FY2020 Exhibitions
April 1 – October 4 December 5 – March 31
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Permanent Exhibition: History of Kinokuni —People's Lives and Culture—
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March 14 – April 19
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Curated Exhibition: Calligraphic Works from the Edo Period —Brushstrokes of the People of Kinokuni—
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April 25 – June 7
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Special Exhibition:
Kumano as a Land of Warriors —Samurai and
Castles in Southern Kii Province—
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June 13 – July 12日
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Curated Exhibition:
Manago Yusen —Painter from Tanabe, Kii
Province—
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July 18 – August 23
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Curated Summer
Exhibition: Hamaguchi Goryo —Commemorating
the 200th Birthday of the Hero of “The Fire of Rice Sheaves”— |
August 29 – October 4
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Curated Exhibition:
Kitamura Susumu and Tokugawa Yorisada
—People Who Fostered the Nanki Music
Library— |
October 17 – November 23
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Special Exhibition:
National Treasure
Kokawa-dera Engi and the History of
Kokawa-dera Temple —Celebrating the 1,250th
Anniversary of the Temple’s Founding—
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December 5 – January 24
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Curated Exhibition: The
Beauty of Folding Screens —Masterpieces from
the Wakayama Prefectural Museum Collection—
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January 30 – March 7
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Curated Exhibition:
Mountain of Prayer and Learning —Treasures
from the Koyasan University Library
Collection—
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March 13 — April 18
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Curated Exhibition:
Illustrated Stories from Kinokuni
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Permanent exhibition: History of
Kinokuni—Lives and Culture of Local People—
Tuesday, April 2–Sunday, October 6,
2019 Saturday, February 1–Tuesday, March 31,
2020
This exhibition
clearly illustrates the 30,000-year history of
Kinokuni—present-day Wakayama
Prefecture—focusing on the lives and culture of
local people, in seven chronological sections.
Each section also displays replicas you can
touch. Please note that the permanent exhibition
will not be on show during the period of the
special exhibition “Tokugawa Yorinobu.”
←Photo of the
permanent exhibition room at Wakayama
Prefectural Museum
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Curated exhibition: Calligraphic Works from the
Edo Period
Saturday, March
14–Sunday, April 19, 2020
In
the Edo Period, calligraphic education permeated
among not only domain lords and samurai, but
also peasants and merchants. The effects of the
education can be found in calligraphic works of
classical Chinese poems and prose pieces, which
were often written at that time. This exhibition
sheds light on calligraphic works by people in
Kinokuni in the Edo Period.
←Writing of a shichiritsu-style poem, by Gion
Nankai (Wakayama Prefectural Museum)
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Special Exhibition: Kumano as a Land of
Warriors —Samurai and Castles in Southern
Kii Province—
Saturday, April 25 to
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Behind
its official status as a sacred place,
Kumano in the Warring States Period was also
a land of warriors in rivalry, including the
priest clans of the Kumano Sanzan shrines
and the Kumano navy. This exhibition
features historical documents, excavated
items, and surviving remains to explore the
realities of samurai who were active in
Kumano in the Warring States Period and
their castles.
← Letter of enfeoffment
from Hashiba Hidenaga (Wakayama Prefectural
Museum)
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Curated Exhibition: Manago Yusen —Painter
from Tanabe, Kii Province—
Saturday, June 13 to Sunday, July 12, 2020
Born to a powerful village-head family in
Tanabe, Manago Yusen studied Kano-School
painting in Kyoto. This exhibition showcases
the charm of Yusen’s painting by displaying
a huge number of sketches that show the
process of his training as a painter, based
on the results of a two-year joint research
project with researchers from other
institutions.
← Hawk by Manago Yusen, with a legend
written by Gijo, chief priest of Kozan-ji
Temple (from a private collection)
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Curated Summer Exhibition: Hamaguchi Goryo
—Commemorating the 200th Birthday of the
Hero of “The Fire of Rice Sheaves”
2020Saturday,
July 18 to Sunday, August 23, 2020
Hamaguchi Goryo is known to have saved
many people from tsunamis by burning the
piles of rice sheaves as evacuation
guides, and by building the Hiromura
dike. Celebrating the 200th anniversary
of his birth, this exhibition not only
introduces his lifetime achievements but
also explores the history of disasters
in Wakayama Prefecture and “memories of
disasters” of our predecessors.
← Festival at Hiro-Hachiman-jinja Shrine
(Wakayama Prefectural Museum)
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Curated Exhibition: Kitamura Susumu and Tokugawa
Yorisada —People Who Fostered the Nanki Music
Library—
Saturday, August 29 to Sunday, October 4, 2020
Kitamura Susumu was a librarian at the Nanki
Music Library. This exhibition spotlights the
activities of Kitamura Susumu in Tokyo and
Wakayama through letters, literary works and
other materials, including ones related to
Tokugawa Yorisada, Shimazaki Toson, and Tayama
Katai, who had relationships with Kitamura.
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Kitamura Susumu in his later years
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Special Exhibition: National Treasure
Kokawa-dera Engi and the History of
Kokawa-dera Temple —Celebrating the 1,250th
Anniversary of the Temple’s Founding—
Saturday, October 17, 2020 to
Monday, November 23, 2020
The year 2020 marks the 1,250th anniversary
of the founding of Kokawa-dera Temple. This
exhibition features Kokawa-dera Engi (lit.
“Origin of Kokawa-dera Temple”), a
representative Japanese picture scroll and a
National Treasure, and introduces the
religious culture of Kokawa-dera Temple and
surrounding communities, as well as the
reality of a temple estate, to shed new
light on the ancient temple that still
shares the light of Buddhism.
← Kokawa-dera Engi
(from the collection of Kokawa-dera Temple)
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Curated Exhibition: The Beauty of Folding
Screens —Masterpieces from the Wakayama
Prefectural Museum Collection—
2020Saturday,
December 5, 2020 to Sunday, January 24, 2021
Folding
screens, used to divide rooms, are mostly
decorated with paintings, calligraphic
works, or a combination of them. Wakayama
Prefectural Museum boasts a collection of
various folding screens. This exhibition
showcases remarkable Edo-period pieces from
the collection.
← Folding screen depicting the Battle
between the Genji and Heike Clans (Wakayama
Prefectural Museum)
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Curated Exhibition: Mountain of Prayer and
Learning —Treasures from the Koyasan
University Library Collection—
2021Saturday, January 30 to Sunday,
March 7, 2021
With cooperation from the Koyasan
University Library, this exhibition displays
Buddhist books, including scriptures and
commentaries, that monks at Mt. Koya used to
study, and other religious materials such as
documents on the origin of temples, to
spotlight different aspects of Mt. Koya as
both a sanctuary and a place for learning.
← History of Mt. Koya (Wakayama Prefectural
Museum)
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Curated Exhibition: Illustrated Stories from
Kinokuni
2021Saturday, March 13
to Sunday, April 18, 2021
Kinokuni, or Wakayama Prefecture, boasts a
wide variety of beautiful works, including
picture scrolls, that illustrate stories
about the history of temples or shrines, and
other kinds of stories. This exhibition
features a variety of illustrated stories
while focusing on the culture of picture
interpretation in Kinokuni.
← Picture scroll of the Origin of the Kumano
Gongen Deities (Wakayama Prefectural Museum)
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