Saturday, April 15 - Sunday, May 14, 2023Gallery 1/2

Special Exhibition

Irises Screens: The Age of Kōrin, 1658-1716 [End]

Ogata Kōrin’s Irises screens, the epitome of Genroku culture, are the heart of this exhibition, which presents six decades of art history through paintings from the early to mid Edo periods.

Saturday, May 27 - Sunday, July 2, 2023Gallery 1/2

Museum Collection Exhibition

Bodhisattva of Salvation: The Art of Jizō

Jizō-bosatsu, the Bodhisattva Kşitigarbha, is the most familiar, and most beloved, Buddhist deity in Japan. In this exhibition, we share that love through Buddhist paintings and sculptures from our collection and other works related to Jizō.

Saturday, July 15 - Sunday, August 20, 2023Gallery 1/2

Museum Collection Exhibition

Japanese Narrative Paintings

Picture scrolls and albums that combine texts and pictures, hanging scrolls and folding screens that depict one or multiple scenes: This exhibition introduces the delights of visual storytelling through a variety of works.

Saturday, September 2 - Sunday, October 15, 2023Gallery 1/2

Museum Collection Exhibition

Armor, Swords, and Sword Fittings:A Mitsumura Collection Digest

Mitsumura Toshimo, an entrepreneur and connoisseur, built a superb collection, now owned by the Nezu Museum, with sword fittings at its core.We introduce that collection, with armor also included in the display.

Friday, November 3 - Sunday, December 3, 2023Gallery 1/2/5

Special Exhibition

Masterpieces of Northern Song Paintings and Calligraphy

Li Gonglin (c. 1049-1106) was a distinguished Northern Song painter whose long-lost, almost mythical authentic painting, Five Horses (Tokyo National Museum, Japan), has now resurfaced after ninety years. That event has inspired this exhibition of a group of superb works by his contemporaries.

Saturday, December 16, 2023 - Sunday, January 28, 2024Gallery 1/2

Museum Collection Exhibition

Embroidery and Weaving:The Gorgeous World of Japanese Textiles

Textiles, in all their variety, have long adorned human lives. Here we introduce textiles, from fragments from the Nara period (710-794) to Noh costumes and kosode kimono from the Edo period (1603-1868), focusing on embroidery and weaving from our collection.

Saturday, February 10 - Tuseday, March 26, 2024Gallery 1/2

Museum Collection Exhibition Gallery 1

Korean Ceramics

Gallery 2

The Mystery of the Okugōrai Tea Bowls

Examine the history of Korean ceramics, which have had a profound influence on ceramics in Japan, through our collection, and appreciate anew the fascination of tea bowls from Korea. Then continue your exploration in Gallery 2.