The Japan Foundation brought its travelling exhibition “ Yokai Parade: Supernatural Monsters from Japan ,” showcasing scrolls and other historical artifacts, paintings and woodblock prints at the Lahore Arts Council, Alhamra from September 23 to October 3, 2024. It was organised by the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of Japan in collaboration with the Lahore Arts Foundation Trust and the Lahore Arts Council. Celebrated artist Sabah Husain, Director of Lahore Arts Foundation Trust, served as the venue curator for the exhibition.
The ten-day exhibition is part of a long-term tour of the world spanning a period of about five years, starting from the Institute of Japanese Culture in Rome in 2021. This spectacle of tangible and intangible cultural heritage curated by Yumoto Koichi (Director Emeritus of the Yumoto Koichi Memorial, Japan Yokai Museum), features 84 Yokai artworks and invites the viewers to venture into the world of Japanese mystery and mythology. The exhibition was inaugurated by Japan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Mr.
Wada Mitsuhiro, alongside Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Culture, Shazia Rizwan, in the presence of other art and culture enthusiasts. Inaugurating the exhibition, Ambassador Wada expressed his great joy to bring the mythical aspects of Japanese culture in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan. Sharing the spiritual world of Japan through the exhibition of Yokai, he said: “In Pakistan, when people think of Japan, they often imagine a.