A Taiwanese delegation led by Premier Jiang Yi-huah's wife, Li Shu-chen, has arrived in Japan for the opening of an exhibition of treasures from Taiwan's National Palace Museum (NPM).
The exhibition, called “Treasured Masterpieces from the National Palace Museum, Taipei”, opened at Kyushu National Museum on Monday.
The exhibition will run until November 30 and will display more than 100 works from the National Palace Museum, including calligraphy, paintings, embroidery, ceramics, bronze pieces, and jade objects. Among the works to be showcased is the "Meat-Shaped Stone," one of the museum’s two most popular pieces, which is being exhibited outside Taiwan for the first time.
The other popular piece, the "Jadeite Cabbage with Insects," was displayed at the Tokyo National Museum for two weeks during the three-month exhibition this summer. The museum racked up more than 400,000 visits during the duration of the exhibit.
The Kyushu and Tokyo exhibitions are part of an exchange program between the two Japanese museums and the National Palace Museum, which will also see Japanese treasures exhibited in Taipei.