New Year's Celebration at Tokyo National Museum: The Year of the Tiger and TNM's 150th Anniversary
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Surcoat (Jinbaori) with a Tiger, Edo period, 19th century (Gift of Mrs. Henry)
Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Rooms T1 & T2
January 2, 2022 (Sun) - January 30, 2022 (Sun)To celebrate the Museum’s 150th anniversary and the year of the tiger, we’ll be sharing artworks with this ferocious animal. Tigers can be found in art throughout Asia. Here we’ll explore how people imagined and depicted them, and what kind of symbolic meaning they had.
| Designation | Name | Creation/ Excavation/ Provenance |
Period | Acquisition/ Ownership/ Accession Number |
CMT | ||
| Highlight | Tiger-Shaped Pillow | Cizhou ware | Jin–Yuan dynasty, 12th–13th century | Gift of Dr. Yokogawa Tamisuke, TG-791 | |||
| The Sixth of the Sixteen Arhats | Nanbokuchō period, 14th century | A-225-6 | |||||
| The Buddha Entering Nirvana | Kamakura period, 14th century | A-757 | |||||
| Highlight | Dragon and Tiger | By Soga Chokuan (dates unknown) | Azuchi-Momoyama–Edo period, 17th century | A-125 | |||
| Highlight | Surcoat ("Jinbaori") with a Tiger | Edo period, 19th century | Gift of Mrs. Henry, I-3691 | ||||
| Large Bowl with a Tiger and Bamboo, Porcelain with underglaze blue | Imari ware | Edo period, 17th century | Gift of Mr. Sakamoto Katsuji, G-5886 | ||||
| Highlight | Important Cultural Property | Appendix to a Diplomatic Letter from the Joseon King | Injo of Joseon (1595–1649), Korea | Joseon dynasty, 1643 | B-1768-3-3 | ||
| Highlight | Important Cultural Property | Diplomatic Letter from the Joseon King | Injo of Joseon (1595–1649), Korea | Joseon dynasty, 1643 | B-1768-3-1 | ||
| Highlight | "Tiger Pelt" from "The Museum's Illustrations of Animals" | Artist unknown | Edo period–Meiji era, 19th century | QA-2374-2-11-1 | |||
| Highlight | Albums of Lacquer Paintings | By Shibata Zeshin (1807–91) | Meiji era, 19th century | H-4471 |