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Japan Cultural Expo VIRTUAL PLATFORM Contents (As of Aug 17, 2021） Japan Cultural Expo VIRTUAL PLATFORM Contents (as of Aug 17, 2021） Room Contents Floor Category Project・Museum Organization No, Type Title Video From Niigata: Jomon to Today Cultural Experience 2020 Video JOMON Impressions｜FROM NIIGATA: JOMON TO TODAY CULTURAL EXPERIENCE FROM NIIGATA: JOMON TO TODAY CULTURAL EXPERIENCE Niigata Prefecture VR The Niigata Prefectural Museum of History Virtual Museum Tour images From Niigata: Jomon to Today Cultural Experience 2020 Niigata Prefectural Museum of History Collection “Flame-style vessel” reproduction of artifact from images Umataka Site stored at Nagaoka Municipal Science Museum Video "Nature Worship in Japan" Special exhibition "Sacred Treasures from Ancient Nara: The Eleven-Headed Kannon of Shōrinji Video Temple" Special exhibition "Sacred Treasures from Ancient Nara: The Eleven-Headed Kannon of Shōrinji Sacred Treasures from Ancient Nara: The Eleven-Headed Kannon of Sh TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM images Temple" exihibition view Art and ōrinji Temple NARA NATIONAL MUSEUM images Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon Bosatsu (Ekadasamukha),Shōrinji Temple S１ Cultural Treasures images Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon Bosatsu (Ekadasamukha),Shōrinji Temple images Clay Objects, Excavated at the Yamanokami Ruins, Sakurai city, Nara prefecture images Wooden Amida Buddha statue at Kozoji Temple images Wooden seated statue of the Zen monk Toryo Eiyo Prince Shōtoku as a Paragon of Filial Piety images Important Cultural Property Japanese Art and Craft Repair: Technique, Materials, and Transmission Kinki Nippon Tourist Corporate Business Co., Ltd. images Stone Lanterns by Itō Jakuchū, left screen Video The Conservation of Japanese Art - Conservation of Paintings on SILK images Death of the Buddha images Ukiyo-e Original Work: The Actor Ōtani Oniji as the Servant Edobei (Important Cultural Property); By Toshūsai images Sharaku; Edo period, 1794 (Kansei 6) images Lacquerware Original Work: images Writing Box with the Eight-Plank Bridge in Maki-e Lacquer and Mother-of-Pearl Inlay (National The Family Gallery "More Japanese Culture Unlocked: Armor, Kimonos, images Kimonos TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM Lacquerware, and Woodblock Printing" Original Work: Kimono Pattern Book, Hiinagata kiku no i (“Chrysanthemum Well of Kimono Designs”) images By Mutō Ryūshi and others images Armor Video An Inside Look at Japanese Armor Original Work: Armor (Gusoku) with a Two-Piece Cuirass and Black Lacing(Important Cultural images Property); Edo period, 17th century, Formerly used by Sakakibara Yasumasa Video Japanese Culture Unlocked: Armor, Kimonos, Lacquerware, and Woodblock Printing [FY2020] VR Virtual Tour - The Mount Fuji Challenges: Hokusai and Hiroshige Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of images Mount Fuji South Wind, Clear Sky, also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji images Art and KATSUSHIKA Hokusai S２ Cultural Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji images Treasures KATSUSHIKA Hokusai Special Exhibition: The Mount Fuji Challenges: Hokusai and Hiroshige Edo-Tokyo Museum Fujimigahara in Owari Province, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji images KATSUSHIKA Hokusai Mannen Bridge, Fukagawa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo images UTAGAWA Hiroshige Suidō Bridge and Surugadai, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo images UTAGAWA Hiroshige Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road images A UTAGAWA Hiroshige images Seikado Bunko Art Museum Meiji Seimei Kan images Important Cultural Property images Exhibition: "Departure in Arts" Installation view of the "Departure in Arts" exhibition images 2021 Seikado Bunko Art Museum Seikado Bunko Art Museum images Tea bowl “Yohen Tenmoku” (called “Inaba Tenmoku”) “Channel Markers” (Miotsukushi) and “The Barrier Gate” (Sekiya) chapters from the Tale of Genji images By Tawaraya Sotatsu images Wakan Roeisho poetry anthology, known as the Ota edition Tachi sword images Signed “Kanenaga” images Selected Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e and Edo-Period Paintings from the Yamatane Collection images ー Video Japan's Four Seasons at the Yamatane Museum of Art Yamatane Museum of Art Yamatane Museum of Art images Tabby Cat By Takeuchi Seihō images Camellia Petals Scattering By Hayami Gyoshū images Autumn Plants and Quails By Sakai Hōitsu images Dancing in the Flames By Hayami Gyoshū images Noh-Costumes with Autumn Designs, Masks and Stories images ー images Cherry Blossom Viewing at Night By Yokoyama Taikan Okura Museum of Art Okura Museum of Art images Equestrian Portraits of Court Nobles images Introduction to the Poetry Anthology Kokinwakashu By Fujiwara Sadazane Art and S３ Cultural images Fugen Bosatsu (Samantabhadra) on an Elphant Treasures Hexagonal Dish with Design of Jurojin, the God of Longevity images Painting by Ogata Korin, dish by Ogata Kenzan images MOA Museum of Art Video Guide to the MOA Museum of Art Exhibition: Fun Quiz on The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaid images ō The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa, from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' images Katsuhika Hokusai Shono, from the series ‘Fifty-three Post-Stations of the Tōkaido’ images MOA Museum of Art MOA Museum of Art Utagawa Hiroshige Video ー Tea-leaf jar with a design of wisteria images Nonomura Ninsei Red and white plum blossoms images Ogata Kōrin images Cosmetic box with a design of a landscape in maki-e images Women of a pubic bathhouse, Yuna Japan International Broadcasting Inc. Video At One with Nature National Parks of Japan Keramashoto (This is a collaborative project with a special joint Nature/Art/ Video At One with Nature National Parks of Japan Towada-Hachimantai N１ Joint-project with the National Parks of Japan: Stories to Experience exhibition "National Parks of Japan: Stories to Yabusame Experience" by the National Museum of Nature and Video At One with Nature National Parks of Japan Akan-Mashu Science and the Ministry of the Environment. ) Video At One with Nature National Parks of Japan Daisen-Oki Japan Cultural Expo VIRTUAL PLATFORM Contents (as of Aug 17, 2021） Room Contents Floor Category Project・Museum Organization No, Type Title VR Online Art Gallery “Kiinseido: Hirakushi Denchu and Works Connecting Tradition with the Future” images Kohei Nawa《White Deer (Meiji Jingu)》2020 Photo:Keizo KIOKU Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art: Celebrate. Pray. Create. – Sustainable Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art Committee images Misa Funai《ParadiseBoundary –SINME-》 2020 Photo:Keizo KIOKU Nature and Arts & Culture – General Incorporated Association Art Powers Japan images Tomokazu Matsuyama《Wheels of Fortune》2020 Photo:Keizo KIOKU images Atsuhiko Misawa《Animal 2012-01B》2019 Photo:Keizo KIOKU VR Online Art Gallery “Shikansuiyo – The Hundred Year Forest and Art” Nature/Art/ N１ Yabusame Praying for World Peace and People's Health, ' Yabusame Video a Japan Cultural Expo Project Presented and Co-presented for year 2020. images Ritual of Tencho-chikyu, wishing for world peace, good harvest and people’s health. images Ite after making hit Yabusame for World Peace and People's Health The Japan Equestrian Archery Association images Ite aiming at a target images Ite aiming at a target Video Yabusame The Art Of Horseback Archery【高画質】 images 2018.03.03.D.#02 2018 images 2017.09.23.#12 2017 TAKANO RYUDAI: DAILY PHOTOGRAPHS 1999-2021 The National Museum of Art, Osaka images Wearing a red leather coat 2002 images 2018.11.14.#05 images 2013.03.02.M.#e08 Video MAT2021 VIRTUAL TOUR Art/ A N２ Media Ambition Tokyo 2021(MAT2021) Media Ambition Tokyo Association Video MAT 2021 Digest Video Media arts images Pamphlet images MAT 2020 Digital Archive Video Short Film "The Old Woman Skin" Video Discover Beauty Symposium Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021 images Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021 poster Pacific Voice Inc. Video Creation of stories all around Japan Project Panel Discussion Video Discover Beauty Symposium + Short Films Online | Discover Beauty images “Humanity and Nature in Japan” Exhibition images Iwami Kagura Program: Orochi National Conference for Japan Cultural Expo Disabled images Konan Dance Company Art Brut CREATION Nippon People’s Arts and Culture Festival Executive Office images Zuiho Taiko images Salsa Gum Tape Art Brut/ Video Barrier free Theater “Helen Keller” N３ Fireworks Video Japan --- a wonderland of vivid fireworks. images Fireworks for Everyone images Fireworks designed by children with disabilities Fireworks for Everyone Japan HANABI Association images Display images Workshop images Collaboration images National Crafts Museum images Studio of Matsuda Gonroku (reconstruction) From Tokyo to Kanazawa. Documentary movie of the relocation of National Museum of Modern Art, Video Tokyo. SUZUKI Chokichi images Twelve Hawks（a part of work), 1893 Japanese Crafts: Materials, Techniques and Regionalities—Grand ITAYA Hazan National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Video Opening Exhibition of National Crafts Museum Vase, Humulus lupulus design, underglaze colors, white porcelain, 1929. TSUISHU Yozei XX images Low table, six-petaled flower design, choshitsu, 1915 IIZUKA Rokansai images Flower basket, "Anko (angler fish)", 1957 Video From the Crafts Artist’s Workplace - Hokuriku Video Tea Ceremony on the Web Video Symposium: Kōgei 2020 - The Art of Crafting Beauty from Nature Special Exhibition: Kōgei 2020 - The Art of Crafting Beauty from Nature Japan Arts Council VR Virtual
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