Tokyo Station Gallery is one of the more interesting art venues in the city. Occupying part of the renovated Tokyo Station Building, it combines daring modern design with the building's early 20th-century, red-brick charm.
This also makes it a rather suitable venue for "Hakubakai to Kofukai: Aspects of Japanese Oil Painting," an exhibition that looks at the 100-year history of an art association that was once avant-garde, but is now endearingly traditionalist.
It is hard to tell the story of the Kofukai group, founded in 1912, without including that of a preceding, more informal Hakubakai, named after a brand of unrefined sake popular among artists. The same personalities can be found in both.