Jump to content
Font Size：

Language

Accompanying the "Twin Peaks" exhibition : "Japanese Calligraphy in the Showa and Heisei Eras"

  • Image of "above: Living Black and White, By Aoyama San'u, Tokyo National Museum below: Japanese Alphabet Poem, By Hibino Goho, Tokyo National Museum"

    above: Living Black and White, By Aoyama San'u, Tokyo National Museum

    below: Japanese Alphabet Poem, By Hibino Goho, Tokyo National Museum

    Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Thematic Exhibition Room, Heiseikan and Room T3
    January 11, 2006 (Wed) - February 19, 2006 (Sun)

    This special project commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the "Twenty Contemporary Calligraphers" exhibition.

 General Information
Period Wednesday, January 11 - Sunday, February 19, 2006
Venue Room T3, Honkan & Thematic Exhibition Room, Heiseikan, Tokyo National Museum (Ueno Park)
Hours 9:30 - 17:00 (last entry 30 minutes before closing)
Closed Monday
Admissions Adults: 420 (210) yen, University Students: 130 (70) yen
* Brackets indicate fees for groups of 20 or more persons.
* Special exhibition "Twin Peaks - The Finest of Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy" is charged separately.
* High school students and under, and persons 65 years old and over are admitted free. Please present ID upon entry.
Access 10 minutes' walk from JR Ueno Station (Park exit) and Uguisudani Station
15 minutes' walk from Keisei Ueno Station and Tokyo Metro Ueno Station and Nezu station.
Organizers Tokyo National Museum; Asahi Shimbun
General Inquiries +81-3-3822-1111
Exhibition Homepage http://www.asahi.com/sho/event/ (Asahi com : In Japanese)
The website has closed with the end of the exhibition.
  Other Exhibitions
Twin Peaks: The Finest of Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy
Heiseikan, Wednesday, January 11 - Sunday, February 19, 2006
 Major Works on Display  
Part 1 (Room T3, Honkan)
Twelve works by calligraphers represented in "Twenty Contemporary Calligraphers" exhibitions of the past and now in the possession of the Tokyo National Museum
Living Black and White
  Living Black and White
By Aoyama San'u
Tokyo National Museum
Essay "Makura no Soshi" by Seishonagon
  Essay "Makura no Soshi" by Seishonagon
By Kumagai Tsuneko
Tokyo National Museum
Moran er Xiao "Saying Nothing, But Still Smiling"
  Moran er Xiao "Saying Nothing, But Still Smiling"
By Nishikawa Yasushi
Tokyo National Museum
Japanese alphabet Poem
  Japanese Alphabet Poem
By Hibino Goho
Tokyo National Museum
Poem anthology "Man' yo shu"
  Poem anthology "Man' yo shu"
By Morita Chikka
Tokyo National Museum
Part 2 (Thematic Exhibition Room, Heiseikan)
Twenty new works by calligraphers represented in the fiftieth "Twenty Contemporary Calligraphers" exhibition
 
Exhibitions