Exhibition Theme
The Japanese View of Nature
Exhibition Overview
Visitors will experience Japan's diverse natural environments through an immersive theater exhibition. The exhibition will also present the wisdom and techniques that people have incorporated into daily life through their relationships with nature, as well as displays of Japanese culture, including ikebana by the heads of various schools and bonsai from the collection of the Imperial Household Agency.
In addition, the exhibition will invite visitors to become aware of and reflect on recent global environmental issues and changes in the natural environment close to home. It will also introduce Japanese technologies and initiatives that contribute to solving these challenges, including actual equipment and outdoor exhibits.
Japanese Cultural Exhibitions
(1) Ikebana Exhibition
For the ikebana exhibition, heads and other leading figures of major Japanese ikebana schools belonging to the Japan Ikebana Art Association are scheduled to display works in six different flower arrangement styles, one style at a time for each exhibition period. The exhibition is planned as a spatial presentation that expresses the Japanese view of nature and sense of beauty.
Planned cooperating ikebana schools:
Sogetsu School, Ikenobo, Ryusei-ha, Ohara School, and others
(2) Bonsai Exhibition
For the bonsai exhibition, bonsai that have been managed and passed down by the Imperial Household Agency over many years at the Omichi Garden of the Imperial Palace are scheduled to be displayed, with the exhibits changed twice during the exhibition period.
Age: 390 years
A bonsai of high historical value that was also exhibited at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
Age: 340 years
This bonsai was displayed at the Imperial Palace for the Coming-of-Age Ceremony of His Imperial Highness Prince Hisahito. This will be its first public exhibition outside the Imperial Palace.
Age: 390 years
This bonsai is displayed when state guests from overseas visit the Imperial Palace. This will be its first public exhibition outside the Imperial Palace.