As one of Japan’s oldest public museums, its elegant façade, neoclassical symmetry and curved tile rooftop have been celebrated as a Kyoto landmark for more than eight decades. Now, Kyoto City Kyocera ...

First opened in 1933 as the Kyoto Enthronement Memorial Museum of Art to commemorate the enthronement of Emperor Showa, this museum has changed names several ti ...

In 2000, the Kyoto National Museum commemorated the death of Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) with an exhibition that generated a surge of interest in the artist. The boom has possibly reached its zenith ...

The much-delayed reopening of the newly minted Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art (formerly the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art) has arrived. With the refit and new additions of the museum completed ...

The beloved museum—considered by locals to be an embodiment of the city’s modern spirit—first opened in 1933 as the Kyoto Enthronement Memorial Museum of Art in Kyoto’s Okazaki district.

KYOTO--Featuring erotic works created by some of the most celebrated ukiyo-e artists, the Hosomi Museum here is hosting its first “shunga” exhibition in eight years.