Upcoming Events

The largest ever exhibition in the UK dedicated to Mingei! With more than 80 works, including ceramics, woodwork, paper, toys, textiles, photography and film, the exhibition will incorporate unseen pieces from significant private collections in the UK and Japan, along with museum loans and historic footage from the Mingei Film Archive.

Kimono World are coming to the UK for one very special, final performance in Birmingham, UK. Each member specialises in a different aspect of traditional Japanese culture, and leader Emiko brings together the very best performers of Nihon Buyo dance, koto and shamisen music, tea ceremony and even karate.

For the first time in Buxton (Pavilion Gardens), Japan FEST celebrates Japanese culture with Japanese arts and crafts, authentichandmade food, Japanese inspired drinks, performances, activity areas, anime and much more.

Explore Authentic Japanese Beverages and Savour the Taste of Japan in Every Sip. Drink Japan is created to showcase the best of Japanese beverage brands and selected artisan products to London! 'Drink Japan' provides visitors invaluable opportunities to meet artisan producers from the UK, companies that import Japanese products and also Japanese producers bringing new and exclusive products from Japan for the event.

Four Japanese Rock & Pop titans (The Heat + Naomi Suzuki + The Fairlady ZZZZZ + MC Issun Boshi) are coming to shake the walls of Dublin Castle, Camden in a fierce headbanging and heart-pounding showdown for one night only.

Discover Nana Shiomi’s (b. 1956) exquisite woodcut prints – a fusion of Japanese tradition and European influences. Shiomi’s sophisticated woodcut prints combine relief and intaglio methods. They are rooted in the traditional technique of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking, yet also reference European artists.

The exhibition 'Life In Still Life' at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in London features incredibly realistic yet surreal still life compositions by Japanese artist Kana Tsumura who beautifully captures the essence of intimate moments and domestic female narratives.

This year's Ura Matsuri brings an evening of East and South East Asian music, performance, fun and culture to a knees up of a Saturday night at the legendary Hoxton Hall on 19th October! An upturned toybox of live music and joyful performance awaits as “East Meets East” down Hoxton Street & through the doors of London’s oldest surviving music hall!

‘Japan / A Love Story’ celebrates half a century of work by renowned British-American photographer Michael Kenna. His in-depth explorations and imagery of Japan since 1987 stand out as perhaps his most distinguished and well-known works. Sponsored by Nikkei and the Financial Times, the exhibition at Asia House in London features 100 exquisite, hand-crafted gelatin silver prints.

Seikichi is a young tattoo artist and former Ukiyo-e artist of high repute. His longtime wish is to “carve his soul into the skin of a beautiful woman” but he has been unable to find a willing partner. Inspired by a short story by Junichiro Tanizaki and Irezumi tattoos, TATTOOER aims to promote Japanese theatrical culture in the UK.