Special Exhibition | Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture

Past Exhibitions

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.

Haiku and Haiga: The Charisma of Two Poets, Bashō and Buson

2024年10月12日（土） - 2025年01月19日（日）

When haiku is mentioned, the names Matsuo Bashō and Yosa Buson probably spring to mind. This exhibition introduces a number of outstanding works of haiku and haiga (paintings depicted together with haiku), including the "Furuikeya" tanzaku strip (famous frog poem), which was handwritten by Bashō himself, the the Manuscript Scroll of Nozaraishi Kikō [Weather-beaten Bones Travelogue] also written and illustrated by himself, and the "Ikaidashi no" (haiku and painting) written and handpainted by Buson. This exhibition is a fitting tribute to Arashiyama, a place associated with these two charismatic figures.