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Exhibitions featuring Japan’s artistic treasures you can catch in November 2022

LAST UPDATED: Nov 10, 2022

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Tohoku Region

The Imperial Family and Japanese Aesthetics:
Art from Sannomaru Shozokan and Iwate

Oct 1 (Sat) – Nov 27 (Sun), 2022
Ichinoseki City Museum
(Ichinoseki, Iwate Pref.)

The ownership of the dagger in this photo can be traced back to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a powerful daimyo (feudal lord) of 16th-century Japan. (Yomiuri Shimbun photo taken on Sept. 30, 2022)
 
 

Tokyo

Tokyo National Museum:
Its History and National Treasures


Oct 18 (Tue) – Dec 11, 2022 (Sun)
Tokyo National Museum
(Ueno Park, Tokyo)

All 89 registered national treasures housed at the Tokyo National Museum are featured in “Tokyo National Museum: Its History and National Treasures,” the special exhibition now running at the museum in Tokyo’s Ueno Park. (Photo by Kazuki Matsuura)
 
 

The Resonance of
the Art Treasures:
The Seikado Collection


Oct 1 (Sat) – Dec 18 (Sun), 2022
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
(Marunouchi, Tokyo)

The Yohen Tenmoku (Inaba Tenmoku) tea bowl, a registered national treasure of Japan (From a press preview on Oct. 30, 2022)
 
 

Magnificent Maki-e

Tales of Urushi and Gold over a Thousand Years

Oct 1 (Sat) – Nov 13 (Sun), 2022
Mitsui Memorial Museum
(Nihonbashi, Tokyo)

From a press preview of the exhibition on Oct. 30, 2022
 
 

Kanto region (other than Tokyo)

The Beauty of Nature

Mar 6 (Sun) – Dec 18 (Sun), 2022
Okada Museum of Art
(Hakone, Kanagawa Pref.)

Chrysanthemums
Ogata Korin
Early Edo period, beginning of the 18th century
 
 

Chubu Region

Special Exhibition of
Genji Monogatari Emaki
(The Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls)

Nov 19 (Sat) – 27 (Sun), 2022

Tokugawa Night Museum PREMIUM

Nov 19 (Sat; One night only)
The Tokugawa Art Museum
(Higashi Ward, Nagoya)

National Treasure
Kashiwagi (The Oak Tree) II
from Genji Monogatari Emaki
(The Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls)
Heian period, 12th century
 
 

Kyoto / Nara

Chanoyu: Tea in the Cultural Life of Kyoto

Oct 8 (Sat) – Dec 4 (Sun), 2022
Kyoto National Museum
(Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto)

National treasure
Tea bowl, O-ido type, known as “Kizaemon”
Koho-an, Kyoto
 
 

The 74th Annual Exhibition
of Shōsō-in Treasures

Oct 29 (Sat) – Nov 14 (Mon), 2022
Nara National Museum
(Nara city)

[North Section 41]
Aromatic Log Used as Incense
 
 

Tracks of Samurai Government
– Rulers and Temples

Aug 8 (Mon) – Dec 11 (Sun), 2022
Jotenkaku Museum
(Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto)

Portrait of Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Color on silk, hanging scroll
Muromachi period
Jisho-in, Kyoto

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