Exhibition

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Next exhibition will be opened on November 22.

Kobayashi Tokusaburo: A Retrospective

Saturday, November 22, 2025 - Sunday, January 18, 2026

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Kobayashi Tokusaburo (1884–1949) is a painter who was active from the Taisho era to the 1940s. After graduating from Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (Tokyo Fine Arts School), he played an active role at Fyuzan-kai (Fusain Society), which attracted attention for the pioneering pictorial expressions demonstrated by its young members. From 1923, Tokusaburo continued presenting his works mainly at Shunyo-kai. He painted numerous pictures of fish such as sardines and horse mackerels, which left a striking impression on the people around him. This is the first major retrospective of Kobayashi Tokusaburo, and his artistic achievements will be traced through approximately three hundred works and archive materials. In this exhibition, we shall also uncover Tokusaburo’s contribution to stage art and publications. We hope this will lead to reappreciation of Kobayashi Tokusaburo, who was acknowledged by photographers, yōga (Western-style painting) artists, scholars of literature, theater professionals, art critics, and others in those days.