Takashi Murakami’s Pop-Infused Ode to Japonisme
Takashi Murakami is bringing his ongoing exploration of art history home to Tokyo with the opening of “Japonisme → Cognitive Revolution: Learning From Hiroshige” at his Hiroo-area gallery. Building upon his 2025 run at Gagosian’s New York gallery, it’s a full-circle moment for Murakami’s broader inquiry into how Japanese ukiyo-e impacted the move toward abstraction in Western pictorial traditions.
The artist presents print editions of nearly every painting from the New York show, highlighting his pop-infused interpretations of famed ukiyo-e works. The star of the exhibition is Murakami’s reimagining of Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, which weaves his own characters into iconic scenes like “Suido Bridge and Surugadai.”
Exhibition view of “Magazine House Exhibition”（Photo: Ginza Sony Park）
