Exhibitions in Kyoto

Hosomi Museum

Nishijin weaver Yamaguchi Itaro's woven picture scrolls of The Tale of Genji, a decades-long feat of silk brocade.

Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture

An introduction to the Taishō-era painter and designer: Yumeji-style beauties, six of his rare oil paintings, book covers and chiyogami, plus his Twelve Views of Nagasaki and Ten Themes of Woman watercolour series.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.