Kiyokata found out the beauty of winter in scenes of daily life, natural scenery, or events in Year-end and New Year holidays.
This exhibition shows Kiyokata’s works of winter scenery and decorative Oshie Hagoita (battledore) based on Kiyokata’s work.

2 December,2022 – 9 January,2023

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

【Closed】

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.

22 October – 27 November, 2022

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

【Closed】
Mondays,15 Nov.

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.

15 September – 19 October, 2022

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

【Closed】
Mondays(except for 19 Sept. and 10 Oct.),11 Oct.

Various patterns and colors of Kimono in Kiyokata’s works expresses his aesthetics sense. Especially he loved yukata, casual summer kimono, its perfect color combination of indigo and white.
This exhibition shows Kimono from summer to autumn in his works and cloth for yukata designed by him.

2 July,2022 – 7 August, 2022
11 August,2021 – 11 September,2022

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

【Closed】
Mondays(except for18 Jul.), 19 Jul.

Kaburaki Kiyokata had developed his own painting style on the base of guidance of his master Mizuno Toshikata and by study of ukiyo-e. And furthermore, he had been stimulated and encouraged by contemporary painters.
This exhibition introduces the beauty of nihonga with works of Kiyokata and his contemporary painters.

21 May – 26 June, 2022

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

【Closed】
Mondays, 14 Jun.

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.

14 April – 18 May, 2022

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

【Closed】
Mondays, 2 May

2021 marks 60 years since publication of Koshikatanoki which is the most important collected essays by Kiyokata Kaburaki who is also a prominent writer. Koshikatanoki is a compilation of essays and memoir of his boyhood and young adulthood. His description of culture, custom, art world as well as publishing world back then in these essays have been regarded valuable social and cultural references.
His essays carry the feeling of nostalgia and sorrow for Tokyo in Meiji period and it is reflected in his art works such as Choseki Ankyo that depicts daily lives of the common people around 1887.
This exhibition will introduce people and views of Tokyo in Meiji period in which the remains of Edo period were still found here and there along with Kiyokata’s essays.

22 May-27 June, 2021

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

【Closed】
Mondays, 8 June

Kiyokata and his fellows launched small art study group Ugō-kai in 1901. They were working hard together to create new art suitable for the new era.
This special exhibition shows Kiyokata’s early works including Ichiyō Joshi no Haka (Grave of Higuchi Ichiyō) exhibited at the 5th Ugō-kai exhibition, and some works by other painters of Ugō-kai to trace young painters of Ukiyo-e descent by their works and materials.

15 April-19 May, 2021

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

【Closed】
Mondays(except for 3 May)