Exhibitions in Tokyo

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.

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.

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.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Exhibition tracing how ukiyo-e artists depicted Edo's licensed pleasure quarters over the centuries.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Traditional Lithuanian handicrafts displayed across the museum's main building and annex.

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.

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.

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.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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