New Otani Art Museum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for New Otani Art Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Ryusei Kishida "Art and Life"
Ryusei Kishida (1891-1929) is well-known for this "Portrait of Reiko", in which he used his own beloved daughter as model. He was one of the most outstanding and unique painters in the Japanese "yoga" (...)
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Works from the Collection Exhibition
[Image: Sakuraya Kijima, "Sea Breeze," colored silk on hanging scroll, 139.8 × 50.7 cm, Otani Collection]
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"Mesmerized - Japanese Ceramics in the Spotlight Today" Exhibition
Japan enjoys something of a reputation as an international Mecca for ceramics. In postwar Japan, ceramicists used traditional techniques as a base while exploring original ways of working with materials, (...)
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Permanent Collection Exhibition
Approximately 35 paintings and traditional craft works will be on display from the museum's collection including: Modern Nihon-ga and crafts -Seihou Takeuchi "Magaki-ni-Suzume" -Yukihiko Yasuda "Shungyou" -Gahou (...)
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"The New Year Exhibition"
Approximately 30 ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Nihon-ga paintings and western paintings with the new year theme will be on display. [Image: Zaichu Hara "Ippontouchouzu" (circa 1829) from the Otani Collection] (...)
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Permanent Collection Exhibition
Selected modern Nihon-ga works and French modern and contemporary paintings from the museum's collection will be on display. [Image: Kansetsu Hashimoto "Snowy Sky" Silk painting 45.0 x 52.0cm Otani (...)
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Fumiko Hori Exhibition
Approximately 140 sketches of flowers, plants, animals, fish, insects, Japanese landscapes and foreign scenes will be selected from the artist's massive collection for display according to theme in this (...)
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Permanent Collection Exhibition
[Image: Pierre Laprade "Grape Harvest" 1927, 92.0x65.0 cm (oil on canvas)]
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"Beauty and Glamor: Ukiyo-e Paintings of Japanese Women from the Otani Collection"
"Ukiyo-e" depict the "uki (floating, fun)" world, and were popularized between the 17th and 19th centuries among the Edo public. Ukiyo-e can be divided largely into "hanga" prints that are mass-produced (...)
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Hiroshige Utagawa "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo in the Four Seasons"
"One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" is one of Hiroshige Utagawa's (1797-1858) representative works from his later years. The prints depict scenes from the big city Edo at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate (...)
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"Sumo Wrestlers of the Edo Era: Nishiki-E Woodblock Prints from the Kokichi Otani Collection" Exhibition
The origins of the Japanese national sport, Sumo wrestling can be traced back to ancient myths. It was during the Edo Period that Sumo wrestling was established as the competitive sport that we are familiar (...)
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Museum Collection Exhibition
[Suisho Nishiyama 'Inawashiro']
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"New Spring" Exhibition
[Image: Horyu Uegakim "Beauty Playing Battledore", Edo Era, from the Ootani Collection]
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Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition
The Kai Higashiyama / Nikkei Nihonga Award has been awarded to up and coming Nihonga artists since 2002. The contest honors the work of Kai Higashiyama, who passed away in 1999, and discovers young artists (...)
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Henri Riviere "Les Trente-six Vues de la Tour Eiffel"
Henri Rivière encountered Japonism in late 20th century in the Cafe "Chat Noir" renowned for its avant garde and intellectual clientele and creative interaction between them. From then on the artist carried (...)
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Hasui Kawase Exhibition
150 of Hasui Kawase's works that were created before the Great Kansai Earthquake will be displayed in three categories: Taisho Period, from the Earthquake until before the war, and post WW2. Visitors will (...)
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Collected Works
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Works by Joshibi University Graduates from the Omura Collection "Colorful Echos"
This exhibition consists of forty selected works by 27 graduates of the Joshibi University of Art and Design from the Omura Collection. Joshibi University of Art and Design was established in 1900 as (...)
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Kandinsky, Klee, Marc, Münter "The Painters of Der Blaue Reiter"
In 1912 in Munich, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Franz Marc (1880-1916) first published the art magazine "Der Blaue Reiter" which had a great impact on art movements all around Europe. The ideas at (...)
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Bernard Buffet: Lithographie
Born in Paris in 1928, Bernard Buffet saw his popularity grow after sending his work to the Salon des Indépendants in 1947. His work, not limited to paintings, expanded to block print, illustration, and (...)
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New Year Exhibition
For this new year exhibitions, over 30 gems of the Otani collection will be put on display, from some splendid ukyo-e to works by Millet, Buffet or Vlaminck.
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Collection Exhibition
Japanese paintings such as "Yuki-zora (Snow Sky)" by Kansetsu Hashimoto, "Tateyama-renpo no Asa (The Morning of Tateyama Peaks)" by Senjin Gokura and oil paintings such as "Bouquet de Fleurs" by Vlaminck (...)
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Lucie Rie: Modernism Embodied in Vessel Form
In this exhibition, the life and techniques of sculptor Lucie Rie will be explored through 60 of her ceramic works. The Austrian born Rie (1902 - 1995) had always been fascinated by the ceramics turning-wheel. (...)
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40th Anniversary - Ukiyo-e Paintings from the Otani Collection
Hotel New Otani celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The exhibition looks at the progress of the world-famous collection of Ukiyo-e owned by the founder Yonetaro Otani.
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The Beautiful Pastoral Landscape from Prints of the Barbizon School
An exhibition featuring around 140 works from the collection of Hideyuki Endo, who is one of the biggest collectors of the Barbizon School of paintings in Japan. Mainly focusing on copper engravings, this (...)
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Permanent Collection
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The New Year Exhibition
Coming along with the freshy new year, Japanese traditional Ukiyo-e paintings (paintings done with a brush and colored ink on paper or silk and not carved in a block of wood for printing) made by Uegaki (...)
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The 2nd Nikkei Japanese Painting Award in honor of Kaii Higashiyama
"Nikkei Japanese Painting Award in honor of Higashiyama Kaii" was established by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. in 2002 with the aim of recognizing up-and-coming young artists for japanese style paintings. (...)
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Kitaoji Rosanjin
For the first time in tokyo, over 90 works of the Kawashima Ceramics Collection will be displayed.




