-1930), were leaders of the burgeoning Art Nouveau style that swept across Europe at the end of the nineteenth...More »
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A Museum Journey: Traveling the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido through Hiroshige’s Prints
Hiroshige Utagawa’s “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido” (Hoeido edition) is actually a set of fifty-five Ukiyo-e prints which include the addition of the start and end points, Nihonbashi (Edo) and Sanjo...More »
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Jakuchu & Buson ― Celebrating Their 300th Birthdays with a Display of Edo Period Paintings
On January 14th, the Nikkei newspaper announced that the 18th century Nihonga painter Jakuchu Ito’s “Peacock and Phoenix” had been rediscovered after 83 years. The Okada Museum of Art now presents an exhibition...More »
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The Beauty of Traditional Japanese Porcelain and Elegant Edo Porcelain: The World of Ko-imari
The first porcelain in Japan was produced in Arita Town in the mountains of Hizen (Saga Prefecture today) at the beginning of the Edo period (1603–1868). Hizen porcelain was developed into the three major...More »
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The Entire Okada Collection of Rimpa: Hakone Joins the Rimpa 400 Year Celebration
Folding screens with attractive bluish-green and ultramarine paintings in grounds of gold, scrolls with calligraphic Japanese-style poems competing with gold and silver underpaintings, hanging scrolls...More »