Scenes of Autumn: From the Terada Collection 088

The oldest picture here is a small ink and watercolour on Japanese paper, 44 cm wide, that Nambata Tatsuoki called simply Autumn in the early 1950s. His Illusion of a Day in Autumn A followed in 1991.

The curator's essay leans on the scholar Haruo Shirane: Japan's seasonal imagery grew less from the weather than from poetry and a "secondary nature" of gardens, ikebana and bonsai, and autumn loomed large because it suits Buddhist ideas of impermanence. The works come from collector Terada Kotaro's gift of postwar Japanese art, from nihonga to woodcuts to abstraction. You pass two paintings nearly four metres wide, by Uchida Aguri and Ono Toshiaki. Fitting for Tokyo, where autumn arrives as chestnut flavours at the konbini weeks before a single ginkgo turns.

It hangs in Galleries 3 and 4 with no separate ticket: entry comes with Seeds and Roots (¥1,800, students ¥1,100, junior high age and under free). Last entry 18:30; closed Mondays except 23 November, and 24 November.