| Period | June 27, 2024 (Thu) - March 31, 2026 (Tue) |
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| Place | Haneda Airport |
| Organizers | National Center for the Promotion of Cultural Properties (CPCP); Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd.; Tokyo International Air Terminal Corporation |
| Inquiries | 03-5834-2856 (National Center for the Promotion of Cultural Properties) |
High-resolution facsimile of national treasures and important cultural properties in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum will be on display without glass cases at Haneda Airport in order to make overseas visitors to Japan as well as domestic travelers more broadly familiar with cultural properties. Although cultural properties are normally on display for only limited periods and in limited locations, high-resolution facsimile allow them to be viewed in depth and up close.
The theme of the exhibition “Wings of Japanese Art at HANEDA” is “Japan’s four seasons.” The high-resolution facsimiles on display at Haneda Airport will be changed according to the season. A high-resolution facsimile of Autumn Grasses , works depicting “autumn,” will be on display in the 3F International Flight Departure Lobby in Terminal 2. Visitors can enjoy the beauty of Japanese culture and its close connection to the four seasons. In addition, a high-resolution facsimile of Viewing Maple Leaves , will be on display on the 4F “Edo Stage” in Terminal 3 (except when events are being held in the space).
Details and display periods of the high-resolution facsimile
| Location | 3F International Flight Departure Lobby, Terminal 2 |
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| Display period | Wednesday, August 27, to late November (tentative) |
This pair of folding screens features gentle, overlapping, gold slopes tinged with translucent, light-green hues. Plants like pampas grass, chrysanthemums, bush clovers, sunset hibiscuses, confederate roses and yellow patrinias bloom thickly across the slopes. The types of plants suggest the screens are depicting summer through autumn. The painter has predominantly used white, green and yellow tones to lend a refreshing sense of uniformity to the depictions of various flora.The chrysanthemums on the left and right edges are rendered using thick layers of gofun, a white pigment made from mollusc shells. They are more-or-less the same size, so the picture still matches up even when the screen order is reversed. We hope you enjoy the feeling of walking through an endless field of flowers and plants beneath a clear autumn sky.
High-resolution facsimile Autumn Grasses
Original:Important Cultural Property By Tawaraya Sōsetsu Edo period, 17th century Tokyo National Museum
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4F Edo Stage, Terminal 3 *Not on display when events are being held in the space |
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| Display period | Wednesday, August 27, to late November (tentative) |
Viewing Maple Leaves shows revelers taking in the brilliant autumn hues by the Kiyotaki Rive rin Takao, an area in northern Kyoto. The painting depicts scenes of people from the Muromachi period (1392–1573) enjoying the shifting face of nature as autumn gives way to witner. The work centers on monks at the foot of the bridge and also shows women with cihldren admiring the autumn foliage, people playing flutes and chatting as they stroll, and a group of men in a circle dancing. By looking at this work, modern viewers may feel they too want to gaze on the brilliant hues of autumn.
High-resolution facsimile Viewing Maple Leaves
Original:National Treasure By Kanō Hideyori Muromachi–Azuchi-Momoyama period, 16th century Tokyo National Museum
About the high-facsimile reproductions on display
The high-resolution facsimile on display consist of works produced and used as part of the Joint Research Project on the Creation and Utilization of High-Resolution Facsimile of Cultural Properties, a joint research project by the CPCP and Canon Inc., and works donated to the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage by the Tsuzuri Project.
This joint research project aimed at providing more people with opportunities to interact with cultural properties and have deeper cultural experiences has been ongoing since October 2018 and has resulted in the creation of fifteen high-resolution facsimile to date. The reproductions enable viewing experiences that would not be possible with the original cultural properties, such as exhibits without glass cases that allow the works to be viewed in detail up close, as well as outreach programs for educational institutions and experiential exhibits combined with video. The technology of the Tsuzuri Project, a joint project by Canon and the Kyoto Culture Association, is utilized to create the high-resolution facsimile. This project combines Canon’s advanced digital technologies for input, image processing, and output with Kyoto’s traditional craftsmanship to create reproductions virtually identical to the original cultural properties in terms of not only their size but also the artist’s brushwork, the bright colors of natural mineral pigments, and even gold leaf and metal mountings.
The Tsuzuri Project is a social contribution project cosponsored by the Kyoto Culture Association and Canon that aims to preserve original cultural properties and utilize high-resolution facsimile of them. Canon’s advanced digital technologies for input, image processing, and output are combined with Kyoto’s traditional craftsmanship to create high-resolution facsimile of historic Japanese masterpieces such as folding screens, painted sliding screens, and picture scrolls, which are then donated. Cultural properties for the project, which was launched in 2007, are selected annually based on two themes. The first theme is reproductions of Japanese cultural properties that have found their way overseas, which are donated to their previous owners. The second theme is reproductions of cultural properties often featured in elementary and junior high school textbooks, which are used as teaching materials to bring history to life in educational settings.
- Tsuzuri Project
- https://global.canon/ja/tsuzuri/
*The original works are not on permanent display. For details, please refer to the website of the Tokyo National Museum (https://www.tnm.jp/).[https://www.tnm.jp/]