Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I: Time/Space Travels - The Story from Looking at Art April 4th (Saturday) — June 7th (Sunday)
Kikuchi Keigetsu, Haihateroma (a utopia in an Okinawan legend), 1928

From modern times, what kinds of developments and displays has the function of art, furnished with telling stories, been put to use? From the collection cum time capsule, the exhibition will take a space/time journey through the corpus of stories found in the art of Kyoto. Works by Akino Fuku, Kusube Yaichi, Hibino Goho, and the collaborative piece, ‘The Tale of Urashima,’ by Kitawaki Noboru and others, will be exhibited.

• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I:
  Time/Space Travels - The Story from Looking at Art
• Kyoten 2009
• The Louvre Museum Exhibition: Master Paintings of 17th Century Europe
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection II:
  Words by Artists, Looks from Viewers - Meetings in the Museum
• The 94th Inten:
  Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection III:
  The Fleeting and Transient
• The 41st Nitten Kyoto Exhibition
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection IV:
  From One Flower to Another, The Shapes of the Rapport