Ayanishiki Textile Beauty Appreciated in Nishijin
The Nezu Museum
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The Nishijin Textile Center (now the Kyoto City Archaeological Museum) held exhibitions for about a decade, starting in 1915, of textiles borrowed from eminent temples in the Kyoto area and textile collectors. Those exhibitions of famous works and secret treasures, from all over the world, were highly regarded. The organizers also selected particularly outstanding works from the exhibitions and published them in eleven volumes that reproduce the textile designs in prints and collotypes. That set of books is the Ayanishiki.
The Ayanishiki volume on Noh costumes and antique sarasa includes many mentions of Nezu Kaichirō, Sr. (1860-1940), who established the base of our museum’s collection, as an exhibitor. That source makes it clear that Kaichirō lent many textiles for those Taisho period (1912-1926) exhibitions; moreover, the designs reproduced in it let us identify which works he showed then.
In this exhibition, visitors can see 20 works from Kaichirõ’s collection that were reproduced in Ayanishiki and that can be confirmed to be part of the collection today. Please enjoy this sophisticated textile collection—a collection that even the textile artists and connoisseurs of modern Nishijin appreciated.
The Ayanishiki volume on Noh costumes and antique sarasa includes many mentions of Nezu Kaichirō, Sr. (1860-1940), who established the base of our museum’s collection, as an exhibitor. That source makes it clear that Kaichirō lent many textiles for those Taisho period (1912-1926) exhibitions; moreover, the designs reproduced in it let us identify which works he showed then.
In this exhibition, visitors can see 20 works from Kaichirõ’s collection that were reproduced in Ayanishiki and that can be confirmed to be part of the collection today. Please enjoy this sophisticated textile collection—a collection that even the textile artists and connoisseurs of modern Nishijin appreciated.
Schedule | Dec 20 (Sat) 2025-Feb 1 (Sun) 2026 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Online ticket: Adults ¥1300, University and High School Students ¥1000. | ||||
| Venue | The Nezu Museum http://www.nezu-muse.or.jp/en/  | ||||
| Location | 6-5-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit A5 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3400-2536 | ||||
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