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TFAM’s European painting exhibition opens in Toyama
On October 17, the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design held the opening ceremony of “400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum” exhibition. The event, organized to commemorate the Toyama museum’s fifth anniversary, was sponsored by the host museum, the Toyama prefectural government and The Kitanippon Shimbun newspaper. Toyama Governor Hachiro Nitta, The Kitanippon Shimbun president Makoto Kamachi, TFAM Director Akira Gokita and Executive Director Akira Kaneko attended the ceremony, with Gokita serving as guest speaker.
The exhibition in Toyama features 83 pieces created from the 16th century Italian Renaissance to the 20th century Europe-wide. It will open from September 17 and run until November 20.
September 17, 2022TFAM’s Robert Capa exhibition to open at Kobe Fashion Museum
On September 9, the Kobe Fashion Museum (KFM) held the opening ceremony (photo) of the exhibition “Robert Capa,” which the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum organized drawing on some 100 works from its extensive photography collection. The exhibition is sponsored by KFM as well as the Kobe Shimbun Co. Ltd. and Mainichi Shimbun newspapers. TFAM Director Akira Gokita attended the event as its guest speaker, as did KFM Director Teruyuki Omode and Kobe Shimbun President Ryutaro Takanashi. The exhibition will run from September 10 to November 6.
September 9, 2022TFAM’s Western paintings exhibition opens in Kumamoto, Kyushu
On July 16, the opening ceremony of the “400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum” exhibition was held at the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art. The exhibition is being sponsored by the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art and Kumamoto Telecasting Corporation. TFAM Director Akira Gokita spoke at the opening ceremony following addresses from Kumamoto Prefectural Governor Ikuo Kabashima and Kumamoto Telecasting chair Masaru Motomatsu. Kumamoto City Mayor Kazufumi Onishi also spoke at the event.
The exhibition features 82 works from the TFAM collection selected from a broad range of genres and spans an epoch from the 16th to 20th centuries. “400 Years of Western Paintings” will run from July 16 to September 4.
July 16, 2022World-famous comic character comes to museum
On June 18, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum opened the “Moomin Comic Strips Exhibition,” the comic book character created by Tove Jansson (1914-2001), one of Finland’s most renowned artists who was also a famous writer and cartoonist for both children and adults. First appearing on the UK daily Evening News in 1954, the Moomin comic strip ran for some 20 years. Ms. Jansson’s Moomin books have been translated into over 50 languages to date.
The “Moomin” exhibition features stories and comics never translated into Japanese, displaying a total of 280 or so works, including original drawings, sketches and episodes.
TFAM asks for the cooperation and patience of visitors as we continue to observe strict Covid safety protocols.
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Ever-evolving story of transportation caught on camera
From June 11, the exhibition, “Vehicles in Photography: The Evolution of Transportation Modes,” opened for public viewing at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s No. 7 Permanent Gallery. Drawn from some 20,000 prized photographs belonging to our museum’s collection, “Vehicles in Photography” follows the evolution of transportation captured through a camera’s viewfinder—from horses, camels and steam locomotives to automobiles, aircraft and spacecraft—and with it, the ever-expanding worldview of humanity itself. Among the exhibition’s highlights are pictures of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s nascent flights into the air by William Preston Mayfield and stills of the Space Shuttle Challenger provided by the US space agency NASA.
June 15, 2022Exhibition of Japan’s most renowned woodblock artists opens
On April 2, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum opened “Hokusai, Hiroshige, Yoshida and Hasui: Landscape of Journey in Japanese Woodblock Prints,” an exhibition of works from the museum’s collection by such masters as Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Yoshida Hiroshi and Kawase Hasui. These artists, active from the Edo to Showa eras, found inspiration in landscapes and the people who coexisted in harmony with nature, beautifully capturing scenes that not only won them renown among their contemporaries in Japan but around the world.
April 2, 2022Saga museum holds exhibition organized by TFAM
On March 18, the Saga Prefectural Art Museum opened the “Masterpieces of European Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection” exhibition. Consisting of some 80 works, the TFAM-organized exhibition features renowned painters over some four centuries, from those who lived during the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century up to the 20th century. Made possible by the Saga Prefectural Art Museum as well as with the support of the Saga Television Station, the exhibition concludes on May 8.
March 19, 2022TFAM’s Western paintings exhibition opens in Tochigi
On October 22, the opening ceremony of “400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum” exhibition was held at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is being cosponsored by the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts and local Shimotsuke Shimbun newspaper. TFAM Director Akira Gokita and Executive Director Akira Kaneko attended the ceremony, where Tochigi Prefectural Governor Tomikazu Fukuda and Shimotsuke Shimbun Representative Director Takuya Kishimoto gave keynote speeches.
“400 Years of European Paintings” features some of Europe’s finest works spanning the Renaissance to the modern era. The exhibition will run from October 23 to December 26.
October 22, 2021“This Is Japan” exhibition opens at Oita Prefectural Art Museum
On October 8, the Oita Prefectural Art Museum in Oita City, Oita Prefecture opened the “This Is Japan” exhibition organized by the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. First held in Kyoto to commemorate the 25th General Conference of Museums in 2019, the exhibition features some 60 masterpieces of Japanese art from the Edo Period meticulously selected from the TFAM collection. The Oita venue was made possible in part through the support of the Oita Asahi Broadcasting Co., Ltd..
Attending the opening ceremony held on the same day was Oita City Mayor Kiichiro Sato and various other local dignitaries, along with TFAM Director Akira Gokita and Executive Director Akira Kaneko (photo). The exhibition will be held at the Oita Prefectural Art Museum until November 14.
October 8, 2021TFAM’s “Masterpieces of European Oil Painting” opens in Okayama
On July 9, the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (OPMA) held the opening ceremony of “Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism,” a Tokyo Fuji Art Museum exhibition featuring 83 works by European masters over a four-century period. The exhibition was organized by OPMA, Sanyo Shimbun and RSK Sanyo Broadcasting, with Okayama Prefectural Governor Ryuta Ibaragi and Kenichi Hara, chair and president of RSK Sanyo Broadcasting, serving as the two keynote speakers.
TFAM Director Akira Gokita attended the ceremony; he also delivered a lecture at OPMA on July 10. The exhibition is slated to run from July 9 to August 29.
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