Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection Ⅱ: Considering Pattern/Design January 27 (Friday) – March 25 (Sunday) Exhibition space: main building, south, first floor.
Kiyomizu Rokube Ⅴ (Rokuwa), Water Jar in the shape of a pail, 1915

Images appearing in craft are not called pictures, but pattern or design. Works repeating over again the same pattern are in existence as are the designs of single scenes. Designs are not drawn with the brush but carved, embedded or piled up in a variety of extensive methods. From traditional patterns to the original designs of contemporary craftsmen/women, and all the while searching through the various aspects of pattern/design, the exhibition approaches the attractions of pattern/design of the craft image in distinction to that of the picture. Works by Ito Suiko, Tomimoto Kenkichi, Kamisaka Sekka, and Minagawa Gekka among others will be exhibited.

• Shinran – Founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Sect of Buddhism
• Region of Encounter – Open-Air Art Exhibition
• Kyoten 2011
• Communication: Visualizing the Human Connection in the Age of Vermeer
• Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
• Masterpieces from the Permanent CollectionI Ⅰ
• Special Exhibition Art Exhibition of the 26th National Cultural Festival,Kyoto,2011
• The 43rd Nitten Kyoto Exhibition
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection Ⅱ