Special Exhibition | Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture

Past Exhibitions

Through Art and Calligraphy, Enter the World of Hyakunin Isshu

2026年01月31日（土） - 2026年04月12日（日）

Even though it dates from nearly 800 years ago, everyone in Japan is familiar with the Hyakunin Isshu anthology. Encountered at school, it also lives on in karuta, a popular game played with cards. Working nearby, poet and literary scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) carefully sorted this enduring collection of 100 outstanding poems by 100 poets. While pondering which poems to select, Teika is believed to have resided, a little farther up Mt. Ogura from this museum, in a villa the site of which is marked by a monument in the grounds of Nison-in Temple. Now, in a special exhibition, the museum will be showing poet portraits and waka-poem calligraphy, including verses from Hyakunin Isshu.

Ukiyo-e, the Launch Pad for Bijin-ga

2025年10月11日（土） - 2026年01月18日（日）

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Uemura Shōen, a master of bijin-ga (paintings of beautiful women). In collaboration with the neighboring Fukuda Art Museum, Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture will present a special exhibition showcasing the ever-popular ukiyo-e alongside bijin-ga. With as many as 200 bijin-ga gathering in Arashiyama Kyoto, this is an unmissable exhibition this autumn.

Japanese Art at World’s Fairs from the Late Edo Period Onwards Expo: Nihonga in Profusion Hokusai • Taikan • Suiseki

2025年07月19日（土） - 2025年09月28日（日）

To commemorate the 2025 Expo being held here in Kansai, the Fukuda Art Museum is showing superlative works by painters who dared exhibit their art to the world, such as famous Katsushika Hokusai, Yokoyama Taikan and Ōhashi Suiseki.

A Life Absorbed in Painting: Kyoto Master Artist Konoshima Ōkoku

2025年04月26日（土） - 2025年07月06日（日）

Konoshima Ōkoku (1877–1938) was born in Sanjō Muromachi, Kyoto. When he was 16, he began studying under flower-and-bird painting specialist Imao Keinen. He honed his observation by sketching from life and his paintings soon attracted favorable attention. We held our last Ōkoku exhibition nearly four years ago in 2021. Responding to public interest we are now holding a long-awaited retrospective as a co-host exhibition with Fukuda Art Museum.

I Love Hyakunin Isshu

2025年02月01日（土） - 2025年04月13日（日）

This exhibition of early-modern and modern-period Japanese works features paintings connected with the poems in Hyakunin Isshu. Hyakunin Isshu (100 poets One Poem) is a anthology collected by Fujiwara no Teika.