Exhibitions

This exhibition presents contemporary Japanese art dealing with the complexities of gender and sexual identity, the differences between male and female, and all that lies between.

Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825) was a designer of woodblock prints of the genre known as ukiyo-e (pictures from the floating world), an illustrator of books, and a painter.

Landscape (sansui-ga) is one of three artistic subjects deriving from the Chinese classification of art.

Originally, the netsuke was a carved and embellished clothing accessory that was tied with a cord to other items, known as sagemono (hanging things).

Japanese tradition is rich in legends and folktales that are also represented in the plastic arts, forming a body of work indivisible from the culture of Japan. As in the rest of the world, the fables (densetsu) and folktales (mukashi-banashi: ancient stories) embody the moral values and way of life of the country.

Hokusai (1760-1849) is recognized as one of the greatest artists in the world. Throughout his long life he created more than 35,000 illustrations and sketches for some 500 books.

n 1603, after a long period of bloody civil wars, the Tokugawa dynasty came to power - the military regime of the shoguns - and ruled for more than 250 years.

This exhibition is the second of its kind since the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art reopened its doors to the public in 1995.

In ancient Japan, artists, poets and monks were accustomed to travelling about the countryside and recording their experiences in paintings and poems.

Pictures of birds and flowers - in Japanese kacho-e or kacho-ga - were particular favourites of the traditional Japanese artists. Kacho-e is one of the three pictorial motifs deriving from the Chinese classification system.