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Two Nakanoshima museums, a short walk apart, carry December: the British Museum's Edo treasures at NAKKA, and Stratified Languages, opening at the National Museum of Art on the 1st. Wyeth leaves Abeno Harukas on the 6th. Most museums close for New Year from the 28th, so fit them in between year-end parties.

National Museum of Art, Osaka
Works from the museum's collection on images and words where languages and cultures meet, focused on Asian borderlands shaped by colonial rule and war.

National Museum of Art, Osaka
Collection show revisiting Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1960s and the social conditions behind them, ahead of the museum's 2027 anniversary.

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Osaka-born photographer and video artist Sako Teppei presents new works asking whether time itself can be photographed.

Abeno Harukas Art Museum
The career of Vienna-born London potter Lucie Rie, shown with Leach, Coper and Hamada and her ties to Eastern ceramics.

Abeno Harukas Art Museum
Japan's first Wyeth retrospective: about 100 works, 15 new to Japan, built around windows, doors and the theme of boundaries.

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Solo show of new self-portrait based works by Tachibana Hazuki, including large pieces that blur life-size scale.
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)
Thematic exhibition on the history of the Torres Strait and its ties to Japan, seen through the Ohshima George photograph collection.
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)
Special exhibition on Ainu life along the Saru River in Hokkaido, from ancestral times to the present.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Marks 50 years of NHK's Sunday Museum art programme, with works by Ishida Tetsuya, Takahashi Yuichi, Ito Jakuchu and Funakoshi Katsura.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Chinese cave-temple sculpture from the museum's collection, featuring Tianlongshan, Longmen and Xiangtangshan, including a seated Tang Buddha of 703.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Chinese and Japanese metalwork compared, including a 14th-century openwork silver-gilt sutra box and the Han dynasty winged figure that inspired the museum's mascot.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Jingdezhen porcelain from the late Ming to early Qing, made for Chinese, European and Japanese tastes, shown alongside the Ming calligraphy exhibition.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Ming dynasty calligraphy from the Taipei collection of Ho Chuang-shih, shown in a special exhibition. No display changes during the run.
Fujita Museum
Noh masks, robes and related paintings and lacquerware, shown with the Shukugawa Noh stage Kawarashoen to explain Noh.

Osaka Science Museum
A hands-on planned exhibition on the 1st floor that invites visitors to observe, test and think about the puzzles hidden in everyday objects and phenomena.
Fujita Museum
Fujita curators pick the works they most covet, among them Kano Sansetsu's Landscape in Summer and Winter, a Fierce Old Tiger and Ninsei incense containers.
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Edo-period paintings and ukiyo-e prints from the British Museum's Japanese collection, including works by Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige.

Osaka Museum of History
About 40 items from the Okuda family on the showman who helped build Meiji-era Sennichimae, including a guestbook, performer photos and account books.
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