Exhibitions in Tokyo

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

A survey spotlighting overlooked ukiyo-e artists working in the shadow of the medium's most famous names.

Suntory Museum of Art

Lavishly decorated sutras, Buddhist statues and paintings inspired by the Lotus Sutra, tracing how devotion to the text shaped Japanese art from antiquity to today.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

First Tokyo solo show in 35 years for sculptor Tada Minami (1924-2014), spanning sculpture, chandeliers and architectural "light sculptures" across her 70-year career.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Two-term exhibition tracing ukiyo-e depictions of nighttime scenes, centred on Katsushika Ōi's famous "Night Scene in the Yoshiwara."

The National Art Center, Tokyo

Over 50 Louvre masterpieces trace 15th-16th century Renaissance art, including the Japan debut of Leonardo da Vinci's "Portrait of a Woman" (La Belle Ferronnière).

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Roughly 200 modern Taiwanese artworks, archival material and contemporaneous Japanese pieces, exploring shared modernity across art, film, literature and music.

SOMPO Museum of Art

Some 90 works by the French Fauvist, tracing his career and celebrated waterside scenes and Pont-Neuf series, on loan from major French museums.

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

The museum's annual juried competition and sale of new handicrafts by contemporary makers, spanning ceramics, textiles, woodwork, lacquer, glass, metal, bamboo, straw and paper.

Tokyo National Museum

Special exhibition marking the gift of the Uchiyama Susumu collection, showing complete sets of Hiroshige's Tokaido, Kiso Road, and Edo landscape print series in rotation.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Group show of contemporary Japanese artists exploring the ecosystems that adapt to city life, from roadside weeds to organisms coexisting with concrete.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Over 60 dresses, printed textiles and production materials from the Finnish design house Marimekko, with a video on its Helsinki print factory and work by designer Akira Minagawa.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

MOMAT Collection Focus show on Japanese artists who lived in Paris from the pre-war era through the postwar period, including Fujita Tsuguharu and Okamoto Taro.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Special exhibition of 500 works and materials by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934), covering his "Yumeji style" images of women, paintings, prints and graphic design.

National Museum of Western Art

Marking Japan's Shōwa centennial, this display traces conservation and restoration work at the NMWA from its 1959 founding through 1989.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Free

Free 100th-anniversary thematic show pairing sculpture, photography, text and painting by five artists exploring dialogue with the world.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

Contemporary architects and designers reinterpret Kamo no Chōmei's 13th-century "Hōjōki" and its 9m² hermitage, rethinking what it means to dwell. Directed by architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Free

Free 100th-anniversary archives exhibition retracing the museum's century through documents, photographs and the people behind it.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Five contemporary artists using AI, CG and stop-motion reassemble existing memories, materials and technologies into new imagery, questioning how we perceive information today.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Six photographers and video artists from China and Japan in dialogue, exploring resonances born from the intersection of different cultures, times and personal experiences.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

First major retrospective in Japan in 50 years of Italian landscape painter Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882), who taught early Japanese Western-style painters in Tokyo.

Artizon Museum

The seventh Jam Session pairing sees contemporary artist Fujii Hikaru respond to 22 works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, inverting Plato's cave allegory to question the structure of truth.

Artizon Museum

Over 100 paintings from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection show how Japanese artists studying in Europe since the Meiji era, including Kuroda Seiki and Fujita Tsuguharu, engaged with Western art traditions.

Tokyo Station Gallery

Retrospective of about 130 works by the Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup, including oil paintings and woodblock prints depicting seasonal landscapes near Jolster Lake, Norway.

Yayoi Kusama Museum

Kusama's work seen through the theme of light, from 1950s drawings to recent mirror rooms and metallic sculptures where light becomes the work itself.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

A retrospective on three pioneering shojo-manga artists, tracing their careers from the late 1960s to today through original drawings and archival material.

National Museum of Western Art

A special exhibition placing J.M.W. Turner's work in dialogue with contemporary art, exploring the sublime in landscape and light.

National Museum of Nature and Science

A commemorative exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo, tracing his life's work and humanity's ongoing fight against infectious disease.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Around 110 works from the Musée d'Orsay spanning painting, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, including Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir.

Mori Art Museum

Japan's first major Mariko Mori retrospective since 2002, spanning three decades from her 1990s Cyborg series to recent installations shaped by Buddhist philosophy and science.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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