KIZUNA: Japan | Wales | Design
Rice bowls, designed by Mori Masahiro for Hakusan Porcelain 1992, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
Japanese lacquered coffer with sharkskin and mother-of-pearl Edo period, c. 1620, National Trust (Chirk Castle)
Hyakki Yako (100 Monsters at Night) handscroll, Edo period, 17th century, National Museum of Japanese History
16 June – 9 September 2018
National Museum Cardiff
This summer National Museum Cardiff hosts KIZUNA: Japan | Wales | Design, an exhibition of Japanese objects from the 1600s to the present day.
Celebrating the kizuna - or bonds of friendship - between the two countries, the exhibition will include a large number of items on loan from major national museums in Japan which have never been seen before in the UK: costumes, ceramics, lacquer ware, painted screens and modern and contemporary design objects. These sit alongside objects from around the UK including the first ever Japanese artefact known to have come to Wales: a stunning lacquered coffer that has been at Chirk Castle for 400 years. Since then people from Wales and Japan have continued to exchange their cultures and their expertise, and the relationship between the two countries is very much alive today.
Entry is free. For more information, please see the official website.
