Top 17 Exhibitions to See This Weekend: From the Grand Opening of "null²ⁿ" to "Otomo Yoshihide + YCAM New Work Exhibition"

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A roundup of the top 17 exhibitions to see this weekend, including the British Museum Japanese art collection, Daido Moriyama, Yuichi Hirako, and Isamu Wakabayashi.

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This article presents the top 17 exhibitions to see this weekend. The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno is hosting "Masterpieces of the British Museum Japanese Art Collection: A Hundred Flowers Blooming—Edo Paintings Across the Sea" through October 18, marking the museum's 100th anniversary. It features the first return to Japan of Kitagawa Utamaro's painting "Courtesan Reading a Letter," works by Maruyama Okyo and Katsushika Hokusai, and a set of sliding screen paintings reunited for the first time in about 150 years. At the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in Ebisu, "Sensibility Reproduced—Daido Moriyama" is on view, a hybrid exhibition in which students from Nara Women's University's Hase Laboratory select and reconfigure works from the collection, shown both on-site and online. Yuichi Hirako's solo exhibition "HUMAN AND NATURE" is at the Tokyo Midtown Hibiya 6th-floor hall, featuring about 300 works including a mobile up to roughly 3.5 meters long, exploring the relationship between humans, plants, and nature. The Nerima Art Museum presents "Isamu Wakabayashi—Run and Rest—|Mayumi Terada—Absence of Presence," showcasing Wakabayashi's newly acquired sculpture and prints alongside Terada's photographs and stone sculptures in two solo-format presentations.

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