June 2027
June at a glance: 6 exhibitions opening, 4 closing, and 4 more on view across the city.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Exhibition of contemporary artist Yamaguchi Akira, organized with the Mainichi Newspapers.
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo
Works from the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, shown in Tokyo for the first time, tracing the 24 solar terms through nature, festivals and everyday life.

Artizon Museum
The career of Western-style painter Fujishima Takeji (1867-1943), from Meiji Romanticism to his European years, with profile portraits of women, sunrise motifs and newly donated sketches.

Artizon Museum
The Japan Pavilion work from the 61st Venice Biennale, rebuilt in Tokyo: visitors carry a doll weighing about as much as a four-month-old baby through the galleries.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Do Ho Suh's largest exhibition in Japan, with translucent fabric installations, sculptures, works on paper and video. Organized with The Asahi Shimbun.
Suntory Museum of Art
Second Roppongi 20th-anniversary show, on Shiba Kōkan (1747/48-1818), the Edo artist who made Japan's first etched copperplate prints and took up Western painting methods. Title provisional.
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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.