National Treasures of To-ji Temple; Kukai and the Sculpture Mandala
March 26, 2019 to June 22, 2019
Tokyo National Museum
Past Exhibitions
Boars Galore: Celebrating the Year of the Wild Boar
December 18, 2018 to January 27, 2019
Kyoto National Museum
Unrivaled Calligraphy: Yan Zhenqing and His Legacy
January 16, 2019 to February 24, 2019
Tokyo National Museum
A Tale of Expelling the Demon: The Shutendōji Picture Scroll
January 10, 2019 to February 17, 2019
Nezu Museum
The Poetry of Nature: Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection
February 27, 2018 to January 21, 2019
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Living Clay: Artists Respond to Nature
March 23, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Daigoji Temple: A Shingon Esoteric Buddhist Universe in Kyoto
January 29, 2019 to March 24, 2019
Kyushu National Museum
Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated
March 5, 2019 to June 16, 2019
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art
April 9, 2019 to June 30, 2019
Cleveland Museum of Art
Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection
November 4, 2018 to January 27, 2019
Art Institute of Chicago
Hands and Earth: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
March 9, 2019 to January 5, 2020
Crow Museum of Asian Art
Tsuruya Kōkei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited
February 8, 2019 to July 14, 2019
USC Pacific Asia Museum
In Search of Profound Beauty: Ink in Every Nook and Corner
June 1, 2019 to July 28, 2019
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
August 10, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Nature and Nostalgia in Early 20th-Century Japanese Art
January 29, 2019 to June 16, 2019
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Love Affairs: The Tale of Genji in Japanese Art
August 18, 2018 to March 10, 2019
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Genius of Ike no Taiga: Carefree Traveler, Legendary Painter
April 7, 2018 to May 11, 2018
Kyoto National Museum
Touring Japan through Landscape Prints by Kawase Hasui
May 19, 2018 to August 5, 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Excavating the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama
March 4, 2018 to July 22, 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Boundless Peaks: Ink Paintings by Minol Araki
October 7, 2017 to June 24, 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection
December 23, 2017 to May 13, 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture
October 7, 2017 to June 24, 2018
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Styles of Play: The History of Merrymaking in Art
June 26, 2019 to August 28, 2019
Suntory Museum of Art
Painting the Classics: Japanese Scrolls and Beyond
November 24, 2018 to May 19, 2019
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
The Way of the Kami
May 11, 2019 to November 11, 2019
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Nostalgic Femininity: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the St. Catherine University Archives & Special Collections
April 13, 2019 to May 26, 2019
The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University
The Treasures of Engaku-ji:
Art in Kamakura Zen Temples
April 20, 2019 to June 23, 2019
Mitsui Memorial Museum
“Four Treasures of the Study — The Essentials for Chinese Literati Culture”
April 6, 2019 to June 30, 2019
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
The Buddhist Sculptures of Daiho’onji, Kyoto:
Masterpieces by Kaikei and Jokei
April 23, 2019 to June 16, 2019
Kyushu National Museum
A Fleeting Bloom
Japanese Art from the Collection
September 8, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)
Potter Kawai Kanjiro: Works from the Kawakatsu Collection
April 26, 2019 to June 2, 2019
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Masterpieces of Japanese Art:
From Sesshu and Eitoku to Korin and Hokusai
May 3, 2019 to June 2, 2019
Tokyo National Museum
Memories of Japan:
From the collection of Svyatoslav Richter and
the funds of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
March 21, 2019 to June 19, 2019
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Sviatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment
Art of the Sun ーTarō Okamoto’s Public Artー
February 27, 2019 to June 23, 2019
Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
The 130th anniversary of his birth Takano Shozan
ー Virtuoso technique of Urushi ー
April 27, 2019 to July 3, 2019
Eisei Bunko Museum
Traveling on the Edo Highways:
A Journey of Shogun and Princesses
April 27, 2019 to June 16, 2019
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Spring Special Exhibition
– a selection of works by Raku successive generations:
Reflecting on Mount Fuji
March 16, 2019 to June 30, 2019
Raku Museum
Celebration for a New Era –Reviewing Past Eras through Master Paintings–
Japanese Painting in Meiji, Taisho and Showa
August 31, 2019 to November 30, 2019
Adachi Museum of Art
The Elegance of Hosokawa: Tradition of a Samurai Family
April 4, 2019 to July 16, 2019
Weltmuseum Wien
Koji Kamoji. Silence and the Will to Live
April 13, 2019 to June 30, 2019
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Kodomo No Kimono:
Children’s kimono from the collection of Kazuko Nakano
May 7, 2019 to August 25, 2019
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Japanese Bamboo Art from New York: The Abbey Collection
September 13, 2019 to December 8, 2019
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Crafts Gallery
Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Yūsei Horie – The Artist from Izumo who Challenged “Miyako”
April 24, 2019 to June 3, 2019
Shimane Art Museum
Yuki Ogura and the Painters of the Japan Art Institute
From the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
June 28, 2019 to August 26, 2019
Shimane Art Museum
Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Yokohama Museum of Art,
the 150th Anniversary of the Collector’s Birth and the 80th Anniversary of His Death
The Eye of a Connoisseur: The Legendary Hara Sankei Collection
July 13, 2019 to September 1, 2019
Yokohama Museum of Art
Humorous! Witty! The Playful Ukiyoe Collection
April 12, 2019 to June 19, 2019
Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido
Compete in beauty: World of Ukiyo-e Painting from the Hikaru Museum Collection
April 27, 2019 to June 9, 2019
The Museum of Kyoto
330 Years since Oku no Hosomichi, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The World of Bashō
August 31, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Introduction to Ceramics — Enjoying Color, Design and Form
November 23, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Kanō School — The Eyes and Hands that Controlled the Painting World
February 11, 2020 to March 1, 2020
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Indigo Shibori -the works of Motohiko Katano
April 2, 2019 to June 16, 2019
The Japan Folk Crafts Museum
Imari Porcelain
Brocades of Translucent Colour
October 13, 2018 to September 29, 2019
National Gallery of Victoria; NGV International
Silent Beauty: Nordic and East-Asian Interaction
June 14, 2019 to October 6, 2019
Ateneum Art Museum
- the Finnish National Gallery
Oscar Oiwa Journey to the Light
April 27, 2019 to August 25, 2019
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Yokoyama Nami Memories of Love and Me
April 6, 2019 to June 30, 2019
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Koichi Sato: Third Landscape
April 6, 2019 to September 23, 2019
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Awazu Kiyoshi: What Can Design Do?
May 18, 2019 to September 23, 2019
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Japan:Country of Gold
Screens of the Kanō,Hasegawa,Rinpa and Other Schools
April 6, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Okada Museum of Art
Ōsawa Kōmin (Living National Treasure)
～The Great Skill & Beauty of His Works
April 19, 2019 to June 25, 2019
MOA Museum of Art
Shizen-fu (Natural fabrics) －Weaving Plant Fiber Cloth－
March 2, 2019 to July 15, 2019
The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
Depicting Flowers, Birds, Insects and Fish—Okyo, Hiroshige and Siebold
April 1, 2019 to June 2, 2019
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi
A History of Japanese Print Works Traced through the Kuboso Collection
June 23, 2019 to August 18, 2019
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi
Earth Attack: A Large-Scale Collaboration by 10 Artists
November 1, 2019 to December 25, 2019
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
The Melody of Shining Silk Strings: Embroidery by Kusano Shizuka
June 29, 2019 to July 15, 2019
Matsuzakaya Museum
Fallen Flowers, Unfinished View: Installation by Takakita Yukiya
May 18, 2019 to July 15, 2019
Tamesaburo Memorial Museum of Furukawa Art Museum
The Spirit of A Painter: Getting to Know Uemura Shōen Through Her Sketches and Drawings
July 13, 2019 to October 6, 2019
Shouhaku Art Museum
The World of Man’yōshū: Original Illustrations from “Nukata no Ōkimi”
December 7, 2019 to February 20, 2020
Shouhaku Art Museum
Scenes of Battle—Depictions of Brave Warriors of the Past
July 27, 2019 to September 8, 2019
The Tokugawa Art Museum
Daimyō Collectors—Ceramic Masterpieces of the Owari Tokugawa Household
September 15, 2019 to November 10, 2019
The Tokugawa Art Museum
The Beauty and Diversity of Classical Japanese Musical Instruments
November 16, 2019 to January 31, 2020
The Tokugawa Art Museum
The Doll Festival in the Owari Tokugawa Family
February 8, 2020 to April 5, 2020
The Tokugawa Art Museum
The Timeless Appeal of “Kawaii” / “Cute” Culture
February 8, 2020 to April 5, 2020
The Tokugawa Art Museum
Japanese Bamboo Art From New York: The Abbey Collection Gifts to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 8, 2019 to June 30, 2019
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Golden Age of Edo Ukiyo-e
The Ukiyo-e Utagawa School
– From Toyoharu to Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige -
September 20, 2019 to October 27, 2019
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Japanese Aesthetics – Swords and Metalworks -
September 27, 2019 to October 22, 2019
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Special Exhibition
The Thirty-Six Immortal Poets
Elegant Arts of the Classical Japanese Court
October 2, 2019 to November 24, 2019
Kyoto National Museum
Feature Exhibition in Celebration of ICOM Kyoto 2019
Masterworks of the Kyoto National Museum
Temple and Shrine Treasures
August 14, 2019 to September 16, 2019
Kyoto National Museum
Special Thematic Exhibition;
Sacred Images of Ancient Japan: Buddhist Sculptures from Four Temples in Nara
June 18, 2019 to September 23, 2019
Tokyo National Museum
Special Exhibition
The Muromachi Shoguns: Involvement of fifteen Ashikagas in wars and arts
July 13, 2019 to September 1, 2019
Kyushu National Museum
Shimada Tadashi: Wild Moments
The World of Beautiful Birds
July 23, 2019 to September 23, 2019
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Rakuyo Sanjusan-sho 4 (Rakuyo 33 Pilgrimage Vol.4)
June 29, 2019 to August 25, 2019
The Museum of Kyoto
Summer exhibition of the selected museum collection
Shape of Animals
June 22, 2019 to August 4, 2019
The Gotoh Museum
Short Program
Dreamed Japan, Images of the Floating World
February 22, 2019 to December 31, 2019
Atelier des Lumières
Bijinga: Paintings of Beauty in Modern Japan
May 25, 2019 to July 15, 2019
Kodansha Noma Memorial Museum
‘Edo Blue’ in Imari Ware
(in cooperation with the Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
July 2, 2019 to September 22, 2019
Toguri Museum
A Rare Glimpse into the Museum’s Lesser-known Collection
May 24, 2019 to July 7, 2019
The Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Special Exhibition: Sacred Landscapes
—Images of Temples and Shrines in the Chusei Period
October 5, 2019 to November 17, 2019
The Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Special Exhibition: The Beauty of Merriment
—The Hikone and Matsuura Screens
November 2, 2019 to December 25, 2019
The Museum Yamato Bunkakan
New Year (Spring) —Plum and Cherry Blossoms Artwork
January 5, 2020 to February 16, 2020
The Museum Yamato Bunkakan
The Art of Vegetables, Fruits, and Seafood
February 21, 2020 to April 5, 2020
The Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Summer Exhibition – What is Raku?
Tea Bowls – Texture – Warmth
July 6, 2019 to August 18, 2019
Raku Museum
In Commemoration of the Enthronement
The 71st Annual Exhibition of Shōsō-in Treasures
October 26, 2019 to November 14, 2019
Nara National Museum
The Buddhist Sculpture of Hōtoku-ji Temple:
A Tale of the Journey of Buddhist Divinities through Modernity
July 13, 2019 to September 8, 2019
Nara National Museum
Kitaoji Rosanjin―The Renaissance of Japanese Ceramics:
The Path to Contemporary Art
July 2, 2019 to August 25, 2019
Chiba City Museum of Art
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
June 8, 2019 to July 28, 2019
Shizuoka City Museum of Art
Tetsuya Ishida
Self-portrait of Other
April 12, 2019 to September 18, 2019
Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
Ota Kijiro and Fujii Koji:
A Painter and an Architect Pursuing Light in Japan
July 13, 2019 to September 8, 2019
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Chōkai Seiji and His Generation: Seto no yama on view for the first time in half a century
June 29, 2019 to September 23, 2019
The Hiratsuka Museum of Art
Anno Mitsumasa: Picture Books and Works of Design
July 6, 2019 to August 25, 2019
The Hiratsuka Museum of Art
Fujifilm Square Photo History Museum Exhibition
The Story of Seibei Kajima, the “Millionaire Photographer” in the Meiji Period
June 1, 2019 to August 31, 2019
Photo History Museum
Life with blue – Kimono, pottery and daily articles
July 2, 2019 to July 28, 2019
Ōta Memorial Museum of Art
Observation: Artists Confronting the Wonder of Looking Intently
July 13, 2019 to September 16, 2019
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Emancipation of Humanity:
Focusing on Works by Female Artists
June 18, 2019 to October 20, 2019
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MoMAT)
Special Display of Rediscovered Tsukiji Akashi-cho Town of Kaburaki Kiyokata
November 1, 2019 to December 15, 2019
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MoMAT)
The World of Tomino Yoshiyuki: A Retrospective of Legendary Anime Director
―Gundam, Ideon, and Now
June 22, 2019 to September 1, 2019
Fukuoka Art Museum
Takemiya Keiko 50th Anniversary Exhibition “Kaleidoscope”
April 27, 2019 to September 8, 2019
Kyoto International Manga Museum
Tezuka Osamu: 90th Anniversary of Birth
June 15, 2019 to August 25, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
Works by Imperial Household Artists – cloisonné
May 25, 2019 to August 18, 2019
Kiyomizu San’nenzaka Museum
Beauty of Kotohogi: Auspicious Symbols in the Treasure of Shōkokuji
July 6, 2019 to September 16, 2019
Shokokuji Jotenkaku Museum
Toko Shinoda:
Things Transient – Colors of Sumi, Forms of the Mind
August 11, 2019 to October 4, 2019
Kosetsu Museum of Art
Takahata Isao: A Legend in Japanese Animation
July 2, 2019 to October 6, 2019
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MoMAT)
TOP Collection
Reading Images: The Time of Photography
August 10, 2019 to November 4, 2019
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Here, Another Night Comes from Trillions of Light Years Away:
Eternal Infinity
April 4, 2019 to August 31, 2019
Yayoi Kusama Museum
Japan Heritage Designation Memorial Exhibition
2000 Years of Kikuchi River: Battles and Faith of the Kikuchi Clan
July 19, 2019 to September 1, 2019
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
Decorative Designs on Daily Items of Daimyo Lords
August 31, 2019 to October 9, 2019
Eisei Bunko Museum
This Is Japan In Kyoto
From The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection
August 25, 2019 to September 29, 2019
The Museum of Kyoto
Invitation to Different Worlds – Specters, the Spiritual World and Foreign Countries
August 2, 2019 to August 28, 2019
Ōta Memorial Museum of Art
Kumagai Morikazu: Cherishing All Lives
August 2, 2019 to September 23, 2019
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Fujimoto Yoshimichi:
The Centennial of the Birth of a Master of Overglaze Enamels on Porcelain
August 3, 2019 to December 1, 2019
Musée Tomo
Yukata: Colors and Designs to Cool Off in Summer
July 20, 2019 to September 8, 2019
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Legendary Kyoto Painting from Maruyama Okyo to the Modern Era
August 3, 2019 to September 29, 2019
The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
Shigaraki Palace and the Gods and Buddhas of the Kōka Region
July 27, 2019 to September 1, 2019
Miho Museum
ICOM Kyoto 2019 Commemorative
The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde in 1950s-1980s
August 3, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Churashima Textiles－the Magic of Color and Pattern
August 10, 2019 to September 23, 2019
The Shoto Museum of Art
The World of Yamamoto Nizo, Master of Japanese Animation Art Director
July 13, 2019 to September 16, 2019
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Utagawa Toyokuni – A man who surpassed Sharaku
September 3, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Ōta Memorial Museum of Art
Special Exhibition
The Tea Ceremony in Edo
Commemorating the Tricentennial of the Birth of Kawakami Fuhaku
November 16, 2019 to December 23, 2019
Nezu Museum
The 50th anniversary of the Suntory Foundation for the Arts
Mino Tea Wares: Kiseto, Setoguro, Shino, and Oribe
September 4, 2019 to November 10, 2019
Suntory Museum of Art
Crowning Glory: The Beauty of Ladies’ Ornaments from Asia and Europe
September 17, 2019 to February 27, 2020
Liang Yi Museum
Commemorating 30 Years of Conservation Projects Supported by the Sumitomo Foundation Special Thematic Exhibition:
New Life for Timeless Art
September 10, 2019 to October 27, 2019
Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum, Tokyo
Commemorating 30 years of Conservation Projects by The Sumitomo Foundation: New Life for Timeless Art
September 6, 2019 to October 14, 2019
Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum
Commemorating 30 years of Conservation Projects by The Sumitomo Foundation:
New Life for Timeless Art
September 10, 2019 to November 4, 2019
Kyushu National Museum
Journey Through “Nippon” with Hiroshige and Hokusai:
From the Leskowicz Collection
August 27, 2019 to October 20, 2019
Hosomi Museum
The Exhibition of Samurai: Lineage of the Mononofu’s Esthetics
September 7, 2019 to November 4, 2019
Fukuoka City Museum
Buddhist Sculpture from China to Japan
October 12, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the municipal system of Ikeda City “Goshun is Reborn!”
— Revival of A Painter in Ikeda
September 14, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Itsuo Art Museum
Celebrating museum renewal anniversary
Best of Museum Collection Part 2
“Extravagance and simplicity of Momoyama Edo”
September 27, 2019 to October 28, 2019
MOA Museum of Art
The Masters of Ukiyo-e:
Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi
From the Collection of Ei Nakau
September 8, 2019 to November 11, 2019
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Hagio Moto SF Artworks:
Playing in the Space, Flying into Different World
September 7, 2019 to November 4, 2019
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
Admiration for Landscapes ― Meishō Hakkei, Eight Scenic Views
October 5, 2019 to November 10, 2019
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Images of Asia: The East as Longed-for Other in Japanese Art
October 12, 2019 to January 13, 2020
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
A Treasure Chest of Japanese and East Asian Art:
Masterpieces from the Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi
October 5, 2019 to November 24, 2019
The Shoto Museum of Art
Autumn exhibition of the selected museum collection:
Dynamism in Ink and Brush
August 31, 2019 to October 20, 2019
The Gotoh Museum
Aesthetic Transition (Transition Period): Calligraphy, Painting and Craftworks
in East Asia from the 16th to the 17th Century
October 26, 2019 to December 8, 2019
The Gotoh Museum
Jakuchū and the Fine Arts of Kyoto: Treasures of Hosomi Museum Collection
September 14, 2019 to November 10, 2019
Akita Museum of Modern Art
Special Exhibition to Commemorate 1400th Anniversary of the Death
Faith in Prince Shōtoku:
Foundation of Kamakura Buddhism and Treasures of Jōdo-ji Temple, Onomichi
September 21, 2019 to November 17, 2019
Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum
Works by Imperial Household Artists – Sculpture
August 24, 2019 to November 17, 2019
Kiyomizu San’nenzaka Museum
Kanpo Yoshikawa, an Artist and Collector
September 28, 2019 to November 17, 2019
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Tobacco & Salt Museum Miniature Exhibition:
Great beauty in small things
September 7, 2019 to December 1, 2019
Tobacco & Salt Museum
Commemorating the 170th Anniversary of Hokusai’s Death:
Hokusai Masterpieces from the Mogi-Honke Museum of Art
September 10, 2019 to November 4, 2019
The Sumida Hokusai Museum
Visual Magic: Exhibition of Masterpieces from Hokusai Museum, Obuse,
Commemorating the 170th Anniversary of Hokusai’s Death
November 19, 2019 to January 19, 2020
The Sumida Hokusai Museum
Commemorating the 170th Anniversary of Hokusai’s Death
Masterworks from the Sumida Hokusai Museum
September 14, 2019 to November 10, 2019
Hokusai Museum,Obuse
Splendid Japanese Beauty: From the Museum Collection
September 2, 2019 to January 31, 2020
Sanno Art Museum
The World of Ryushi Kawabata
– Nihonga of Energy and Innovation –
October 2, 2019 to November 24, 2019
Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts
The Flowers and Birds in Japanese and Chinese Painting
October 26, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum
Special Exhibition to Commemorate the Donation Flickering Light—
Tōkagu from the Tsujii Collection
October 26, 2019 to December 8, 2019
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
The 65th Anniversary of the Fuchu Municipal Organization
Welcome back “Beautiful Meiji”
September 14, 2019 to December 1, 2019
Fuchu Art Museum
Celebrating museum renewal anniversary
NINSEI Silver and Gold
November 1, 2019 to December 8, 2019
MOA Museum of Art
Traces of Exchange:
From Early Western-style Paintings to Export Lacquerware
November 1, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Nakanoshima Kosetsu Museum of Art
Close-up Universe
Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.16
November 30, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Masataka Nakano Photo Exhibition
– Tokyo
November 23, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Ukiyoe in Challenge: From Kuniyoshi to Hōnen
November 16, 2019 to December 22, 2019
Fukuoka City Museum
Rikyū and the Tea Ceremony: World of Tea and Beauty of Utensils
September 1, 2019 to December 1, 2019
Masaki Art Museum
Great Tokyo:
One Hundred Views by Koizumi Kishio
November 1, 2019 to November 24, 2019
Nihon no hanga
A Brush with Beauty
Japanese Paintings in Ink, Color, and Gold
October 26, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Animals: An Enduring Tradition
– Ukiyo-e and Nihonga –
October 10, 2019 to December 14, 2019
Sato Sakura Gallery, New York
Fashion Redefined: Miyake, Kawakubo, Yamamoto
April 28, 2019 to January 5, 2020
Indianapolis Museum of Art
WOW: City Lights and Woodland Shade
Digital art encounters with Japan
November 21, 2019 to March 22, 2020
Japan House London
Changing and Unchanging Things:
Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan
September 27, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Steel and Concrete: The Modernization of Tokyo Architecture
September 21, 2019 to November 17, 2019
The Honolulu Museum of Art
Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art
September 22, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Crafted Japan
Aspects of Mingei in the Jeffrey Montgomery Collection
October 13, 2019 to March 8, 2020
Museo Vincenzo Vela
Men Make Fashion: Inrō from the Collection of the Museum of Lacquer Art
November 7, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Museum of Lacquer Art
Colorful Japan
226 Posters from the Collection
September 7, 2019 to February 20, 2020
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Subtle Beauty.
Japanese Etchings by Tanaka Ryōhei
September 20, 2019 to January 19, 2020
Japan Museum Sieboldhuis
One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century
September 21, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Art Institute of Chicago
Made in Tokyo: Architecture and Living 1964/2020
November 11, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Japan Society Gallery
When Japan Discovered Italy: Stories of Encounters (1585-1890)
October 1, 2019 to February 22, 2020
MUDEC | Museo delle Culture
A Wonderland of Prints: Look, Learn, Study, and Experience
November 16, 2019 to December 22, 2019
Yokosuka Museum of Art
Kencha and National Treasures: Tea Offering to the Emperor Meiji
December 14, 2019 to January 30, 2020
Mitsui Memorial Museum
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection
Aspects of Japan’s 160-year Relationship with the West
September 21, 2019 to January 13, 2020
Yokohama Museum of Art
Kimura -a Japanese Painter in France
November 15, 2019 to March 8, 2020
The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
Five Ukiyo-e Favorites
Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi
November 15, 2019 to January 19, 2020
Edo-Tokyo Museum
The savor of Rinpa artists: Kōetsu, Sōtatsu, Kōrin, Kenzan and Hōitsu
December 14, 2019 to January 21, 2020
MOA Museum of Art
From the TOP collection: Chikara Matsumoto “Memory Tracer”
November 16, 2019 to January 5, 2020
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Commemoration of the Museum’s Renewal Opening
Kobe City Museum’s Masterpiece Exhibition:
Crossing Culture, Linking History and Lacing Beauty
November 2, 2019 to December 22, 2019
Kobe City Museum
Domoto Insho－Amazing Creative Power－
Special Exhibition :Fusuma Paintings from Chikurin-ji Temple,Kochi
November 30, 2019 to March 29, 2020
Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts
Museum Collection Exhibition: Coordination of Tea Utensils
December 14, 2019 to February 16, 2020
The Gotoh Museum
110th years of Grave Keeper: Agony of Asakura Fumio
December 21, 2019 to March 4, 2020
Asakura Museum of Sculpture
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light
December 15, 2018 to June 30, 2020
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Beyond Zen: Japanese Buddhism Revealed
September 18, 2019 to January 5, 2020
The Newark Museum of Art
Impressions of East
Art and collecting between Europe and Japan
October 1, 2019 to February 20, 2020
MUDEC | Museo delle Culture
Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting
October 2, 2019 to February 20, 2020
the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Journey through a Changing Japan
October 19, 2019 to February 26, 2020
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
“DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2020
Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn
January 11, 2020 to February 26, 2020
The National Art Center, Tokyo (Kokuritsu Shin Bijutsukan)
Beauty of Japan: Rosanjin Kitaoji
November 3, 2019 to January 19, 2020
Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum Collection Exhibition
Paintings Created as Sets
January 9, 2020 to February 11, 2020
Nezu Museum
Ikko Narahara Photographs: The Promised Journey to Spain
November 23, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Setagaya Art Museum
Museum Collection Ⅲ
Passing Down and Renewing the Techniques and Spirit of the Craft Tradition
December 7, 2019 to April 12, 2020
Setagaya Art Museum
Concave and Convex: A Sumikawa Kiichi Retrospective
February 15, 2020 to May 24, 2020
Yokohama Museum of Art
Tea Ceremony－Zen and the the Elegant Pursuits (Period II)
January 11, 2020 to March 29, 2020
Shokoku-ji Jotenkaku Museum
Kenjiro Okazaki Retrospective – Strata
November 23, 2019 to February 24, 2020
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Warrior women from the Land of the Rising Sun
October 18, 2019 to March 1, 2020
Museo d'Arte Orientale
Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography
October 11, 2019 to March 22, 2020
National Gallery of Canada
Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro… The Great Masters of Japan
The Georges Leskowicz Collection
November 8, 2019 to March 22, 2020
Hôtel de Caumont Art Centre
Hirayama Ikuo: Silk Road and Art of Gandhara
January 25, 2020 to March 15, 2020
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Masterpieces of ukiyo-e paintings from Ota Memorial Museum of Art
January 11, 2020 to February 9, 2020
Ōta Memorial Museum of Art
Surrealist Painting ―Influences and Iterations in Japan
December 15, 2019 to April 5, 2020
POLA Museum of Art
Hiraku Project vol.10
Midori Sato: Diaphanous petals
December 15, 2019 to April 5, 2020
POLA Museum of Art
Special Exhibition for the New Year
Nō and Auspicious Symbols — Kotohogi —
December 24, 2019 to January 26, 2020
Okura Museum of Art
Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020
January 25, 2020 to April 12, 2020
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
New Year’s Celebration at the Tokyo National Museum
January 2, 2020 to January 26, 2020
Tokyo National Museum
Passing on Cultural Heritage: Buddhist Murals and Sculptures of Horyuji
March 13, 2020 to May 10, 2020
Tokyo National Museum
Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection
February 14, 2020 to July 26, 2020
Harvard Art Museums
Minä Perhonen / Minagawa Akira TSUZUKU
November 16, 2019 to February 16, 2020
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Hayashi Kagemasa: Potter of Mino in Shōwa
November 29, 2019 to February 24, 2020
Toki City Historical Museum of Mino Ceramics
Komura Settai’s Style: From “Iki” of Edo to “Modern” of Tokyo
December 21, 2019 to February 16, 2020
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
The Multitude of Painters in the Kansai Region I
December 17, 2019 to March 15, 2020
Nakanoshima Kosetsu Museum of Art
KUNIYOSHI +
Design and Entertainment in Japanese Woodblock Prints
October 25, 2019 to February 16, 2020
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
UKIYOENOW
Tradition and Experiment
October 26, 2019 to February 16, 2020
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
Among Friends
Japanese Tea Ceramics
June 28, 2019 to March 1, 2020
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
National Treasure Collection
Red and White Plum Blossoms
January 24, 2020 to March 17, 2020
MOA Museum of Art
New Year’s Feature Exhibition
The Many Hats of Rats!
January 2, 2020 to February 2, 2020
Kyoto National Museum
Special Exhibition
Kannon Worship: The Thirty-three Pilgrimage Sites of Western Japan
July 23, 2020 to September 13, 2020
Kyoto National Museum
Feature Exhibition
Paintings from the Kyoto Imperial Palace: The Shishinden
January 2, 2020 to February 2, 2020
Kyoto National Museum
Feature Exhibition
Shinto Deities and Guardian Lions and Lion-Dogs
January 2, 2020 to March 22, 2020
Kyoto National Museum
The Appeal of Ko-Imari and Nabeshima
January 10, 2020 to March 29, 2020
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Moji
The Tradition of Edo Creativity－The Skill and Soul of Craftsmen Give Birth to Japanese Beauty－
February 8, 2020 to April 5, 2020
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Tenka-Taihei – Pax Tokugawana and the Shoguns’ role in the birth of a new culture
January 2, 2020 to February 16, 2020
Edo-Tokyo Museum
20 passions for Crafting Crafts
December 20, 2019 to March 8, 2020
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Craft Gallery
MAM Collection 011:
Yokomizo Shizuka + Matsukawa Tomona – The Personal Time We Are Living
November 19, 2019 to March 29, 2020
Mori Art Museum
Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro. Masterpieces of Japanese art
October 19, 2019 to February 9, 2020
Stables of the Visconteo Castle in Pavia
Egoyomi: Picture Calendars for the New Year
December 14, 2019 to February 23, 2020
Art Institute of Chicago
Gifts of Gold: The Art of Japanese Lacquer Boxes
January 17, 2020 to May 15, 2020
Fairfield University Art Museum
Archaic Avant-Garde:
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection
October 27, 2019 to March 1, 2020
Worcester Art Museum
Curator’s Choice
Japanese Print Acquisitions of the Past Decade
October 19, 2019 to April 20, 2020
Portland Art Museum
The Magic of Clay and Fire:
Japanese Contemporary Ceramics
April 13, 2020 to April 19, 2020
San Antonio Museum of Art
The Treasures of Mitsubishi Collection:
The Mitsubishi 150th Anniversary Exhibition
July 8, 2020 to September 22, 2020
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo
Special Exhibition : Sakura, Sakura, Sakura 2020
— Flower Viewing at the Museum!
July 18, 2020 to September 13, 2020
Yamatane Museum of Art
Beyond Mei-Hin: Masterpirces of Japanese Modern Art, 1870s-1970s
April 11, 2020 to June 7, 2020
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Frame of Japan:
the World of Expressions in Traditional Mountings of Sugimoto Hiroshi
May 28, 2020 to September 6, 2020
Hosomi Museum
Tsuyoshi Hisakado − Practice of Spiral
March 20, 2020 to September 22, 2020
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Pageant in Art
Masterpieces of Seikado Bunko Art Museum
June 27, 2020 to September 22, 2020
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Painted Folding Screens, Byōbu-e — Brilliance of the Japanese Esthetic
July 18, 2020 to September 6, 2020
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
The 50th Anniversary of the Adachi Museum of Art
Encounter with Aesthetics – Giving His Heart to Master Paintings- Adachi Zenko’s Eye for Beauty
March 1, 2020 to May 30, 2020
Adachi Museum of Art
Exhibition Celebrating the Opening of Rosanjin Hall
Former of Unique Aesthetics, Kitaoji Rosanjin ―Accessions and Other Master Works Exhibited Together―
April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Adachi Museum of Art
The 50th Anniversary of the Adachi Museum of Art
JAPAN
Japanese Aesthetics in Paintings
June 1, 2020 to August 30, 2020
Adachi Museum of Art
Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Black:
Delightful Colors in Art
March 20, 2020 to July 31, 2020
Sanno Art Museum
2020 Spring Exhibition from the museum collection:
Hamaji Seimatsu
May 8, 2020 to June 21, 2020
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Moyo-zukushi: Full of Patterns and Designs
April 25, 2020 to June 28, 2020
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Pursuing Japanese Beauty: Masters of Nihon Bijutsuin
May 19, 2020 to September 12, 2020
Tsurui Museum of Art
An Introduction to Okyo & Rosetsu
May 23, 2020 to July 13, 2020
Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture
Yoshitoshi: Master Draftsman Transformed
February 1, 2020 to August 9, 2020
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Copy & Paste
Repetition in Japanese Imagery
May 7, 2020 to August 30, 2020
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
June 27, 2020 to August 23, 2020
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
The First Step: the Origin of the Collection
June 21, 2020 to September 6, 2020
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Collecting Japan. Philipp Franz von Siebold’s Vision of the Far East
October 19, 2019 to September 13, 2020
Museum Fünf Kontinente
From MoMAK Collection
Life in Kyoto – Arts in Seasonal Delight
July 23, 2020 to September 22, 2020
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present
June 24, 2020 to August 24, 2020
The National Art Center, Tokyo
Twilight Daylight
Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.17
July 28, 2020 to September 22, 2020
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Flowers, Flowers and More Flowers: Exhibition of
Flowers in Art from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection
July 3, 2020 to August 23, 2020
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Special Exhibition Commemorating the Museum’s 15th Anniversary: Masterpieces from the Mitsui Family Collections
Part 2: Ancient Japanese Art
August 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020
Mitsui Memorial Museum
Urushi Extraordinaire:
Lacquer Masterpieces from the Tokugawa Art Museum Collection
July 18, 2020 to September 13, 2020
The Tokugawa Art Museum
Ghosts, Ghouls, and Goblins:
Strange and Fantastical Figures in Japanese Art
July 18, 2020 to September 13, 2020
The Tokugawa Art Museum
Pageant in Art
Masterpieces of Seikado Bunko Art Museum
June 27, 2020 to September 22, 2020
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Ukiyoe Masters of the Utagawa School
—Kunisada, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi
June 27, 2020 to September 6, 2020
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi
