Art Festivals & Events

Kawai Gyokudō (1873-1957) created richly lyrical paintings of Japan’s natural environment. The Yamatane Museum of Art is delighted to present a retrospective exhibition of seven decades of Gyokudō’s work. Yamazaki Taneji, the founder of our museum, was good friends with Gyokudō, so that he frequently visited Gyokudō’s home in the rather remote Okutama district of Tokyo even during the war. Works by Gyokudō in the museum collection now total seventy-one, thanks to that relationship. This exhibition traces Gyokudō’s path as an artist through a large number of magnificent works. We hope that this exhibition will be an opportunity to savor the intense gaze with which Gyokudō addressed nature, the warm character that led so many people to admire him, and the compelling appeal of his art.