Exhibitions in Kyoto

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

First major Japan solo show of Paris artist Raphaël Zarka: sculpture, photography and video on geometry and skateboarding, plus new work made in Kyoto.

Kyoto National Museum

The museum's annual display of hina dolls for Hina Matsuri, with lavish model palaces popular in Kansai and other dolls made in Kyoto.

The Museum of Kyoto

Figure-skating manga and anime Medalist by Tsurumaikada: new illustrations, famous scenes from the manga, recreated settings and highlights from the TV anime.

The Museum of Kyoto

60 years after his death, early paintings and ceramics by Arai Kinya (1884-1966), who turned from Western-style painting to pottery in Kyoto.

The Museum of Kyoto

Recently designated and newly restored cultural properties of Kyoto Prefecture and City, with the stories of their owners and restorers.

Museum "EKi" KYOTO

The annual new-artist prize show for young Japanese-style (nihonga) painters, run by the Kyoto Shimbun and JR West, with new works by the nominated artists.

The Museum of Kyoto

Annual showcase of emerging artists with ties to Kyoto, chosen for outstanding creativity and technique.

Kyoto National Museum

New Year feature for the 2027 zodiac: how sheep, rarely seen in Japan, were nonetheless pictured in Japanese art. Gallery 2F-2.

The Museum of Kyoto

Original paintings by comedian-turned-painter Jimmy Onishi, exploring the places that shape his work, with new pieces painted in Kyoto as his "hometown".

The Museum of Kyoto

Marking 250 years since Ike no Taiga's death: the Kyoto literati painter who stayed among ordinary townspeople, shown with works by the artists he influenced.

The Museum of Kyoto

Highlights of the Paleological Association of Japan's collection, which once ran the Heian Museum on this site and helped found the museum, marking a new catalogue.

Ryukoku Museum

The museum's series exhibition on Buddhism's path from India to Japan, with a feature of Indian miniature paintings of gods and buddhas from painter Hatanaka Kōkyō's collection, shown in Kyoto for the first time.

Kyoto International Manga MuseumFree

Director Aramata Hiroshi's 20th-anniversary show imagining a future Kyoto shared with aliens and gods, premiering Baron Yoshimoto's 100 alien skull portraits.

Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture

Early-modern and modern paintings of Kyoto's sights, festivals, geiko and vegetables, from Hara Zaichū's Aoi Festival scroll to sweet-shop wrappers by Tomioka Tessai.

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

Kyoto lacquerware from the Meiji era to the postwar avant-garde, from Rinpa revival pieces by Kamisaka Sekka to forms that abandoned function.

Nijo Castle (Nijo-jo)

Painted cedar doors of pines and cranes by a Tsurusawa School artist (1800), from the Goshoin's western corridor, one of the palace's 14 door sets shown one at a time.

Kyoto National Museum

Special viewing in the archaeology gallery (3F-2) on the people buried in the Harayama Tumulus in the Wazuka Valley.

Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design

Shortlisted works from the museum's open craft competition, themed "Inherited Future Crafts", with visitor voting for the Audience Award.

Kyoto National Museum

Famed tea utensils shown with the boxes and silk pouches handed down with them, including the National Treasure Ido tea bowl "Kizaemon".

Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts

Third show of the museum's 60th-anniversary year, announced as a display of Domoto Insho's masterpieces. Title and dates are provisional.

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of ArtFree

Free show in The Triangle: free-standing nihonga by Fujino Yumiko, drawing on research into abandoned houses to layer time and memory in space.

Fukuda Art Museum

Works by Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara and Izumi Kato hang beside Edo masters Jakuchū, Ike no Taiga and Ōkyo, from the museum's new contemporary collection.