Exhibitions

There are two principle types of fan in Japan.

Ink drawings are made on silk or on paper.

The sculptress Yuko Hishiyama studied art at the Tokyo National University of Art and Music, and completed her first degree in 1987.

This exhibition presents a selection of the items added to the Museum's collection over the last five years, including prints, drawings, ceramics, calligraphy and sword accessories.

One of the significant characteristics of modern industrial design is the absence of national boundaries.

There is a legend that before Buddha entered nirvana, he summoned every living creature to him. Twelve creatures presented themselves, in the following order: mouse, ox, tiger, hare, dragon, snake, horse, sheep or ram, monkey, cock, dog, and a wild boar.

In the year 1603, after a long and bloody civil war, the Tokugawa Shognate came to power in Japan, a military rule that lasted more than 250 years.

The photographs in the Henderson Collection cover a period of change in Japan - the end of the isolation of the Tokugawa era
(1603-1868) and the exciting beginnings of a modern industrial society based on western technology in the Meiji era (1868-1912).

Genmei Takahashi was born in Kyoto in 1942.

An owl, a crow, a monk wandering in endless wastes of snow, all represented with gentle humour in these monochromatic black woodblock prints, each with two small red marks, on rough paper - these are indications that the work can only be that of the artist Akiyama Iwao.