Ogasawara’s landscapes, based on his meticulous sketches, incorporate Japanese painting techniques and maximize rich encounters with nature. These paintings confer a warm style with gold color as a basic tone, conveying clear, simple expression amid elegant composition. Exhibited are works of satoyama nature, depicting mountains with cherry blossoms and other flowers blooming profusely plus waterside scenes with clear, flowing streams.

This signature exhibition of works from our collection showcases works of seasonal flowers and landscapes by Yoshihiko Yoshida, Fumiko Hori, Tadashi Ishimoto, Takehiko Mori, Matazo Kayama, Takashi Asada, Ikuo Hirayama, Susumu Maki, Yoshiyuki Nakano, Kimitsugu Matsumura, Yukihiko Kurihara, Rieko Morita, Takeshi Ushio, Norihiko Saito, Naoyuki Odano, and others.

Shin Hayashi’s consistent yet variegated work—decayed playground equipment in parks, discarded industrial products, deep-sea creatures, and animals in zoos as thematic content—offers hidden dramas projecting the vague anxiety and sense of stagnation felt today. In recent years, however, Hayashi delivers work conveying the vitality of the natural world, such as old trees and flowers, and drives forward in a new direction evoking hope and light. We will exhibit his cutting-edge contemporary Nihonga, focusing on works Hayashi exhibited at the Nitten Exhibitions.

From works in the museum's collection, we introduce works by the following artists active in Nitten Exhibitions and those currently active: Shinsen Tokuoka, Eizo Kato, Kaii Higashiyama, Yasushi Sugiyama, Tatsuo Takayama, Yuki Sekiguchi, Reiichi Tsuchiya, Kiyokazu Yonetani, Isami Honda, Toshiyuki Higashi, Yukishige Sakamoto, Maho Yamada, Sohei Iwata, Masamitsu Kimura, and others.