The 130th Anniversary of the Founding of Kyoto City University of Arts: The Formation of Kyoto Nihonga – The Master Painter’s Challenges September 25 (Saturday) — November 7 (Sunday) Exhibition space: main building, south, first floor
Bakusen Tsuchida, Woman Dressing Her Hair, 1911, University Art Museum of Kyoto City University of Arts

In Meiji 13 (1880), what is known as Japan’s first Kyoto school of painting, the Kyoto Prefecture Painting School, was established. The 130 year history is continued in its present manifestation as the Kyoto City University of Arts. This exhibition displays masterpieces by Takeuchi Seiho, Uemura Shoen, Kikuchi Keigetsu, Murakami Kagaku, Tsuchida Bakusen and others which provide the history to ‘The Birth of Kyoto Nihonga (Japanese-style painting)’.

• 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