11 نوفمبر 2026
The British Museum's Edo paintings and prints land at Nakanoshima, and Abeno Harukas hangs Japan's first Andrew Wyeth retrospective sixteen floors up. Fujita and the City Museum of Fine Arts look east, with curators' favourites and Ming calligraphy from Taipei. Itsuo's tea, sake and smoking show closes on the 23rd, about when the Midosuji ginkgos turn yellow.
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, OsakaUntil 31 January
Edo-period paintings and ukiyo-e by Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige, lent from the British Museum's Japanese collection. The chance to see what London kept of Edo without flying to London.
Abeno Harukas Art MuseumUntil 6 December
About 100 works, 15 of them new to Japan, built around windows, doors and the line between inside and out. Japan's first Wyeth retrospective, for anyone who knows Christina's World and wants the rest.
Fujita MuseumUntil 31 January
Fujita's curators name the works they most covet: Kano Sansetsu's Landscape in Summer and Winter, a fierce old tiger, incense containers by Ninsei. A collection show with a personal angle, free for anyone 19 and under.
Osaka City Museum of Fine ArtsUntil 20 December
Ming dynasty calligraphy from Ho Chuang-shih's private collection in Taipei, with no changes of display, so every work stays up for the whole run. The ticket covers the collection rooms, where late Ming Jingdezhen porcelain is on show.
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)Until 15 December
Ainu life along Hokkaido's Saru River, the valley of Nibutani, traced from ancestral times to the present. The ticket includes Minpaku's permanent galleries, and high schoolers and younger go free.
Itsuo Art MuseumCloses 23 November
128 objects built on one Japanese verb, nomu, which covers drinking tea, sipping sake and smoking. Tea bowls and sake flasks share the rooms with pipes and tobacco trays.
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osakaمجاني
Solo show of new self-portrait based works by Tachibana Hazuki, including large pieces that blur life-size scale.
Osaka Museum of History
About 40 items from the Okuda family on the showman who helped build Meiji-era Sennichimae, including a guestbook, performer photos and account books.
Osaka Museum of History
About 150 finds and photo panels from recent Osaka excavations, including late Naniwa Palace roof tiles and Toyotomi-period gold-leaf tiles.
Itsuo Art Museum
128 works on three senses of "nomu": drinking tea, sipping sake and smoking, from tea bowls and sake flasks to pipes and tobacco trays.
Fujita Museum
Paintings and crafts drawn from stories, including a Genji picture album, Korin's cherry-blossom writing box and the Saigyo album.
Abeno Harukas Art Museum
Japan's first Wyeth retrospective: about 100 works, 15 new to Japan, built around windows, doors and the theme of boundaries.
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)
Thematic exhibition on the history of the Torres Strait and its ties to Japan, seen through the Ohshima George photograph collection.
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)
Special exhibition on Ainu life along the Saru River in Hokkaido, from ancestral times to the present.
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Marks 50 years of NHK's Sunday Museum art programme, with works by Ishida Tetsuya, Takahashi Yuichi, Ito Jakuchu and Funakoshi Katsura.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Chinese cave-temple sculpture from the museum's collection, featuring Tianlongshan, Longmen and Xiangtangshan, including a seated Tang Buddha of 703.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Chinese and Japanese metalwork compared, including a 14th-century openwork silver-gilt sutra box and the Han dynasty winged figure that inspired the museum's mascot.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Jingdezhen porcelain from the late Ming to early Qing, made for Chinese, European and Japanese tastes, shown alongside the Ming calligraphy exhibition.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Ming dynasty calligraphy from the Taipei collection of Ho Chuang-shih, shown in a special exhibition. No display changes during the run.
Fujita Museum
Noh masks, robes and related paintings and lacquerware, shown with the Shukugawa Noh stage Kawarashoen to explain Noh.
Osaka Science Museum
A hands-on planned exhibition on the 1st floor that invites visitors to observe, test and think about the puzzles hidden in everyday objects and phenomena.
Fujita Museum
Fujita curators pick the works they most covet, among them Kano Sansetsu's Landscape in Summer and Winter, a Fierce Old Tiger and Ninsei incense containers.
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Edo-period paintings and ukiyo-e prints from the British Museum's Japanese collection, including works by Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige.
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