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Past Exhibitions
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Thematic Exhibition
Kiyokata`s Fond Look at Children
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- 2 March – 16 April
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.【Admission】
Adults ¥300
Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥150【Closed】Mondays
special Exhibition
Kiyokata and His Disciples: The Art They Pursued
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- 14 September,2023 – 18 October,2023
Around the end of Taishō period, Kiyokata had tried to paint actively shakai-ga, paintings capture various aspects of society, based on sketches of street scenes and everyday scenes of ordinary people. He also recommended his pupils to paint this shakai-ga.
This special exhibition focuses on the shakai-ga showing related Kiyokata and his pupils’ works.【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students are ¥220【Closed】Mondays(excepd for 18 Sept. and 9 Oct.)、10 Oct.
special Exhibition
Kiyokata and Literature:Respect for Ozaki Kōyō and Friendship with Izumi Kyōka
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- 14 September,2023 – 18 October,2023
Kiyokata and literature are deeply related. When he was a young painter, the literary group Ken-yūsha led by Ozaki Kōyō had extended their influence in the literary world. Acquainted with Kōyō and Izumi Kyōka, a promising young novelist of Ken-yūsha, Kiyokata paved his way to a famous illustrator. During his long career, he had produced many works inspired by literature.
This special exhibition shows a relationship of Kiyokata and Ken-yūsha with his works depicted scenes of novel or drama.【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students are 220【Closed】Mondays(excepd for 18 Sept. and 9 Oct.)、10 Oct.
Special Exhibition
Kiyokata in the Taisho Period: Searching for the Expression of His Own
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- 22 October – 27 November, 2022
Around 110 years ago, beginning of the Taisho period, Kaburaki Kiyokata was turning into Japanese style painter from an illustrator. Receiving the highest award of Bunten, the government-run art exhibition in 1915 and producing other great works, he come to fame as a Japanese style painter. However, he had continued to search and develop his own potential of new creation.
This exhibition shows Kiyokata’s works in the Taisho period to trace his path of seeking new creation.【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥220【Closed】
Mondays,15 Nov.Special Exhibition
The 170th Anniversary of Watanabe Seitei’s Birth Kiyokata and Seitei :Followers of Edo Painters
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- 15 September – 19 October, 2022
For full of witness and sophistication of his works, Watanabe Seitei (1852-1918) is attracting more attention in recent years. Kaburaki Kiyokata had also been attracted and influenced by Seitei’s works.
In cooperation with Prof. Yamashita Yuji, art researcher and expert of Watanabe Seitei, this exhibition introduces Seitei and Kiyokata’s works to find some similarity as followers of Edo painters.【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥220【Closed】
Mondays(except for 19 Sept. and 10 Oct.),11 Oct.Special Exhibition
Beautiful women in Narrative of Kiyokata`s Works
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- 14 April – 18 May, 2022
Kaburaki Kiyokata grew up in a literary and narrative environment: his father, Jono Saigiku was a journalist and a fiction writer, his mother was a play-goer, and his grandmother had been reading out picture book to him. Well versed in literature and play, he had depicted many attractive characters and scenes from kabuki play or novel throughout his career.
This exhibition shows sensible literary and narrative world by characters in Kiyiokata’s works.【Admission】
Adults ¥450
Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥220【Closed】
Mondays, 2 MaySpecial Exhibition
Flowery Women on the Stage in Kiyokata’s Works
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- 2 December,2021 – 19 December, 2021
22 December,2021 – 10 January,2022
In the Meiji period, common people in downtown Tokyo were familiar with theatrical entertainment as their pastime. Kiyokata also loved the theatre as a child.
When he was an illustrator, his illustrations and sketches on play magazines was well-received for his sharp observation and pertinent expression.
This exhibition introduces his works of beautiful flowery women on the stage with works expressed the New Year season.【Admission】
Adults ¥200
Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥100【Closed】
Mondays(except for10 Jan.), 29 Dec.-3 Jan.Special Exhibition
Refined Sentiment in Autumn and Winter with Kiyokata’s Works and Words
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- 23 October – 28 November, 2021
Japanese art, in its history, has been producing and developing by refined sensibilities to nature. Inspired by beauties of nature changing seasonally, Kaburaki Kiyokata created not only paintings, but also essay and haiku poem.
This special exhibition introduces Kiyokata’s paintings expressing sense of seasons from autumn to winter and haiku poem with materials shown to the public for the first time.【Admission】
Adults ¥300
Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥150【Closed】
Mondays, 9 Nov.Thematic Exhibition
Kiyokata’s Encounter with Kyōka: Invitation to Subtle and Profound Beauty
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- 28 August – 19 October, 2021
Kiyokata was an admirer of the novelist, Izumi Kyōka and had a close relationship with him. Undoubtedly, a certain part of Kiyokata’s art is influenced by Kyōka’s literary world. There are many illustrations, frontispieces, and cover designs for Kyōka’s books. What is more, there are some masterpieces of paintings such as “Chūmon-chō” based on his novel.
Commemorating the 120th anniversary of the encounter of two artists, the exhibition shows Kiyokata’s works and illustrations related with Kyōka and his literary world.【Admission】
Adults ¥200
Elementary and Junior High School Students ¥100【Closed】
Mondays (except for 20 Sep.), 21 Sep.Thematic Exhibition
Beauties in the Summer in Kiyokata’s Works
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- 2 July – 22 August,2021
Although he was a well-known painter of beautiful women, Kiyokata got inspiration for his painting from the beauties of nature rather than women’s beauties. Above all, he love to paint summer features: indigo-dyeing yukata, windchimes, morning-glory and so on.
The exhibition shows works and materials related with summer features of the good old days.【Admission】
Adults ¥200
Elementary and Junior High School Students are free of charge【Closed】
Mondays (except for 9 Aug.), 10 Aug.
- 2 December,2021 – 19 December, 2021