Past Special Exhibitions

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The Hokusai Bird Park
Tue, March 14, 2023 - Sun, May 21, 2023
This exhibition provides an opportunity to appreciate the many birds that Hokusai and his students depicted and the avian designs they created. Imagine yourself in a bird park as you experience close at hand these creatures’ beauty and the superb artistry deployed in creating these works.
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Hokusai at Play with the 100 Poems
Thu, December 15, 2022 - Sun, February 26, 2023
This exhibition focuses on Hokusai’s One Hundred Poems Explained by a Nurse, joined by a wide range of other works of art related to One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems, in introducing that anthology. We hope you will enjoy these works, in which the powers of One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems and of Hokusai cross-fertilize and multiply.
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Hokusai Presents a Riot of Demons
Tue, June 21, 2022 - Sun, August 28, 2022
This exhibition introduces demon-related works from the popular A Hundred Tales series of polychrome prints, illustrated block-printed books, and other sources to explore how Hokusai, with his prodigious genius, perceived and expressed demons.
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"Scenery of Both Banks of the Sumida River" and "Sketches by Hokusai”, Special exhibits: Depictions of Mountains by Hokusai
Tue, May 24, 2022 - Sun, June 12, 2022
In this exhibition room, there is a reproduction of the Hokusai picture scroll, the "Scenery of Both Banks of the Sumida River" with a total length of about 7 m, and several full-scale replicas of books such as "Sketches by Hokusai". And the corner of the special exhibits holds on the Depictions of Mountains by Hokusai.
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Hokusai － Floral Glory
Tue, March 15, 2022 - Sun, May 22, 2022
The flowers of the four seasons at their finest!