The occasion is a journey to rediscover the history of Japanese art, which is revisited through the eyes of one of the most important contemporary artists of the Land of the Rising Sun, Takashi Murakami. The idea is to review some iconic images, very famous historical paintings, through a lens that transforms and reinterprets them. Thus the history of Japanese art “Murakamized” offers viewers new iconographies and reflects on the erosion of the ancient splendor of the nation. Thus, for example, Murakami takes a very famous work - Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu Byōbu (Scenes in Kyoto and Surroundings) from the Tokyo National Museum - and populates its clouds of gold leaves with skulls, a memento mori inspired by a visit to the Toribeno cemetery. To arrive at these juxtapositions, and there are many of them, Murakami combines his sketches with AI-generated images and fragments of his other works in a process that parallels the inventiveness of previous artists in depicting unknown or imaginary creatures.