A special exhibition commemorating 400 years, “The Kan'ei Imperial Visit and the Cultural Figures of the City of Flowers,” is being held at Sen-oku Hakuko Kan in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. The exhibition focuses on items from the Kan'ei period, including the Screen Depicting the Imperial Visit to Nijō Castle, as well as items associated with Tokugawa Masako (和子), who married Emperor Go-Mizunoo (後水尾天皇). It runs through 18 October.
In the year marking 400 years since the Kan'ei Imperial Visit, when the Tokugawa shogunate hosted Emperor Go-Mizunoo (後水尾天皇) at Nijō Castle, a special exhibition is being held at Sen-oku Hakuko Kan in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. The exhibition is jointly hosted by Kyoto Shimbun and others, and runs through 18 October this season.
Exhibits include the “Screen Depicting the Imperial Visit to Nijō Castle,” a record of the Kan'ei Imperial Visit, which is designated as a city cultural property, as well as items associated with Tokugawa Masako (徳川 和子), the daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada (徳川秀忠) who married Emperor Go-Mizunoo (後水尾天皇), also known as Tōfukumon-in.
The exhibition also focuses on Kan'ei culture, introducing cultural figures of the Kan'ei period and the cultural landscape of the era.