At the Kyoto National Museum, a special exhibition commemorating the Osaka-Kansai Expo, "Japan, a Melting Pot of Beauty - A History of Intercultural Exchange" is being held until Sunday, June 6th. This exhibition is limited to Kyoto and will not be traveling.
Important Art Object Haniwa (clay figure) - Boy carrying a hoe - Excavated from Wakiyacho, Ota City, Gunma Prefecture - Kofun period 6Century Kyoto National Museum Collection [Exhibition throughout the year]
National Treasure, Hosohana Karyobinga Makie 𡑮 Booklet Box, Heian Period, Enki19Years(919) Courtesy of Ninna-ji Temple, Kyoto [Exhibition throughout the year]
The exhibition features 19 items, including 53 national treasures and 200 important cultural properties. Items that tell the story of cross-cultural contact include the "Artifacts excavated from the No. 3 wooden coffin tomb at the Yoshitake Takagi Ruins," which includes a bronze mirror and weapons made on the Korean peninsula, lacquerware and ukiyo-e highly praised in Europe, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's battle surcoat, which uses interior decorations made in a Persian court workshop.
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Fine Wind, Clear Weather, Painted by Katsushika Hokusai, Edo Period, Tenpo 2(1831)Collection of the Hagi Museum of Art and Urakami Memorial Museum, Yamaguchi Prefecture [First half of the exhibition ■In the second half of the exhibition, works from the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi will be on display.]
National Treasure Wind God and Thunder God Screen by Tawaraya Sotatsu, Edo Period 17Century, owned by Kenninji Temple, Kyoto [Exhibition throughout the year]
Highlights of the exhibition include well-known iconic works of Japanese art such as Hokusai Katsushika's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Sotatsu Tawaraya's Wind and Thunder Gods Screen, as well as the original copy of Histoire de l'Art du Japon, which showcased the Japanese art that the Meiji government wanted to show to the world. Also not to be missed is the first public display of a picture scroll created collaboratively by a Japanese painter and a member of the Korean envoys.
Important Cultural Property San-sai bone vessel, excavated from the Nakoso Tomb in Hashimoto City, Wakayama Prefecture, Nara period 8Century Kyoto National Museum Collection [Exhibition throughout the year]
Celadon Ring Flower Tea Bowl, Inscribed, Rivet, China, Southern Song Dynasty 13Century Aichi Masspro Museum of Art [Exhibition throughout the year]
This exhibition reexamines Japanese art from the perspective of "exchange." Why not experience the adventure of looking at Japanese art as seen by the world, as Japanese art that the world wanted to see, and as Japanese art that encountered the world, through these masterpieces?
◆Special exhibition in commemoration of the Osaka-Kansai Expo: "Japan, the melting pot of beauty - A history of intercultural exchange"
[Period] April 2025th (Sat) - May 4th (Sun), 19
[Venue] Kyoto National Museum Heisei Chishinkan (527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City)
[Opening hours] 9:00-17:30 (until 20:00 on Fridays, admission until 30 minutes before closing)
[Closed] Mondays
