Dynamic Calligraphy of the Ming Dynasty: Treasures from the Ho Chuang-shih Collection, Taipei

Somewhere among 82 works of brushwork is a black cat. In 1617 Song Jue wrote a eulogy in clerical script for Heier, a cat remembered for its devotion to its owner, and drew the cat too. The museum liked it enough to turn it into the show's sticker.

Everything comes from the Ho Chuang-shih foundation in Taipei, which holds over 2,500 Ming and Qing works, and 72 of these 82 are shown in Japan for the first time. You walk from mid-Ming masters to the end of the dynasty: Wang Yangming's cursive poem of 1519, Dong Qichang copying Wang Xizhi in 1607, and Fu Shan's cursive "written wildly after drinking", the 17th-century version of your messages after the third highball.

It's for anyone who studies calligraphy, and Edo Japan copied these hands too. Tickets are 2,000 yen with no booking, include the collection galleries that day, and nothing rotates. On 21 and 22 November, Mainichi calligraphers write live in the second-floor south gallery, free with a ticket.