Exhibitions in Kyoto

Museum "EKi" KYOTO

Ceramics, calligraphy and paintings by Kyoto-born Kitaōji Rosanjin (1883–1959) from the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, including the Kawashima Collection returned from San Diego.

Kyoto National Museum

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

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 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.

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.

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.

The Museum of Kyoto

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

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.

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.

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.

Kyoto Railway Museum

Steam locomotives and station buildings of early 20th-century Kyoto, shown with scenes from the anime Eureka Evrika as part of the museum's collaboration with the series.

The Museum of Kyoto

Original manga art and figures by Go Nagai that survived the 2024 Noto earthquake fire at his Wajima memorial museum, plus new drawings made for the show.

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

Studio Ghibli-produced follow-up to Zen and Ghibli: calligraphy and paintings by Edo-period Zen monk Hakuin Ekaku, paired with new video content.

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

Kyoto leg of Japan's largest public juried exhibition: about 500 works in nihonga, Western painting, sculpture, crafts and calligraphy.

Kahitsukan – Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art

60 signed original prints from the collection by Magnum photographer Martine Franck: children, portraits, Tory Island in Ireland, and intimate shots of her husband Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK)

The next rotation of MoMAK's collection displays, running alongside the jewellery exhibition; themes include the museum's outdoor sculptures.

Fukuda Art Museum

The museum's first shunga show debuts the 14th-century Chigo Sōshi scroll, with Hokusai's Nami Chidori and love-themed works by Uemura Shōen. Ages 18+ only.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK)

About 350 pieces tracing post-war Japanese art jewellery, from the JJDA founders to contemporary makers, with works by Otto Künzli and others.

Nijo Castle (Nijo-jo)

Original murals from the Kuroshoin, where the shogunate feasted the imperial court in 1626: cherry blossoms and pheasants in full spring colour beneath ink landscapes of ancient China.

Kyoto International Manga MuseumFree

Four decades of manga reception in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Germany, plus work by European artists who grew up reading it. A 20th-anniversary show.

Kyoto Railway Museum

Kyoto Station 150th anniversary show on railway architecture: four generations of Kyoto Station and their architects, roundhouse drawings and historic station buildings.

Hosomi Museum

Storybook-themed porcelain designed and painted by Heinz Werner, master artist of the modern Meissen manufactory.

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.

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.

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

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