Green tour Kyoto | travel information in JAPAN » March 2012
Arts & Performances
Kyoto is a birth place of traditional arts, crafts and performances of Japan, and has been maintaining its tradition with the
coming of the new age. Here GTK'd like to introduce the monthly art highlights, museums, creators etc.
Highlights of March 2012 Art
“HOKUSAI” -the 250th anniversary of Hokusai’s Birth: Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Copyright : 「諸国瀧廻り 相州大山ろうべんの瀧」[後期] 天保3-4年頃 竪大判錦絵 HAA:13851 1957年ジェームス・A・ミッチェナー氏寄贈 撮影：ティム・シーゲルト ©Honolulu Academy of Arts This exhibition features Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) who was a popular artist of Ukiyoe in the Edo era. 6 kinds of picture scrolls including his famous works “Fugaku-sanjurokkei” (36 views of Mt. Fuji) will be displayed.
Mitsumasa ANNO Exhibition -Rakuchu-Rakugai-
Copyright : ＜洛中洛外＞平等院鳳凰堂 Mitsumasa Anno (86 yrs-old) is a famous painter whose picture books, landscape paintings and illustrations for books are very familiar to Japanese people. In this exhibition, his watercolor paintings with images of temples, festivals and landscapes in Kyoto are mainly being displayed. The works he painted in his travels of Japan are [...]
Eshi 100 – Contemporary Japanese Illustration in Kyoto
Copyright : 西又葵「富士の領域」ⓒ Aoi Nishimata/Omegavision Eshi was the name of an artist of Ukiyo-e, wood-block printings in the Edo era. This time contemporary illustrations with the theme “Japan” by 105 artists called “Eshi” by their fan will be exhibited. You can enjoy modern expressions of Japanese images done in a manga style and note the [...]
- Kyoto National Museum
- 9:30~18:00 (Sun~Wed & Sat) 9:30~20:00 (Fri)
- Closed on Monday
- 075-525-2473
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
- 9:30~17:00
- Closed on Monday
- 075-761-4111
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
- 9:00 ~ 17:00 (admission until 16:30)
- Closed on Monday
- 075-771-4107
- The Museum of Kyoto
- 10:00~19:30 (Special Exhibition 10:00~18:00)
- Closed on Monday & Dec.28~Jan.3
- 075-222-0888
- Kyoto International Manga Museum
- 10:00~18:00
- Closed on Wednesday
- 075-254-7414
- Hosomi Museum
- 10:00~18:00
- Closed on Monday
- 075-752-5555
- Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
- 10:00~17:00 only on April, November and February
- 075-802-7000
- Jotenkaku Museum
- 10:00~16:30 only on the special exhibition term
- 075-241-0423
Recent entries
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- The Kanze Family Exhibition
- April 3rd ~ May 26th, 10:00-17:00 everyday
- Jotenkaku Museum (in the Shokoku-ji Temple's Ground)
- The Inca Empire Revealed: Century After the Machu Picchu “Discovery”
- April 16th ~ June 23rd, 10:00-18:00 (~19:30 on Friday, entry by 30 minutes before close), closed on Mondays
- The Museum of Kyoto (京都文化博物館)
- “The Next Stage”: The New Exhibition at Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
- April 1st ~ 30th, 10:00-17:00 (last admission 16:30)（closed from 13:00 on April 12 )
- Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
- Masterworks from the Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein
- March 19th ~ June 9th, 9:00-17:00 (enter by 16:30), closed on Mondays (open on Apr.29&May 6)
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
- Ancient Glass: Feast of Color -on Special Loan from the British Museum
- March 9th ~ June 9th, 10:00-17:00 (enter by 16:00), closed on Mondays (open on Apr.29 & May.6)
- MIHO MUSEUM
- UNknown Alfons Mucha
- March 1st ~ 31st, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- EKI Museum Kyoto (JR Kyoto Isetan Department Store, 7F)
- Diorama Exhibition by Takaki Yamamoto
- February 28th ~ March 11th, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- Takashimaya Grand hall (7F of Takashimaya Department Store)
- Kaga Akae Exhibition -The Lure of Red and the Glitter of Gold
- January 6th ~ 21st, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- Takashimaya Grand hall (7F of Takashimaya Department Store)
- Tessaido collection -Antique accessories
- January 2nd ~ 20th, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- EKI Museum KYOTO
- LEO LIONNI Exhibition
- December 6th ~ 27th, 10:00-20:00 everyday
- EKI Museum Kyoto (JR Kyoto Isetan Department Store, 7F)
