Exhibitions

Kokeshi are Japanese wooden dolls, made by hand by specialist craftsmen working in wood, or by creative artists.

This exhibition, celebrating the Jubilee year of the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, is the outcome of the initiative of the Yoseido Gallery in Tokyo and the Tikotin Museum.

he Japanese word "bonsai" (盆栽) is written with two Chinese characters: 'bon' meaning tray, and ‘sai' meaning planting - i.e. ‘planting in a tray'.

The exhibition presents woodblock prints of the Yakusha-e (役者絵) genre - depictions of Kabuki (歌舞伎) actors by the most esteemed artists dealing with this subject.

The collections of the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art include some 500 surimono prints (摺物, surimono: "something printed"), most of them from the collection of the Museum's founder, Felix Tikotin.

Mikio Toki, who was born in 1950, studied graphic design at the University of Design in Tokyo. He learned the art of the kite from the artist Katsuhisa Ota (1902-1989), and he has been making traditional Edo kites since 1970.