What's on in Osaka

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, OsakaFree

Solo show of new self-portrait based works by Tachibana Hazuki, including large pieces that blur life-size scale.

Osaka Museum of Natural History

Theme display of fossils normally kept in storage, from Paleozoic invertebrates to Cenozoic vertebrates, including the heteromorph ammonite Nipponites.

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.

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.

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)

Special exhibition on Ainu life along the Saru River in Hokkaido, from ancestral times to the present.

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.

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

Ming dynasty calligraphy from the Taipei collection of Ho Chuang-shih, shown in a special exhibition. No display changes during the run.

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.

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.

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.

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.