Exhibition ‘Japanese Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’ Opened

On March 20, the exhibition titled ‘Japanese Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’ opened at the Tokyo National Museum (until June 10). It displayed Japanese artworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The two major illustrated handscrolls in foreign collections, ‘Minister Kibi’s Adventures in China’ and ‘Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era’, which were shown in their entirety, while SOGA Shōhaku’s ‘Dragon and Clouds’, restored to its original sliding door appearance for the exhibition, was exhibited in Japan for the first time. The exhibition travelled to the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts (June 23 – December 9), the Kyushu National Museum (January 1, 2013 – March 17) and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts (April 2, 2013 – June 16). (Japanese)