Featured Events in Tokyo in September, 2024 (June Updated)

The diverse forms and ecology of alpine plants that adorn the mountains in summer, as well as their connections with other living things, are introduced through numerous specimens and other materials, along with scientific knowledge. The museum also explains the current critical situation of alpine plants and conservation efforts. Learn about the diversity of alpine plants and experience their charm through powerful images and a immersive exhibition hall.

Toshio Iwai is the author of the famous picture book "100 Doors House" and one of Japan's top media artists. Iwai developed a passion for animation at a young age and established his own unique media art form through the "Time Layers" series, which uses modern technology to evolve flip comics and surprise discs. This exhibition connects Iwai's media art to the 19th century video equipment that is its origin, highlighting the intriguing visual experiences created by light and motion and the insatiable curiosity of the scientists and artists who created them.

The culture of the Edo period can be described as a culture of collection. Animals, plants, textile patterns, inro patterns, monograms, etc., all became objects of collection, and lists and encyclopedias were compiled. There are also books that quote content from ancient and modern times, both inside and outside the country, and are accompanied by explanatory texts and illustrations. These are collectively called "atlas" in Japan. This special exhibition focuses on the bird atlas "Bird Atlas" of the Edo period, introducing the colorful collection culture to everyone.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the painter Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924), this exhibition brings together paintings by painters who accepted Western painting in modern Japan. They not only wanted to paint, but also to establish the ideological basis of "art" in society. The exhibition introduces the "adventure" process of these pioneers and also displays materials collected by the Tokyo Cultural Properties Research Institute (formerly Japan's first art research institute established in 1930).

The Gourmet & Dining Style Show 2024 is set to take place in the bustling city of Koto, at the renowned Tokyo Big Sight venue. This highly anticipated event will run from September 4th to September 6th, 2024, and promises to be a culinary extravaganza like no other. Food enthusiasts and industry professionals alike will have the opportunity to experience the latest trends and innovations in gourmet dining. With a focus on style and sophistication, the show will feature an array of exhibitors showcasing their finest creations. Attendees can expect to be wowed by the exquisite flavors and impeccable presentation on display. The Gourmet & Dining Style Show 2024 is not to be missed for those with a discerning palate and an appreciation for the art of fine dining.

This year's PUROHALLOWEEN is full of magic! ? The characters who became magicians created a lot of special magic! Everyone became a magician's apprentice, and in PUROHALLOWEEN, full of magic and new sensory experiences, let's have fun with the characters♪

The exhibition "A Feast for the Eyes: The Essence of Teaware from the Old Collection of Daimyo and Seikado"selects and exhibits elegant teaware from the collection of feudal lords, including the famous Tang teaware (Chinese tea cans) "Fuzao Eggplant" and "Matsumoto Eggplant" that circulated in the hands of Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu and other rulers of the world during the Warring States Period. Visitors can feast their eyes on the famous teaware from Seikado gathered together.

For beer lovers, the long-awaited "Belgian Beer Weekend Roppongi 2024" event will be held at Roppongi Hills Arena Tokyo from 12 to 16 September 2024. During these 5 days, beer lovers will have a special time that will allow them to fully enjoy Belgian beer culture. Belgian Beer Weekend 2024 will bring together 71 Belgian beers from 14 different beer types. This is a great opportunity to experience the rich and diverse styles of Belgian beer. We have beers of all flavors, from bitter IPAs to fruity, aromatic Lambic beers and dark ales. At this event, you can not only enjoy the characteristics and taste of each beer, but also experience Belgian beer culture itself. This event is more than just beer. Another attraction is the live performances that decorate the venue. For three days starting from Friday, September 13, Reuben Block, the lead singer of the Belgian pop-rock band "Triggerfinger (Triggerfinger)", will take to the stage for an energetic live performance. In addition, three domestic bands will perform on the weekends, further increasing the enthusiasm of the venue. With a beer in hand, you can have a luxurious time and enjoy live music.

The third edition of Moon Art Night Shimokita in 2024 will span across multiple nearby venues, including the basement of Setagaya Ora Station, the open space in front of Shimokitazawa Station's east exit, the rooftop of Tohokusawa Station, and the Bonus Track complex. Exhibits include an outdoor moon installation by British artist Luke Jerram, whose giant floating model features striking details of the lunar surface captured by NASA. This special installation, called "The Museum of the Moon," will be on display daily in an open space at the Shimokita Senrogai complex. The festival will also again feature Tasmanian artist Amanda Parer this year, whose glowing white rabbit inflatable will be installed in an open space near Shimokitazawa's shopping street. Rabbits are not native to Australia; they have wreaked havoc on the island's ecosystem since being imported by European colonists in the 18th century. Here, Parer uses them as a metaphor in her art to represent the "elephant in the room" in relation to the growing environmental crisis. New this year, Sydney design studio Atelier Sisu will present a colorful installation called "Elysian Arcs" that evokes lunar rainbows (rainbows created by moonlight). Giant inflatable arches will be on display at the Bonus Track complex. The exhibition will be held at multiple venues around Shimokitazawa Station. The following are the specific venues: Gallery HANA Shimokitazawa Shimokitazawa Arts Such As, Gallery DDD ART BONUS TRACK MUSTARD™HOTEL SHIMOKITAZAWA SHIMOKITA COLLEGE

Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa is a popular urban aquarium in Tokyo, located near Shinagawa Station. The aquarium is home to approximately 18,000 marine creatures from 450 different species. The aquarium hosts seasonal events throughout the year, themed after each season, such as cherry blossoms in the spring, fireworks in the summer, and Christmas in the winter. In collaboration with creative company NAKED, inc., Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa will host its first fall-themed event, "NAKED MOMIJI AQUARIUM," from September 13 to November 17, 2024. Themed “Autumn Leaves Viewing,” the event will feature a variety of content throughout the venue, including stunning digital art by NAKED, INC., fused with marine life to paint the underwater world red. The aquarium’s famous dolphin show will also be part of the Autumn Edition, with different shows during the day and at night. The daytime edition will feature dancing dolphins, themed after the harvest festival in autumn, while the nighttime edition will feature a beautiful show set to the melodies of autumn leaf art and Japanese instruments using digital technology and projection mapping.

The exhibition will trace the flow of Maitreya, the "Future Buddha" that originated from the two great Buddhas of the East and the West, built in the caves of the Bamiyan ruins in Central Asia, with masterpieces such as sculptures from Gandhara in India and ancient temples in Nara such as Horyuji in Japan, as well as Buddhist statues and paintings handed down from various places. In addition, this exhibition will release for the first time replicas of the Great Buddha murals destroyed by the Islamic fundamentalist organization Taliban in 2001, which were drawn from sketches and photographs during the investigation.

The "sky" we see every day. In today's world, it seems to be a matter of course that everyone can draw a common image. However, in Japanese art, it was not until the early modern period that people realized the realistic depiction of the "sky". In barrier painting, the golden background and golden clouds occupied this space, while in ink painting, they were sometimes positioned as the edge. Originally, the "sky" (sora) was an ambiguous place, neither "heaven", that is, the world of God, nor "earth", that is, the place where humans live. In the early modern period, under the influence of Western painting, the blue sky began to spread to Western-style paintings, mud paintings, ukiyo-e prints, etc. In particular, the fact that Shiba Eikan (1747-1818), a painter who often painted blue skies in the Edo period, learned heliocentrism from Dutch studies and had a scientific understanding of space, is instructive for thinking about the changes in the consciousness of the sky. On the other hand, the expression was sometimes formal and conceptual, such as the typical expression of the sky in ukiyo-e, "the blur of a letter". Since the Meiji era, with the introduction of mature Western painting education and scientific weather observation, painters who tried to capture the ever-changing clouds and sunlight have emerged. However, in the next generation, under the influence of new trends such as expressionism and surrealism, painters who depicted diverse and unique "sky" will follow, as if they were injecting their own mental images into this space. At first, our perspective was usually directed to the ground, and the "sky" rarely played a leading role in paintings. When an earthquake or war occurred on the ground and human activities were destroyed, the sky scattered over the ruins or the sky you looked up at the battlefield suddenly became heavy. The large space that you were not aware of appeared in front of you, illustrating the uncertainty of cognition. In modern times, by putting the once subordinate "sky" at the center, some artists have found a way to live. You can see it, but you can't see it. Through these changes in the sky's expression, this exhibition aims to highlight the fluctuations reflected in our consciousness.

Projection mapping events are extremely popular in Japan, with digital art groups such as TeamLab and Naked hosting popular limited-time and permanent exhibitions across the country. A special event brings the beauty of projection mapping to the Gaienmae area, centered around the Jingu Stadium and the Meiji Memorial Art Gallery. In 2024, a special opening performance featuring music from Izure Ayame Ka Kakitsubata, Nijisanji's ChroNoiR, and ROF-MAO will be held. With the Shotoku Memorial Art Gallery in Meiji Jingu Gaien, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, as its backdrop, this grand projection mapping show will present a unique light display that blends cutting-edge culture and tradition with the music of Nijizanji Temple. At the Meiji Jingu Gaien Seikado Memorial Art Gallery, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, an exclusive light show that blends cutting-edge culture and tradition will be staged, using the music of Nijizanji Temple as part of a large-scale projection mapping display. This unique sight can only be experienced here.

The Heian-period Kokin Wakashū Poetry Anthology (compiled in 905) contains far more poems related to spring and autumn than to summer and winter. As that difference demonstrates, spring and autumn have long been favorite seasons in Japan. This bias in favor of spring and autumn can also be seen in art, notably in the number of works that depict cherry blossoms and autumn foliage in those seasons. While this tradition was carried on, in Edo-period art, the combination of summer and autumn, instead of spring and autumn, is also striking. That change doubtless reflects a fondness for the charms of summer. Depicting vigorous summer and waning autumn as a sequence, and thus being able to define clearly the change in the seasons, also contributed to that shift in seasonal pairings. The highlights of this exhibition are masterpieces by Suzuki Kiitsu, the Edo Rimpa School prodigy, and the studio of the Rimpa School founder Tawaraya Sōtatsu. Through this exhibition, we hope you will enjoy the shifting moods of the seasons, from early summer to late fall, while exploring various aspects of the aesthetic sensibilities they express.

Japan International Sampe Symposium & Exhibition will take place in Tokyo, Japan for a period of three days Japan International Sampe Symposium & Exhibition will take place in Tokyo, Japan for a period of three days. The main objective of this international exhibition has undergone dramatic changes and developments with the advent of new materials. With regard to advanced materials such as composite materials, a new industrial revolution using these materials has begun, mainly in Europe and the United States, due to the improvement of the usage environment. The world has finally reached an era in which advanced materials should be used as general industrial materials. Information Source: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd | expotobi

MAM Project 032 marks the first chapter of Syrian-French artist Bady Darul's (b. 1986, Paris) traveling exhibition series Land of Dreams, which will be displayed in several international venues over the next few years. Darul has become known for his work that interweaves historical events, themes of global migration, and his own Arab roots with fiction. Having imagined and created stories about fictional countries with his brother as a child, Darul initially produced works using books as his primary medium, but in recent years has expanded his practice to include assemblage, collage, and video. This exhibition recreates the size of Darul's apartment, which he first visited in 2014, and brings together works created over the past decade in that space, highlighting the central themes of encounter and migration in his work. Darul has often combined his own life story and thoughts with the personal histories of others, such as Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who died in the Hiroshima atomic bombing, and Syrian immigrants living and working in Japan today. His work is politically charged, as it depicts universal human issues that transcend borders, identities and geographical constraints, in a sharp, sometimes humorous, and multifaceted way. Land of Dreams travels backwards through the 16th century expansion of European colonialism by traveling from East Asia to the Middle East and then to Western Europe. Starting from the first European arrival of the Portuguese in Japan in 1543, the exhibition connects the various histories of these three regions and explores the route across the Middle East in response to the personal story of Darul, the son of Syrian immigrants who moved to France. Land of Dreams is a joint project conceived by the Mori Art Museum, the Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai) and the Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre (Lisbon).

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