The Museum has been acquiring Kyoto modern art since its inauguration in 1933, and currently has holdings of over 3,800 artworks comprised of a core of Japanese paintings along with Western style paintings, sculpture, prints, crafts, and calligraphy.
\nThe Museum is particularly proud of its highly regarded collection of paintings by Meiji and Showa period Kyoto artists. Introducing paintings with seasonal themes in tandem with the changing seasons, the Museum gives viewers a rich sense of the seasons in Kyoto.
\nA feeling of summer in the early Showa period can be gleaned from works such as Kitano Tsunetomi Sisters of a Merchant Family<\/i>, depicting a hot summer evening conversation in a garden, and Showa period oil painter Nakamura Ken-ichi\u2019s The Seto Inland Sea of Japan<\/i>.
\nTo give a feeling of activities from midwinter and early spring, this exhibition features works such as female painter Kitazawa Eigetsu\u2019s Bright Kimono<\/i>, depicting girls preparing their spring kimonos, and Nakamura Hosei\u2019s humorous winter peony brocade tapestry of plants wrapped in protective covering for the winter.
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