Exhibition Schedule

Open Hours

11:00~18:00* 11:00~19:00 on Fridays
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Day Closed

Mondays during the exhibition
(Open on public holidays, closed on the following weekday)

The final exhibition to commemorate the grand reopening of the Sen-Oku Hakukokan Museum Tokyo focuses on the symbols of the Sumitomo Collection, its fine Chinese bronzes. Handed down for about 3,000 years, they are the origins of East Asian arts and crafts. This commemorative exhibition is a special opportunity bringing select masterpieces from the Sumitomo Collection to exhaustively showcase their appeal from various angles including their forms, motifs, and inscriptions as well as the history of their appreciation. Digital content created using 3D measurements will also be unveiled at the exhibition venue. Don’t miss this glimpse into the ancient yet novel world of Chinese bronzes.

Open Hours

11:00~18:00* 11:00~19:00 on Fridays
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Day Closed

Mondays during the exhibition
(Open on public holidays, closed on the following weekday)

The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, houses one of Japan’s finest collections of East Asian ceramics. At the core of this collection are about 1,000 pieces of East Asian ceramics collected according to the aesthetics of ATAKA Eiichi (1901-1994) of the Ataka & Co., Ltd.
Formerly in danger of becoming scattered and lost, this “Ataka Collection” was donated to Osaka City by the Osaka-based Sumitomo Group, which also contributed to the construction of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics. This exhibition presents gems of East Asian ceramics through 101 selected pieces from the Ataka Collection, including two national treasures and eleven important cultural properties.

Open Hours

11:00~18:00* 11:00~19:00 on Fridays
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Day Closed

Mondays during the exhibition
(Open on public holidays, closed on the following weekday)

The Japanese painter KONOSHIMA Okoku (1877-1938) has been reappraised in recent years for epitomizing the art world of early modern Kyoto.
Though well known for his animal paintings, Okoku is no less notable for the fact that he was a lifelong painter of landscapes.
His youth spent sketching scenery throughout Japan allowed him to develop a modernistic style of landscape painting incorporating the spatial awareness of Western painting. Meanwhile, due to his affinity for Chinese poetry from an early age and love of ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings, Okoku gradually arrived at novel yet familiar representations of landscapes that seem to transplant the idealized world of the Chinese literati into Japanese scenery. This exhibition also introduces Okoku’s landscape sketches as well as the paintings and bonseki, stones that represent landscape scenery, that he collected. While providing an overview of his diverse landscape paintings, it probes their underlying “landscapes in one’s heart.”

Open Hours

11:00~18:00* 11:00~19:00 on Fridays
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Day Closed

Mondays during the exhibition
(Open on public holidays, closed on the following weekday)

Ideals for lifestyle and literary themes are hidden in East Asian landscape paintings. In particular, literati paintings reveal an endless variety of styles of seclusion from the world, from “radical” seclusion aimed at active sequestration to escape from the harshness of reality to “joyful” seclusion seeking the laidback life of the countryside.
This exhibition presents diverse styles of seclusion depicted amid the pursuit of the mindfulness of the Chinese and Japanese literati, who enjoyed “intentionally focusing on the present moment and simply observing with a detached state of mind, without making judgments.”