Kiyokata loved literature throughout his life. He had painted the scenes and characters of the novels by Higuhi Ichiyo, Ozaki Koyo, or Izumi Kyoka so many times.
This exhibition sheds the light on attractive heroines loved and painted by Kiyokata.

18 January – 24 February, 2025

【Admission】
Adults ¥300 Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥150

【Closed】
Mondays (except for 24 Feb.)

Kiyokata had spent a good time with his family and pupils in the year-end and New Year holidays.
In this exhibition, we introduce manners and customs of the year-end and New Year season in the Meiji era with Kiyokata’s paintings and essays.

7 December 2024 – 13 January, 2025

【Admission】
Adults ¥300
Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥150

【Closed】Mondays (except for 13 Jan.) , 29 Dec. ～ 3 Jan.

Nakazawa Hiromitsu (1874-1964) was an oil painter, illustrator, and book designer. Kiyokata and Hiromitsu were contemporary and Kiyokata held him in high regard and owned his paintings personally.
In this exhibition, you could meet two painters who had different art of painting and same feeling.

26 October – 1 December

【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students are 220

【Closed】Mondays（exsept for 4 Nov.), 5.Nov. and 12 Dec.

Kadoi Kikusui and Nishida Seiha had become Kiyokata’s disciples in their boyhood. They were the oldest disciples in Kiyokata’s private school and the closest disciples to their master.
This special exhibition provides rare opportunity to show two disciples’ works with their master’s works.

25 May – 30 June, 2024

【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥220

【Closed】Mondays, 4 June

Kiyokata loved shibai, theatrical play like kabuki and painted lots of shibai-e throughout his life. Beautiful costume, expression of players, and specific pose of dance — we could find his “theater-goer’s” points of view in his works.
This special exhibition introduces his shibai-e depicts the scenes of kabuki play or dance like Dojo-ji or Nozakimura and illustrations for play magazines.

19 April, 2024 – 22 May, 2024

【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥220

【Closed】Mondays (except for 29 Apr. and 6 May.)

During the late of the Meiji period, as the publication for children issued one after another, Kiyokata had painted illustrations, frontispieces, and supplements of them. His works for children aren’t very well known.
This exhibition focuses on Kiyokata’s works painted children and illustrations of publication for children.

2 March – 16 April

【Admission】
Adults ¥300
Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥150

【Closed】Mondays