Special Exhibition：
A World of Flowers 2024
―Okumura Togyū’s Cherry Blossoms, Fukuda Heihachirō’s Peonies and Umehara Ryūzaburō’s Roses

　

9 March (Sat.) – 6 May (Mon.) 2024
(Closed on Mondays, except for 29 April, 6 May.)

Hours: 10 am - 5 pm (Last admission at 4:30 pm)

Admission Fees: Adults: 1,400 yen; middle school and younger children: free of charge; Disability ID holders and one accompanying person: 1,200 yen each
*Discount for those who are wearing kimono: Discount of 200 yen for adults

Spring Student Discount: University and high school students: 1,100 yen → 500 yen

Our online timed-entry reservation system (tickets for specific days and times) is now in operation. [On sale from 3/1 to 5/6 2024]

Organized by: Yamatane Museum of Art and the Asahi Shimbun Company

Sponsored by: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

Highlights of the Exhibition

Tanomura Chokunyū, A Hundred Flowers, 1869, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Yokoyama Taikan, Spring Morning, c. 1939, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Araki Jippo, Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, 1917, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Hishida Shunsō, White Peony, c. 1901, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Kobayashi Kokei, Bird and Evergreen Magnolia, 1935, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Umehara Ryūzaburō, Roses and Oranges, 1944, Oil on Paper, Yamatane Museum of Art

Okumura Togyū, Cherry Blossoms at Daigo-ji Temple, 1972, Color on Paper, Yamatane Museum of Art

Omoda Seiju, Narcissi, c. 1919, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Fukuda Heihachirō, Peonies, 1924, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Yamaguchi Hōshun, Sunny Moments in the Rainy Season, 1966, Color on Paper, Yamatane Museum of Art

Hayami Gyoshū, Red Plum Blossoms and White Plum Blossoms, 1929, Color on Silk, Yamatane Museum of Art

Nakagawa Kazumasa, Roses, 1967, Oil on Canvas, Yamatane Museum of Art

Hieda Kazuho, Early Spring, 1990, Color on Paper, Private Collection

Hieda Kazuho, Ripples, 1989, Color on Paper, Private Collection

Hieda Kazuho, Spring Fields, Color on Paper, Private Collection

Hieda Kazuho, Autumn Fields, 1994, Color on Paper, Private Collection

Approximately 60 works in total are to be displayed.
Works are the property of the Yamatane Museum of Art.

Exhibition Overview

New growth buds on trees and plants. Flowers in a myriad of colors bloom. All hail the coming of spring. To celebrate this season when bright sunlight pours down, we have organized an exhibition that fills our museum with famous works depicting flowers.

Since antiquity, Japanese hearts have been drawn to—and adored—the flowers that bloom in each of the four seasons. To painters, flowers have been a compelling motif. Even now they appear in masterpieces that display their artists’ individuality.

The subject of Okumura Togyū’s Cherry Blossoms at Daigo-ji Temple is the Taikō Weeping Cherry at Daigo-ji in Kyoto.  This tree is said to be 170 years old. The soft gradations of color created by using multiple layers of pigments evoke the warmth of spring. Fukuda Heihachirō’s Peonies captures with bewitching beauty the peony’s form, while using the technique of applying color from the back of the silk canvas . Tanomura Chokunyū’s A Hundred Flowers is a picture scroll, in effect an encyclopedia in which we can enjoy a hundred varieties of seasonal blossoms.

In addition to nihonga, this exhibition also includes two Western-style paintings, Umehara Ryūzaburō’s Roses and Oranges and Nakagawa Kazumasa’s Roses. Visitors are invited to savor the added variety in how flowers are rendered in Western-style paintings as well as in nihonga.

 *All works are from the Yamatane Museum of Art collection unless otherwise noted.