Special Exhibition:
A Nihonga Pilgrimage 2025
―From Hayami Gyoshū and Higashiyama Kaii to Yamaguchi Akira―

　

4 October (Sat.) 2025 – 30 November (Sun.) 2025
(Closed on 10/14, 11/4,11/25 and on Mondays, except for 10/13, 11/3 and 11/24.)

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

Admission Fees: Adults: 1,400 yen; University and high school students: 1,100 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
▶Exhibition Online Ticket Sales　(～11/28 Sun.16:00)

Organized by: Yamatane Museum of Art and Nikkei Inc.

Sponsored by: SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.

Highlights of the Exhibition

Okuda Gensō, Oirase Ravine: Autumn. Color on Paper, 1983; Yamatane Museum of Art

Takeuchi Seihō, Itako in Early Summer. Color on Silk, 1930; Yamatane Museum of Art

Hayami Gyoshū, Camellia Petals Scattering [Important Cultural Property]. Color on Gold Ground on Paper, 1929; Yamatane Museum of Art

Higashiyama Kaii, Spring Calm. Color on Paper, 1968; Yamatane Museum of Art

Higashiyama Kaii, Pervasive Verdure. Color on Paper, 1976; Yamatane Museum of Art

Higashiyama Kaii, Autumn Colors. Color on Paper, 1986; Yamatane Museum of Art

Higashiyama Kaii, End of the Year. Color on Paper, 1968; Yamatane Museum of Art

Okumura Togyū, Maelstroms at Naruto. Color on Paper, 1959; Yamatane Museum of Art

Hirayama Ikuo, Tower Bridge in Mist in London. Color on Paper, 1963; Yamatane Museum of Art

Senju Hiroshi, The Pyramid. Color on Paper, 1988; Yamatane Museum of Art

Yamaguchi Akira, Tokei (Tokyo): The Tokyo Olympic Games in 1940 and 1964. Color on Canvas, 2018-2025; Yamatane Museum of Art

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

Exhibition Overview

Pilgrims visit the settings of movies, novels, manga, or even animated films. In 2023, our museum held the Nihonga Pilgrimage exhibition, in which the places that have been subjects of paintings or that have deep ties with the artists were treated as sacred ground. Photographs of those places were shown together with the paintings depicting them, to widespread acclaim from visitors. We are now pleased to announce our highly anticipated Nihonga Pilgrimage, version two.

This exhibition includes Oirase Ravine: Autumn, by Okuda Gensō, who depicted that beautiful spot in Aomori prefecture, and Camellia Petals Scattering (Important Cultural Property) by Hayami Gyoshū, whose subject was the renowned five-colored, double-blossom, scattering camellia (unusually, its petals scatter one by one) at Kyoto’s Jizō-in Temple. They are joined by Higashiyama Kaii’s End of the Year, which depicts a scene of machiya townhouses in Kyoto, seen from his favorite inn, and by other nihonga masterpieces with actual places as their themes. Many of the exhibits are new selections. Among them, Yamaguchi Akira’s Tokei (Tokyo): The Tokyo Olympic Games in 1940 and 1964, a bird’s-eye view painting of Tokyo with the Imperial Palace at its center, is being displayed for the first time since it joined our collection.

Our first Pilgrimage exhibition took viewers on a tour of locations throughout Japan. Now we have broadened our horizons to include places overseas. On this pilgrimage, you will pay your respects to sacred places throughout the world. You will explore, among many other works, Takeuchi Seihō’s Spring Breeze in a Castle Town, presenting a beautiful riverside view in Suzhou, China, in his fresh brushwork, Hirayama Ikuo’s Tower Bridge in Mist in London, and Senju Hiroshi’s The Pyramid, a painting of a pyramid in Egypt, under a clear sky.

Please embark with us on your global pilgrimage in the autumn of 2025 through our museum’s display of exceptional works by renowned painters.

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