By ERENA TANAKA/ Staff Writer
March 18, 2025 at 07:00 JST
“Lakeside” (1897) by Seiki Kuroda, an important cultural property housed at the Tokyo National Museum (Provided by the Tokyo National Museum)
The Tokyo National Museum is organizing a special exhibition of masterpieces from its collection at three facilities in Kanazawa in support of the disaster-ravaged Noto Peninsular.
The institution in the capital’s Ueno district is teaming up with 20 or so museums in Tokyo to send approximately 100 artworks for the exhibition slated to start in fall.
The peninsula suffered significant damage from torrential rain in September last year while the region was still recovering from the magnitude-7.6 earthquake that occurred on Jan. 1 the same year.
Titled “Hito (people), Noto, Art,” the exhibition will be held at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art from Nov. 15 to Dec. 21.
It will also take place at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from Dec. 13 to March 1, 2026, and run at the National Crafts Museum from Dec. 9 to March 1, 2026.
The Tokyo National Museum will present “Lakeside,” an important cultural property by Seiki Kuroda, “Beauty Looking Back” by Moronobu Hishikawa, “Hanshan and Shide” by contemporary artist Tadanori Yokoo, and many other pieces.
The National Museum of Western Art, the Suntory Museum of Art and other institutions will also exhibit artworks from their collections.
Admission will be free for residents in disaster-affected areas.
The organizer is also planning to host tours for children and students and use the profits as relief money.
In addition, the Tokyo museum will use replicas of “Pine Trees,” a folding screen by Tohaku Hasegawa designated as a national treasure, and other works to offer art viewing programs across the prefecture.
Masato Matsushima, director of Curatorial Planning at the Tokyo National Museum, said he heard from many disaster victims that they felt “abandoned” after the extensive news coverage about the Noto region.
“First and foremost, I want to tell people in the Noto region and elsewhere across Ishikawa Prefecture that that is not true and that Tokyoites care about them all the time,” he said.
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