"Tabletop Art" is an art form proposed by Kaburaki Kiyokata in the Taisho period. It contains scroll paintings, picture books, or printed frontispieces and illustrations: you could enjoying to see a lot of details on your hands or on the tabletop. This exhibition features tebletop art and also shows Kiyokata’s works expressed the autumn.

　This exhibition shows impressive summer scenery in Kiyokata’s works: beautiful women in yukata, calm days in his cottage. The making process of Japanese style paintings is also introduced.

　Kiyokata wrote about his life of the Taisho to Showa period in his autobiographical essay Zoku Koshikata-no-ki published in 1967. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the essay’s publication, the exhibition introduces his masterpieces of the Taisho to Showa period.

　Kiyokata had visited Kanagawa many times and fascinated with amazing view of this area.
The special exhibition is centered on his works representing natural scenery and beautiful women.

　This exhibition shows Kiyokata’s works which depicting the beauty of women as if it had melted into nature, and frontispieces of women’s appearances with sense of the season which drawn by his smooth brushwork.

　Kiyokata loved theater culture whole his life and made many drawings based on the stories of theatrical plays.
This exhibition shows Shibai-e (drama-themed painting) and frontispieces inspired by Japanese literature.

　The exhibition celebrates the New Year with Kiyokata’s works and hagoita with raised cloth pictures made by Nagai Shuzan.

　The exhibition highlights Kiyokata’s masterpieces in which he depicted beautiful women with sense of seasons.

　We commemorate the 120th anniversary of the death of a Japanese novelist, Higuchi Ichiyo.
Kiyokata loved Ichiyo’s works and painted various characters which appeared in those novels.
In this exhibition, you see mainly the Kiyokata’s paintings and illustrations inspired by Ichiyo’s and
the other novelists’ literature.

　This exhibition shows mainly beautiful summer scenery in Kiyokata’s paintings and frontispieces.
His sketches, preparatory drawings and proof sheets are also exhibited and its making process is introduced.