Event
Date:July 30–September 11, 2022
The exhibition has two installations:
Part I: July 30–August 21, 2022
Part II: August 23–September 11, 2022
Hours:
9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. (Entrance until 5:00 p.m.)
Closed:Mondays
Admission:
Adult 1,200 yen
Univ. Student 600 yen
High School Student 300 yen
* Please show student I.D. for student admission.
* Admission is free for junior high school students and other youths age 0–15, visitors with disabilities and one caretaker. Please show I.D.
* Admission is reduced by 400 yen for Campus Members (including faculty) able to produce I.D.
https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/exhibitions/special/kawachinagano_2022/
Venue
Kyoto National Museum, Heisei Chishinkan Wing, Galleries 2F, 1F
https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/index.html
Access:527 Chaya-cho, Higashiyama-ku,
Kyoto, Japan 605-0931
Overview
The city of Kawachinagano in southern Osaka prefecture long prospered as a crossroads connecting travelers from Kyoto with roads leading to the sacred Mount Kōya. This area is home to the ancient temples Kanshin-ji and Kongō-ji, centers of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism that reflect the region’s abundant religious and cultural history. During the years of contested imperial rule known as the Nanbokuchō period (1333–1392), the area was also the temporary residence of Emperor Go-Murakami and the Southern Court’s loyalist forces, including the famous warrior Kusunoki Masashige. Between 2016 and 2020, the Kyoto National Museum conducted extensive surveys that inventoried the collections of these two temples. Building on the museum’s findings, this exhibition introduces a wide range of well-known masterpieces as well as newly discovered temple treasures that shed new light on the richly layered history and culture of Kawachinagano.
