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.
Held every five years and frequently attracting tens of millions of visitors, world expositions are the largest global events. Known also as world’s fairs and, these days, as expos, participating countries showcase their current science, technology, and culture. Decorative arts used to be thought highly indicative of cultural achievement. Consequently, by showing the works of Hokusai and other earlier artists, as well as ambitious works by contemporary painters, feudal and modern governments of Japan actively used expos as an opportunity to gain international recognition for the nation’s art and culture.
For the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, Ōhashi Suiseki, Hashimoto Gahō, Yokoyama Taikan, Takeuchi Seihō, and Uemura Shōen eagerly rose to the challenge of creating paintings to show what Japan could do. Among the awards they won, Ōhashi Suiseki became the first-ever nihonga artist to win an expo gold medal.
To obtain valuable foreign currency, most Japanese paintings exhibited at expos were sold in the host country. Consequently, these works cannot easily be exhibited in Japan today. The passion and skill of the expo artists, however, is amply evident in works they created around the same time.
To commemorate the 2025 Expo being held here in Kansai, the museum is showing superlative works by painters who dared exhibit their art to the world.
The exhibition is cohosted by the nearby Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture.
| Title | Japanese Art at World’s Fairs from the Late Edo Period Onwards Expo: Nihonga in Profusion Hokusai • Taikan • Suiseki |
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| Dates | July 19 (Sat.) 2025 - September 28 (Sun.) 1st period: July 19 (Sat.) - August 25 (Mon.) 2nd period: August 27 (Wed.) - September 28 (Sun.) |
| Closed | August 5 (Tue.), August 26 (Tue.), September 9 (Tue.), September 18 (Thu.) |
| Opening Hours | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (last entry 4:30 pm) |
| Admission Fee | General / University student: 1000yen (900yen) High School Stutdent (age 16-18): 600yen (500yen) Elementary / Junior high school student (age 7-15): 400yen (350yen) Disabled person and up to one helper: 600yen (500yen) *Prices in parentheses are for groups of 20 or more General / University student: 2,300yen High school student: 1,300yen Elementary / Junior high school student: 750yen Disabled person and up to one helper: 1,300yen |
| Organizers | Fukuda Art Museum Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture |
| Supported by (planned) | Kyoto prefecture, Kyoto City, Kyoto City Board of Education, Kyoto Chamber of Comomerce and Industry |
"Three Beauties" by Katsushika Hokusai
"Moonlit" by Yokoyama Taikan
"Hanshan Shide" by Otake Chikuha
"National Crisis" by Hirai Baisen
"Folktales of the Monkey-Crab Battle" by Suzuki Hyakunen
"Swift Horses" by Nozawa Joyo
"Cattle in Pastureland" by Takeuchi Seiho
"Puppet Drama" by Uemura Shoen
"Tsutsu-izutsu" by Shimomura Kanzan
