DATE:		First half: September 8 to October 21, 2007 Second half: October 23 to December 9, 2007 From 10:00 to 16:30 (last entry: 16:00) Closed on Mondays except September 17 and 24, October 8 and November 12 Closed on September 18 and 25, and October 9
PLACE:		61 Nanzenji Shimokawara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
DIRECTION:		City Bus #5 to Nanzenji Eikando-michi
TEL:		81-75-751-0374
ADMISSION:		General public: 700 yen (groups of 20 or more: 500 yen per person) College and high school students: 300 yen Junior high and elementary school students: 200 yen Seniors over 70 years old: 500 yen
TEXT:		This exhibition features utsuwa tableware that is essential to kaiseki dishes. A collection of bowls, sake bottles and cups used by Tokuan Nomura, the founder of the Nomura zaibatsu and an art collector, will be displayed at the exhibition. *The display will be almost entirely changed for the second half of the exhibition period. An additional exhibition titled “Baccarat Kaiseki Tableware Exhibition” is to be held in the underground exhibition hall from September 8 to October 28. Tojiro Harumi, an Osaka arts dealer, ordered French company Baccarat to make kaiseki tableware during the late Meiji period and Taisho period. Tokuan’s collection of Baccarat kaiseki tableware purchased from Tojiro will be on display, *“Baccarat Kaiseki Tableware Exhibition” will be closed at 16:00 on the last day, October 28. *The underground exhibition hall will be closed on September 11, October 12, and November 22.