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期間限定Ancient Art | Ca. 11,000 BC–7th century AD 至2025-09-28止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-07-18 09:30 - 2025-09-28 17:00
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Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room 1
Japan has some of the earliest pottery in the world, dating back about 13,000 years. It was created by the people of the Jōmon period (ca. 11,000–400 BC). These people built permanent settlements and relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering.
At the height of their culture, they made pottery with richly sculpted forms and figurines with distinctive shapes.
In the Yayoi period (ca. 4th century BC–first half of 3rd century AD), people from Northeast Asia (now China and Korea) immigrated to Japan. They brought knowledge of how to farm rice and make objects with bronze and iron. More food became available and people started making tools, weapons, and ritual objects with metal.
In the Kofun period (ca. second half of 3rd–7th century), regional rulers seized power and resources. They formed an early state and the imperial line became its central authority. These rulers had giant tomb mounds built for themselves, with clay sculptures placed outside and valuable objects buried inside to express the rulers’ authority even after death.
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期間限定Sculpture 至2025-09-28止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-07-18 09:30 - 2025-09-28 17:00
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Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room 11
Japan has three main traditions of sculpture: Buddhist deities, Shinto deities, and portraits of people. Buddhism was introduced to Japan from the Korean Peninsula in the 6th century, together with sculptures of Buddhist deities. These sculptures were made primarily for worship. Making a sculpture was also an “act of spiritual merit” that would help one’s prayers to be answered.
In contrast, Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan. Since ancient times, people believed that Shinto deities dwell in natural features like mountains and rivers, and rarely depicted them as humanlike sculptures. Even when a Shinto shrine had a sculpture for worship, the priests usually kept it hidden from view out of respect.
Some portrait sculptures were also worshipped, as they showed deified monks or samurai. Others were made to remember the dead and pray for their salvation. This gallery features works mainly from the Heian (794–1192) and Kamakura (1192–1333) periods, when many of Japan’s most admired sculptures were created.
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期間限定The Niizawa Senzuka Tombs and Exchange with the Asian Continent 至2026-02-01止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-07-18 09:30 - 2026-02-01 17:00
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Japanese Archaeology and Special Exhibition (Heiseikan) Japanese Archaeology Gallery
Created in the 5th century, burial mound no. 126 is one of approximately 600 that make up the Niizawa Senzuka tumulus cluster located in the Nara Basin. Rectangular in shape and 24 meters in length, excavations revealed that it contained a rich variety of objects from other cultures. These include gold, silver, and gilt-bronze accessories, glass bowls and plates, bronze clothing irons and small mirrors, carved semi-precious stones, and weapons. Among these, the gold and silver crown decorations, jewelry, glass bowls, decorative glass beads, and other objects are equivalent in quality to items excavated from tombs of the Silla Kings in Korea.
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期間限定Paintings of the Modern Period 至2025-09-21止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-07-18 09:30 - 2025-09-21 17:00
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Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 8
In recent years, works from the Getsuei-Kan Collection have been newly placed under the Tokyo National Museum’s care.
The current exhibition features masterpieces from the collection, which mainly comprises of paintings from the 19th century onwards.
The exhibition is divided into two parts: the first part (until August 17) presents works that reflect the elegant style of Shanghai, a city centered on the international economy. Meanwhile, the second part (from August 19) exhibits works by unique artists who have transcended modernization, working both in various parts of China and abroad.
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期間限定Sculptures from India and Gandhara 至2025-12-21止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-07-18 09:30 - 2025-12-21 17:00
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Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 3
This gallery introduces Buddhist and Hindu sculptures from India and Gandhara. Buddhist art flourished in northern India during the Kushan dynasty (1st–3rd century). The production of Buddhist statues began in Gandhara (northwestern Pakistan) and Mathura (northern and central India) around the 1st century, with a particular emphasis on sculptures depicting the life of Gautama Buddha in Gandhara.
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期間限定Tomb Sculpture(Haniwa): Dressed-Up Woman, Found in Isesaki City, Gunma, Kofun period, 6th century, Important Cultural Property 至2025-09-28止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-06-19 09:30 - 2025-09-28 17:00
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Japanese Archaeology and Special Exhibition (Heiseikan) Japanese Archaeology Gallery
Terracotta statues known as haniwa were placed on large burial mounds that were created in great numbers during the Kofun period (ca. 3rd century–ca. 7th century). Most haniwa of women show them from the waist up, making this full-length depiction unusual. This woman appears to be wearing a sleeveless garment with wave-like patterns over a plain, long-sleeved one. Her legs are hidden by a skirt decorated with vertical lines. Women of the preceding Yayoi period (ca. 5th century BC–ca. 3rd century AD) wore clothes similar to one-piece dresses. In the Kofun period, however, garments separated into top and bottom sections as seen here were introduced from China and Korea.
Her outfit is also more elaborate than it first appears: Her hair is made up in a topknot unique to women of the time and is held in place with a comb. She also wears a headband and two large earrings with a cluster of beads above each one, as well as a beaded necklace and bracelets. A knife or something similar is at her hip. Judging from the lavish attire, this haniwa probably depicts a woman of a high social standing who is participating in some kind of elaborate ceremony such as a funerary procession or rite.
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期間限定The Advent of Chinese Civilization 至2025-11-03止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-06-18 09:30 - 2025-11-03 17:00
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Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 4
This section of the gallery traces the development of Chinese civilization through ancient pottery, jade objects, texts, and bronzes. The collection includes Neolithic pottery from the Loess Plateau, a range of stone tools from Northern China, jade objects and oracle-bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600–ca. 1100 BC), and roof tiles from each era.
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期間限定The Rise and Fall of Kings in Korea 至2025-09-21止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-06-18 09:30 - 2025-09-21 17:00
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Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 10
This gallery presents artifacts from Korea’s Three Kingdoms period (57 BC–668 AD), an era when powerful rulers vied for control of the Korean Peninsula. The three kingdoms were comprised of Goguryeo in the north, Baekje in the southwest, and Silla in the southeast. A fourth state, known as the Gaya confederacy, also existed in the south before being annexed by Silla.
Each region made full use of the materials of the time–namely, gold, silver, bronze, iron, glass, and jade–to create distinct ornaments and other objects including, armor, horse tack, clay tiles, and pottery.
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期間限定Khmer Sculpture 至2026-04-19止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-06-18 09:30 - 2026-04-19 17:00
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Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 11
Cambodia’s Angkor period (ca. 9th century–15th century) saw the development of a unique Khmer culture, as epitomized by Angkor Wat, a huge temple complex built from the end of the 11th century to the 12th century during the golden age of the Khmer Empire. This section introduces Khmer sculpture, with a focus on Buddhist and Hindu statues and reliefs from Angkor’s temples. These were acquired in 1944 through an exchange project with the French research institute the French School of the Far East.
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期間限定Development of Figural (Haniwa) Tomb Figurines 至2025-09-28止
查看活動說明與參加條件- 活動日期 2025-05-08 09:30 - 2025-09-28 17:00
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Japanese Archaeology and Special Exhibition (Heiseikan) Japanese Archaeology Gallery
Haniwa are terracotta figurines that were stood up on ancient burial mounds called kofun. Around the 3rd century at the end of the Yayoi period, pedestal-shaped terracotta objects that were placed on burial mounds began to change form. By the time keyhole-shaped burial mounds were first created in the latter half of the 3rd century, these objects had developed into cylindrical and pot-shaped haniwa.
The earliest representational haniwa, which depicted houses, were created in the mid-4th century, followed by those portraying armor, shields, quivers, and parasols, as well as ships and fowl. Despite increasing variety and changes in the way haniwa were positioned on burial mounds, house-shaped ones were always placed in the center, therefore playing a unique and important role. From the mid-5th century, new haniwa in the shapes of various people and animals were also created. These included shrine maidens, horses, warriors, boars, water fowl, and dogs. They were positioned around the perimeters of burial mounds as though depicting stories. These various representational haniwa, which evolved from simple cylindrical ones, are believed to have played important roles in funerary rituals.