YOKOYAMA TAIKAN Fifty Years On ― A legend in the making

The exhibition will include Yokoyama Taikan's representative masterpieces from among the collections held by domestic museums as follows.
The whole 40-meter picture scroll titled The Wheel of Life (Important Cultural Property; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), several from the landscape series Ten Sea Themes and Ten Mountain Themes including Ten Mountain Themes: Dragon and Mt.Fuji of which existence was confirmed in 2002 creating a lot of headlines after 60 years since completion. Autumn Maples (Adachi Museum of Art), and Cherry Blossoms at Night (The Okura Cultural Foundation). In addition to above, some homecoming works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will also be exhibited for the first time in Tokyo. Thus, the exhibition will provide an ideal retrospective opportunity to overview the works of the great artist who is still referred to as "The Japan's representative artist" after 5 decades since his death. As titled "A Legend in the making," this exhibition is intended to be not only a retrospective but also to provide an opportunity to inspire a new prospective for appreciating the works of the great master. Old classic works will also be displayed for comparison which have close bearing on Taikan's artistic approach. (There will be periodic rotation of works displayed during the event.)