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[Special Exhibition]
A World of Flowers 2026―Yokoyama Taikan’s Cherry Blossoms, Kawabata Ryūshi’s Peonies and Hayami Gyoshū’s Plum Blossoms―
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Exhibition
Introduction
New growth buds on trees and plants. Flowers in a myriad of colors bloom. All hail the coming of spring. To celebrate this season when bright sunlight pours down, we have organized an exhibition that fills our museum with famous works depicting flowers.
Since antiquity, Japanese hearts have been drawn to--and adored--the flowers that bloom in each of the four seasons. To painters, flowers have been a compelling motif. Even now they appear in masterpieces that display their artists’ individuality.
The subject of Okumura Togyū’s Cherry Blossoms at Daigo-ji Temple is the Taikō Weeping Cherry at Daigo-ji in Kyoto. This tree is said to be 170 years old. The soft gradations of color created by using multiple layers of pigments evoke the warmth of spring. Fukuda Heihachirō’s Peonies captures with bewitching beauty the peony’s form, while using the technique of applying color from the back of the silk canvas . Tanomura Chokunyū’s A Hundred Flowers is a picture scroll, in effect an encyclopedia in which we can enjoy a hundred varieties of seasonal blossoms.
In addition to nihonga, this exhibition also includes two Western-style paintings, Umehara Ryūzaburō’s Roses and Oranges and Nakagawa Kazumasa’s Roses. Visitors are invited to savor the added variety in how flowers are rendered in Western-style paintings as well as in nihonga.
*All works are from the Yamatane Museum of Art collection unless otherwise noted.
Highlights
Tanomura Chokunyū, A Hundred Flowers (detail)
Araki Jippo, Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Overview
- Highlights of the Exhibition
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Tanomura Chokunyū, A Hundred Flowers, 1869, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Yokoyama Taikan, Spring Morning, c. 1939, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Araki Jippo, Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, 1917, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Hishida Shunsō, White Peony, c. 1901, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Kobayashi Kokei, Bird and Evergreen Magnolia, 1935, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Umehara Ryūzaburō, Roses and Oranges, 1944, Oil on Paper, Yamatane Museum of Art
Okumura Togyū, Cherry Blossoms at Daigo-ji Temple, 1972, Color on Paper, Yamatane Museum of Art
Omoda Seiju, Narcissi, c. 1919, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Fukuda Heihachirō, Peonies, 1924, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Yamaguchi Hōshun, Sunny Moments in the Rainy Season, 1966, Color on Paper, Yamatane Museum of Art
Hayami Gyoshū, Red Plum Blossoms and White Plum Blossoms, 1929, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art
Nakagawa Kazumasa, Roses, 1967, Oil on Canvas, Yamatane Museum of Art
Hieda Kazuho, Early Spring, 1990, Color on Paper, Private Collection
Hieda Kazuho, Ripples, 1989, Color on Paper, Private Collection
Hieda Kazuho, Spring Fields, Color on Paper, Private Collection
Hieda Kazuho, Autumn Fields, 1994, Color on Paper, Private CollectionApproximately 60 works in total are to be displayed.
Works are the property of the Yamatane Museum of Art. - Exhibition period
- 9 March (Sat.) – 6 May (Mon.) 2024
- Organized by
- Yamatane Museum of Art and the Asahi Shimbun Company
- Sponsored by
- Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
- Hours
- 10 am - 5 pm (Last admission at 4:30 pm)
- Closed
- Closed on 9/16 and on Mondays, except for 8/11,9/15.
- Admission Fees
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Adults: 1,400 yen; University and high school students: 1,100 yen; middle school and younger children: free of charge;
Disability ID holders and one accompanying person: 1,200 yen each
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* Discount for those who are wearing kimono: Discount of 200 yen for adults
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