Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection II: Women Artists of Kyoto – bearing burdens / burdens born July 3 (Saturday) — September 5 (Sunday) Exhibition space: main building, south, first floor.
Hisako Kajiwara, Sisters, Taisho period

Women artists, according to the period, have been known variously as ‘keishu-gaka’ (accomplished women artists), ’joryu-gaka’ (a term designating the emergence of women artists forming new currents of art among male artists) and ‘josei-gaka’ (a term merely designating the gender of the artist). This exhibition will stimulate thought about the roles women artists have born or been made to bear in society through the works of women painters based in Kyoto from the modern to the contemporary. Around 80 works by representative artists such as Uemura Shoen, Ito Shoha, Komatsu Kaei, Akino Fuku, Okusa Miyoko, Yurimoto Keiko, Mitani Toshiko, Hirota Tatsu, Kitagawa Eigetsu and Tashiro Masako will be displayed.

• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I:
  The Round and Rectangular
• Kyoten 2010
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection II:
  Women Artists of Kyoto – bearing burdens / burdens born
• European Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection: Ota Kijiro and his Genealogy
• The Takashimaya Collection with the History of Modern Art
• The 95th Inten:
  Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute
• The 130th Anniversary of the Founding of Kyoto City University of Arts: The Formation of Kyoto Nihonga – The Master Painter’s Challenges
• The 42nd Nitten Kyoto Exhibition
• Shinran – Founder of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Sect of Buddhism