Exhibition of Masato Yanagisawa, whose world travels led him to draw many cultural heritage and natural heritage sites. In his works depicting European towns, the Great Wall of China, and three major waterfalls of the world is a dynamism that evokes a sense of ongoing history and communicates a sense of nature’s raw power. On display are his monumental masterpieces—a big split-screen work about seven meters long and three six-panel screens, as well as a new series of Japanese landscapes including Ogasawara, Tai-no-Ura, Hodaka, and Okushiga, all pointing to the artist’s horizon.

Masato Yanagisawa
Born in 1955, Nagano Prefecture. Completes postgraduate work in Nihonga at Tokyo University of the Arts. Awards: 1st Suga Tatehiko Grand Prize Exhibition, Honorable Mention, 1990. As a result of winning 2nd Gotoh Memorial Cultural Awards, Most Promising Young Talent Award in Fine Arts, he studies in Florence in 1992: 2nd Suga Tatehiko Grand Prize Exhibition, Grand Prize, 1993. Yanagisawa’s works, characterized by a dry textured surface, conjure a Nihonga world uniquely composed to incorporate time and space.

Exhibition of Reiji Hiramatsu, an artist highly acclaimed internationally in solo exhibitions held in public museums of France and Germany. Hiramatsu, former Tama Art University professor, achieves compelling design derived from long study of Japonisme, and boldly pursues to modernize decorative paintings such as Rimpa and Edo art. On display are representative works in his early Paths series and latest works.

Reiji Hiramatsu
Born in Tokyo, 1941. Awards: 1st Chunichi Art Award Exhibition, Grand Prize; 1st Okada Mokichi Prize of MOA Museum; 10th Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition, Grand Prize; 12th Okada Mokichi Prize, Grand Prize. In 2013, holds a solo exhibition at the public Giverny Museum of Impressionisms, France, the first such exhibition for Japanese artists, and traveling exhibition at National Asian Museum in Berlin, Germany. A former professor of Tama Art University.

One of the most powerful draws of contemporary Nihonga is the sparkle of mineral pigments. Enter this exhibition and experience some of the finest representative works from our collection, by such leading lights in contemporary Nihonga as Kyujin Yamamoto, Kaii Higashiyama, Matazo Kayama, Ikuo Hirayama, Yoshihiko Yoshida, Fumiko Hori, Susumu Maki, Nobutaka Oka, Takeshi Ushio, Tadao Okazaki, Sho Ishimoto, Rieko Morita, and others.