In 2026, the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo will present the exhibition Twilight, New Prints: From Kobayashi Kiyochika to Kawase Hasui, which traces the history of Japanese landscape prints through the theme of twilight. Beginning with Kobayashi Kiyochika’s 1876 views of Tokyo, known as “light paintings” for their unprecedented use of deep shadows and sudden glimmers, the show evokes the melancholy of a world fading with the end of the Edo Era. This sensibility reemerges in the rise of shin-hanga at the start of the twentieth century, a movement that revived the techniques and spirit of ukiyo-e to reinterpret the landscapes of modern Japan. Through works by Yoshida Hiroshi and Kawase Hasui, drawn from the Robert O. Muller Collection at the Smithsonian, the exhibition reveals how twilight became a metaphor for the passage between tradition and modernity, capturing the fragile moment where memory meets the desire for a new vision.
The National Museum of Art in Tokyo presents an exhibition devoted to Eric Carle, a key figure in twentieth-century picture books. The show traces his career through original works and working materials. The exhibition highlights the picture book as an autonomous artistic practice.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Marimekko, revisiting its history through the art of printmaking. Fabrics, garments, and graphic materials trace a visual language built on pattern and colour. The exhibition connects design, production, and everyday life.
The New National Theatre Tokyo presents a new production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra. The opera condenses a tragedy of obsession and violence into a single, intense act, driven by an extreme orchestral language. The performance is sung in German with surtitles and supported by audience-focused services.
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