Key visual for the Sumitomo Shunsui 100th anniversary exhibition

100th Anniversary of the Passing of SUMITOMO Shunsui: Fortunate Encounters of The Sumitomo Modern Art Collection

Laster2026(e)ko urriaren 31(a) – 2026(e)ko abenduaren 20(a)·1.200 ¥

Modern Japanese-style and Western-style paintings and crafts collected by Sumitomo Shunsui, traced chronologically through his friendships with the artists of his day.

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When the painter Kosugi Misei visited Sumitomo Shunsui at his villa in Suma, he came away saying a rich man has two personalities: his own, and his house's. The show hangs Shunsui's modern art collection on that split between buying for the Sumitomo family and buying for himself.

You walk it in the order he collected, year by year: Japanese-style and Western-style paintings and crafts by artists he knew, funded or painted beside at gatherings, plus works the family has since parted with. Research for the show found he was buying exhibition paintings from 1907 for an Osaka museum he hoped to found. Most business trips end with a box of sweets for the office; his eight months abroad in 1897 ended with a Monet.

Tickets are 1,200 yen (students 800 yen, under-18s free), not timed, and include the Bronze Gallery. Some works hang only in the first or second half of the run. Slide talks on 23 November and 13 December need no booking.

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Monet's Parc Monceau (1876)
Look for a Paris park painted two years after the first Impressionist exhibition, bought from the dealer Hayashi Tadamasa and later hung in the Sumitomo villa at Suma.
Itaya Hazan's fruit vase (1917)
An Important Cultural Property: a porcelain vase carved with rare fruits under the soft, veiled glaze Hazan called hoko saiji.
Ando Jubei's peacock vase (1903)
A silver cloisonne vase decorated with peacock tail feathers, from the years Shunsui was buying crafts at the great expositions.
Yamada Shuhei's white cockatoo (1920)
A white cockatoo among pomegranate flowers, shown in the second half of the run only.
Kamishima Hozan's September beauty (1909)
The chrysanthemum sheet for September from his Twelve Months of Beauties, shown in the first half of the run only.