Past Exhibitions
- God of Scholarship: Medieval Paintings of Tenjin
- February 15, 2022 - March 21, 2022
- Feature Exhibition
Hear Me Roar: Celebrating the Year of the Tiger
- January 2, 2022 - February 13, 2022
- Feature Exhibition: Olympia Meets Japanese Art
- June 5, 2021 - July 4, 2021
- Feature Exhibition on the 50th Anniversary of the Ueno Memorial Foundation for the Study of Buddhist Art
The Newsman's Eye: East Asian Painting and Calligraphy Collected by Ueno Riichi
- February 2, 2021 - March 7, 2021
- Feature Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Conservation Center for Cultural Properties:
The Conservation of Japanese Art
- December 19, 2020 - January 31, 2021
- Sliding Door Paintings from the Yōtoku-in of Daitoku-ji Temple II
- February 26, 2020 - February 26, 2020
- Sliding Door Paintings from the Yōtoku-in of Daitoku-ji Temple I
- January 28, 2020 - February 24, 2020
- Three Friends of Winter: Pine, Bamboo, and Plum in the Arts
- January 2, 2020 - January 26, 2020
- Feature Exhibition in Celebration of ICOM Kyoto 2019
Masterworks of the Kyoto National Museum: Temple and Shrine Treasures
Celebrated Paintings of the Early Kano School
- August 14, 2019 - September 16, 2019
- Animals in Medieval Ink Painting
- July 2, 2019 - August 12, 2019
- Feature Exhibition
Qi Baishi: Master of Modern Chinese Painting
"Insects," "Fish and Shrimp," "Landscapes"
- January 30, 2019 - March 17, 2019
- Zen Figure Painting
- December 18, 2018 - January 27, 2019
- Feature Exhibition: Treasures of Hyakumanben Chion-ji Temple
Part II: The Pure Land
- August 7, 2018 - September 9, 2018
- Ink Painters from the Kantō Region, Part II: The Idiosyncratic Talent of Sesson
- July 10, 2018 - August 5, 2018
- Ink Painters from the Kantō Region I: Shōkei and the Odawara Kano
- June 12, 2018 - July 8, 2018
- Curators to the Ashikaga Shogunate: Sōami and His Circle
- February 20, 2018 - March 18, 2018
- Colorful Birds and Flowers
- January 23, 2018 - February 18, 2018
- Minchō and Other Painters of Tōfuku-ji
- December 19, 2017 - January 21, 2018
- Feature Exhibition: Aquarium at the Kyoto National Museum: What Kind of Fish Can You Find? III. Legendary Sea Life
- July 25, 2017 - September 3, 2017
- The Genius of Kano Motonobu: Wall and Door Paintings from Reiun-in Temple
- June 13, 2017 - July 23, 2017
- Early Kano School Painting
- February 21, 2017 - March 20, 2017
- Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
- January 17, 2017 - February 19, 2017
- 300th Anniversary Feature Exhibition: Itō Jakuchū
- December 13, 2016 - January 15, 2017
- 300th Anniversary Feature Exhibition: Yosa Buson
- August 23, 2016 - October 2, 2016
- Kano School Fan Paintings
- July 20, 2016 - August 21, 2016
- Animals in Medieval Ink Painting
- June 14, 2016 - July 18, 2016
- The Beauty of Medieval Landscape Painting
- February 23, 2016 - March 21, 2016
- The Genius of Kano Motonobu: Wall and Door Paintings from Reiun-in Temple
- January 26, 2016 - February 21, 2016
- Going Ape for the Year of the Monkey Part 3: Mu Qi and Monkeys in Medieval Ink Painting
- December 15, 2015 - January 24, 2016
- Chinsō: Portraits of Zen Priests
- August 11, 2015 - September 13, 2015
- Sesson: Iconoclastic Master
- July 7, 2015 - August 9, 2015
- Painters at Tōfuku-ji: Minchō and Ryōsen
- June 9, 2015 - July 5, 2015
- Early Kano School Painting
- May 12, 2015 - June 7, 2015
- Zen Figure Painting
- April 14, 2015 - May 10, 2015
- Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
- March 17, 2015 - April 12, 2015
- Medieval Fan Paintings
- February 10, 2015 - March 15, 2015
- Animal Imagery in Medieval Ink Paintings
- January 2, 2015 - February 8, 2015
- Elegant Pursuits of the Chinese Literati
- November 18, 2014 - December 23, 2014
- Transcendent Beauty: Colorful Bird-and-Flower Painting
- October 15, 2014 - November 16, 2014
- The Subtle Beauty of Japanese Ink Painting
- September 13, 2014 - October 13, 2014