I’m excited to announce that an exhibition of my Kyosai collection with many newly acquired paintings and prints will tour Japan next year!
The 2026 exhibition dates and venues are as follows:
Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, April 22-June 21.
Kobe City Museum, July 11-September 23.
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, October 10-December 6.
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I was honoured to receive this year's International Ukiyo-e Society Award for contributions to the field.
Here is the link to my acceptance speech/presentation now posted on YouTube:
I’m delighted to announce that Dr. Sadamura Koto, the curator of my Kyōsai collection and a visiting researcher at the British Museum has just published her PHD dissertation.
The details are as follows:
Sadamura, Koto, Kawanabe Kyōsai no chosen: Kyōga de hiraita shinjidai (Kawanabe Kyōsai's Endeavour: Exploring a New Era through Comic Pictures), Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2023.
Our new catalogue, no. 28 has just been posted: View online.
In addition, we’re delighted to announce that the cover item, a marvellous painting by Kunichika, has just been acquired by the British Museum.
One of the leading BBC radio arts programs, recently featured a podcast on the Royal Academy's Kyōsai Exhibition.
Click the link and have a listen to our discussion with Christopher Harding:
Curator Dr Sadamura Koto speaks with Israel Goldman, collector of the works from the “Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection” at the Royal Academy of Arts, to explore the appeal of Kyōsai and the relationship between curating and collecting.
