Tanomura Chokunyu and Nanga Painting in Modern Kyoto: The Ambience of Nature

In a show of ink scrolls, one sheet is pencil and watercolour: Asai Chu's 1907 sketch of an elderly Tanomura Chokunyu, made the year Chokunyu died. He led the Japan Nanga Association, whose founding aims he and 24 other Kyoto painters, Tomioka Tessai among them, published in December 1896. Membership later passed 3,000.

Nanga came out of Japan's admiration for Chinese painting: mountains, water, flowers and birds, painted from the artist's state of mind rather than from life. The museum presents it as modern Kyoto's other art history, beside the sketch-from-life Maruyama-Shijo school. You get 22 numbered works, most from the Kyoto Prefecture collection, plus many painting albums Chokunyu owned and papers from the association and Kyoto's prefectural painting school.

It's in the second-floor galleries, and the ¥600 ticket includes the Film Theatre. Open until 19:30, last entry 19:00; closed Mondays except 12 October and 23 November, and closed 13 October and 24 November. A curator's free gallery talk runs at 14:00 on 8 November.