Exhibitions in Tokyo

Tokyo National Museum

Temple treasures linked to the monk Enchin, marking 1,100 years since he received the posthumous title Chisho Daishi, from Miidera (Onjoji), the Tendai temple in Shiga.

SOMPO Museum of Art

French fashion as shown in oil paintings and posters from the Second Empire and Belle Époque to the Années folles. The museum gives the title as provisional.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Retrospective marking Raoul Dufy's 150th birth anniversary, spanning painting, textile design and ceramics, with a scale replica of his mural La Fée Électricité.

Tokyo Station Gallery

Wandering painter Hata Teruo (1887-1945), known for raw scenes of workers and prostitutes and for serene Buddhist paintings, with his Yoshiwara Scroll shown in Tokyo for the first time.

Mori Art Museum

Contemporary artworks from the 1950s to today exploring play as a catalyst for imagination and social change, positioning children as active collaborators rather than passive viewers.

Tokyo National Museum

A 40th-anniversary showcase in the Hyokeikan tracing the FINAL FANTASY series through art and music, staged alongside the museum's historical Japanese collection.

Tokyo Station Gallery

First retrospective in 40 years of dyeing and weaving artist Yamaga Seika (1885-1981), inventor of "hand-woven brocade," spanning traditional motifs to unconventional subjects like rockets.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Retrospective of Nihonga painter Hayami Gyoshu, organized with the Mainichi Newspapers and Nikkei; title still provisional per the museum's own listing.

Suntory Museum of Art

First of the museum's Roppongi 20th-anniversary shows: kiriko, the hand-cut glass born in late Edo Japan from admiration of European cut glass, shown through technique and production centres.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The first large-scale retrospective in Asia of Hans Haacke, covering works and projects on environmental issues and critiques of political and corporate power.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

International exhibition co-organized with the Sunpride Foundation, drawing on works from the foundation's collection, loans from artists and newly commissioned pieces.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

An exhibition treating the gallery as "one large clock," scattering time-related devices and design objects to examine how time structures daily life. Directed by graphic designer Tomohiro Okazaki.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

The Montmartre art scene of the late 19th and early 20th century, through works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon and lesser-known painters of their circle. Title is tentative.

Artizon Museum

A showing of the museum's recent acquisitions, from first-ever public displays of ukiyo-e prints and Noh costumes to Western and Japanese modern art, contemporary and Aboriginal art, and design.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The 21st MOT Annual, bringing together emerging artists from contemporary art, performing arts and experimental music, with an emphasis on performances engaging personal and social memory.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Recreation of illustrator Yuriko Yamawaki's studio, exploring her picture-book collaborations with Rieko Nakagawa and her influence on Hayao Miyazaki.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Solo show of Ken Kitano, centred on his Collecting Light project and long-exposure series, with new work recording the sun's path from cameras left in place for months.

National Museum of Western Art

Prints and other works by Henri Matisse, drawn mainly from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation collection, shown in the Special Exhibition Wing.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

The history of the diva from the 19th century to today, introducing about 100 singers and performers from opera, stage, film and popular music. Organized with the V&A and Sony Music Entertainment.