Exhibition

The Fantastic World of Cosplay
Photos by Nicole Bozzao - featuring Cosplayer ‘Queen Fenix’
November 8 - 28, 2025

This month's photo exhibition, titled "The Fantastic World of Cosplay," may be unfamiliar to many, but it is a niche artistic market that is growing rapidly internationally. And Japan is at the forefront of that niche. Photographer Nicole Bozzao is a native of Venice who started out as a fashion photographer, capturing stunning images of mothers-to-be and newborns. Prior to coming to Japan in 2022, she also photographed European cosplayers throughout Italy. The photos on display here are as cross-section of her cosplay work in Japan and Italy. In this exhibition, Bozzao features American actress, model, and cosplayer Queen Fenix. Known as a martial artist living in Japan, Fenix's tall and agile physique, and exotic and expressive cosplay, have earned her popularity in Japan and overseas as well.

Shuri Obayashi: Wind Chimes
An Exhibition of Ink Wash Paintings
Nov. 1 - Nov. 7, 2025

Winds have presence in Shuri Obayashi’s paintings, from which derives the exhibition title "Wind Chimes."  Featuring thirty of her works, this show marks Obayashi’s first solo exhibition in Tokyo.

Obayashi's pursuit of suibokuga began in Kyoto in 2015. At the prodding of her husband, then on sabbatical leave at Kyoto University, she signed up for a workshop led by the master painter Li Geng. She immediately took to the ink wash style where fluidity of water plays a vital role. "It paves way for the particles of sumi to seep deeply into the paper's fibers," she says. "The process infuses poetry of unpredictability and of life."

The traditional art form originated in China during the Tang dynasty with the literati of the era depicting visions of an ideal world. It arrived in Japan in the Kamakura era; Buddhist monks borrowed its techniques to produce zen-ga.

October 2025 Exhibition
Southern Crust
Photos by Kazuaki Ono
October 4 - October 31, 2025

For the month of October, the FCCJ welcomes the exhibition of photographer and baker extraordinaire Kazuaki Ono and his Southern Crust exhibition. For this unique series, Aki has combined his talents as a successful commercial photographer and head baker and owner of AKIPAN, and his great love for Australia, to create an entertaining exhibition featuring various forms of bread highlighted in the diverse nature of the Australian landscape. The exhibition title was inspired by the constellation Southern Cross, which appears in the night sky Down Under.

Exhibition Reception & Talk Show
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 18:30 - 20:30 (Doors open at 18:00)
Fee: Members 1,000yen, Non-members 2,000yen.
To register, please contact front@fccj.or.jp or call 03-3211-3161
Cancellations less than 48 hours in advance will be charged in full.

September 2025 Exhibition
Masaru Akai's World of Floral Art
Photos by Masaru Akai
September 1 - October 3, 2025

For the month of September, the FCCJ welcomes the exhibition of floral artist Masaru Akai and his unique world of flower art and arranging where he masterfully manipulates and talks with flowers. We are confident you will enjoy the original designs and vivid colors from a florist who frequently instructs the wives of ambassadors in Tokyo. Akai's mission is to convey his heart through the medium of flowers, leading him to call his flower arrangement “Soka,” which may be defined as part flower arrangement and part floral design.

Exhibition Reception & PR announcement event by Masaru Akai x MeSEUM® 
Date: Thursday, September 25, 18:30 - 20:30 (Doors open at 18:00)
Fee: Members & Working Media Free. (Invitation: Limited to members and invited guests.)
To register, please contact front@fccj.or.jp 03-3211-3161

August 2025 Exhibition
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the end of WWII
Hiroshima Trilogy
Photos by Hiromi Tsuchida
August 2-30, 2025 

In August 2025, the FCCJ will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an exhibition by Hiromi Tsuchida titled, "Hiroshima Trilogy: People, Landscape, Objects." 
With works displayed in the collections of museums in Japan as well as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Tsuchida has meticulously documented items and monuments for over 6 decades that show how the atomic bombings instantly destroyed everyday life. Each photograph is associated with text that tells a story of life, devastation and recovery.

Reception & Talk Show / Book Signing Session To Commemorate Publication of ‘Hiroshima Collection’
Date: Friday, August 8, 18:30 - 20:30 (Doors open at 18:00)
Fee: Members 1,000 yen, Non-members 2,000 yen (one drink included)

July 2025 Exhibition
The Wonders Of UKIYO-E
June 30 - August 1, 2025

(Japanese translation follows English, 日本語訳は英文の後に続きます。)

June 2025 Exhibition
Bok-koku: The brush is a sword. The ink is its strokes.
Artwork by Hara Kenryo and Bok-koku Artists
May 31 - June 27, 2025

June's exhibition welcomes the amazing world of "Bok-koku" - where ancient art meets a modern interpretation. Bok-koku artists use giant 'fude' brushes and unique ‘Sumi’ ink to paint works of art based on characters that date back 3100 years to the Yin Dynasty.

Mr. Hara Kenryo, who presides over this art collective, says, "These artworks are historical legacies that transcend time and space and serve as keys to explore the essence of human life and the artist's own human nature."

Exhibition Reception / Live Art Performance
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 7:00pm - 9:00pm, doors open 6:30pm

Members (incl. live performance): 1,000 yen, Guests/Non-members: 2,000 yen (includes one drink)
Art performance: Bok-koku artists will perform live at the club. Please join us.
Advance reservations are highly recommended, at the Front Desk, by phone at 03-3211-3161 or front@fccj.or.jp. Cancellations less than 48 hours in advance will be charged in full.

(Japanese translation follows English, 日本語訳は英文の後に続きます。)

April 2025 Exhibition
GAZA: Signal Of Life
Photographer: Amer Nasser
March 31 - April 25, 2025

For the month of April, the FCCJ is proud to present a telling exhibition to support Palestinian filmmaker and photographer Amer Nasser who is currently living a difficult and perilous life in the midst of a serious humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza. As a producer selected to exhibit his work at the Cannes Film Festival and Dubai International Film Festival, Nasser would suffer the loss of his camera and computer in one of the many bombings, the artist’s foremost means of expression. Without backup equipment, he was forced to turn to his only remaining means of recording history - a smartphone - to continue sending out daily videos and photos on social media.

March 2025 Exhibition
Once Upon A Time In Tokyo (1980-2025)
Photographer: Bruce Osborn
March 1 - 28, 2025

In conjunction with his work as a photographer, Bruce has been chair of the FCCJ Exhibition Committee for more than 13 years, up until spring 2024. During that time, however, he has rarely exhibited his own work, apart from the highly-rated Oyako Matsuri (Parent and Child Festival) series which he has championed for over 20 years. In appreciation of his decade’s long, dedicated contribution to the FCCJ, we are proud to present a selection of his works, chosen from a vast array of photographs dating back to his arrival in Japan in 1980.

"In this exhibition, I present a partial record of the people and events that have passed before my lens since arriving in Japan in 1980. What future will these memories lead to, memories that still resonate like an echo? Only time will tell."
Bruce Osborn

Exhibition Reception
Date: Monday, 3 March, 6.30 - 8.30pm (doors open at 6.00pm)
Entry Fee: Members 1,000 yen,  Non-members 2,000 yen (one drink incl)