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Hidden Japan

This exhibition introduces 85 black-and-white photographs selected from “Hidden Japan– Shizen ni Hisomu Nihon,” a collection of photographs taken throughout Japan by Kijuro Yahagi. The photographer has explained his work in this way: “In gazing at the nature of Japan as it is, the present state of the country emerges through my photographs.”

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November 17-December 27, 2011
National Art Gallery (Islamabad,Pakistan)

July 22 - August 14, 2011
Gallery Sixty Five (Yangon,Myanmar)

May 1- 31, 2011
The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)

March 5 - 25, 2011
The Act Art & Design Gallery (Shenzhen,China)

January 20 - February 10, 2011
Sanxia Museum (Chong Qing,China)

December 16 - December 25, 2010
Shenyang Library(Shenyang,China)

December 2 - 15, 2010
Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Shenyang,China)

November 10 - 21, 2010
Hefei-Kurume Friendship Art Gallery (Hefei,China)

Septemberr 15 - October 7, 2010
Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University (Beijing,China)

August 5 - September 5, 2010
The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

June 2 - 8, 2010
National Art Gallery (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

February 11 - March 21, 2010
Oslo City Museum (Oslo, Norway)

August 20 - September 20, 2009
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Gallery "Khlibnya" (Kiev, Ukraine)

June 19 - July 25, 2009
Vitebsk Regional Studies Museum (Vitsyebsk, Belarus)

May 16 - June 16, 2009
National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk, Belarus)

April 9 - May 5, 2009
Tashkent House of photography, Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

February 12 - 26, 2009
National Museum and Art Gallery (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)

October 27 - November 5, 2008
Public Information & Cultural Center in Consulate General of Japan in Jeju (Jeju, Korea)

October 1 - 12, 2008
Haeundae Cultural Center (Busan Metropolitan City, Korea)

June 29 - July 11, 2008
Youth Cultural House in Ho Chi Minh City (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

May 16 - 25, 2008
Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (Hanoi, Vietnam)

March 5 - 19, 2008
EMBASSY HALL, EMBASSY OF JAPAN IN NEPAL (Kathmandu, Nepal)

January 9 - 31, 2008
Art Musuem, Chiang Mai University (Chiang Mai, Thailand)

November 29 - December 21, 2007
Siam Society (Bangkok, Thailand)

September 27 - October 16, 2007
Bastion de Crmen Theater (Colonia, Uruguay)

August 13 - 24, 2007
City Hall of Montevideo (Montevideo, Uruguay)

April 25 - May 31, 2007
Faculty of Plastic Arts, University of Veracruz (Xalapa, Mexico)



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