Exhibitions in Tokyo

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT · Free

Gallery 3 show exploring body and clothing through a JAXA satellite image of Antarctica, which inspired A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE's jacquard-woven textiles for extreme environments including space.

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.

Nezu Museum

Special exhibition of lavish Bugaku court-dance costumes from temples and shrines including Amano-sha and Rinnoji, some shown for the first time in decades.

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.

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.

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.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Commemorative exhibition marking the 50th edition of Japan's prestigious Kimura Ihei Photography Award; full details to be announced by the museum closer to opening.

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.

Artizon Museum

Over 140 works trace poet and art critic Takiguchi Shuzo's move from writing to visual art, pairing his experimental drawings with pieces by Klee, Duchamp and Miro.

Artizon Museum

Japan's first major retrospective of Italian design master Ettore Sottsass, with over 100 works from the 1950s to his final years, in the museum's first-ever design exhibition.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

100th-anniversary show tracing the museum's century through Ueno Park, painter Egami Shigeo's Kyushu coal towns, and an immigrant family's story in Buenos Aires.

Nezu Museum

Museum-collection exhibition drawing on the Nezu's 2,300 ceramics, with Chinese, Japanese and Korean wares shown side by side across three galleries.

National Museum of Western Art

About 50 prints trace mythological and allegorical imagery and courtly celebration culture in Italy from the Renaissance to the Baroque.

National Museum of Nature and Science

A special exhibition on animal survival strategies and adaptive evolution, made with the mimuseum's own specimens and footage from NHK's nature series Darwin ga Kita!

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum · Free

About 140 works by Daido Moriyama paired with digital reinterpretations by Nara Women's University engineering students, exploring AI and technology's extension of his photographic legacy.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

100th-anniversary loan show of Edo-period ukiyo-e paintings and prints by Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai and Hiroshige from the British Museum's Japanese collection.

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

Marking the museum's 90th anniversary, around 50 Ryukyu bingata and woven textiles from the collection, many linked to the Sho royal family of Okinawa.

Tokyo Station Gallery

Traces the classic Chinese novel Suikoden from Song-dynasty origins through its Edo-period popularity in Japan, with Ming and Qing works, Kuniyoshi's ukiyo-e, manga, and drama costumes.

Tokyo National Museum

A tour of the Asian Gallery (Toyokan) exploring artworks through the lens of color, pigment science, and dyeing techniques across Asia.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Renewal-commemorative special exhibition on brothers Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Hidenaga's role unifying Japan, with artifacts tied to Nobunaga, Ieyasu and Sen no Rikyu.

Suntory Museum of Art

First major Tokyo showing in ~30 years of the Itsuo Art Museum's collection, from classical calligraphy fragments and tea utensils to paintings by Yosa Buson and Matsumura Go Shun.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Themed display of edo-kiriko and satsuma-kiriko cut glass vessels made for samurai and wealthy townspeople, blending Japanese and Western decorative styles.

Sumida Hokusai Museum

10th-anniversary special exhibition featuring a seven-metre Sumida River scroll back in Japan after a century, plus rare and newly acquired Hokusai works.

teamLab Borderless

A seasonal light installation evoking shifting terrain and landscape, on display at teamLab Borderless from September through November.

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.

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.

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.

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 Western Art

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

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 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.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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