UK royals’ Japanese artefacts to go on display at Buckingham Palace

Exhibition will include items amounting to ‘one of finest’ holdings of Japanese art in the west

Japanese treasures acquired by the royal family over almost four centuries are to go on public display for the first time next year in an exhibition at Buckingham Palace.

The artefacts included rare examples of “unparalleled Japanese craftsmanship”, including armour, weaponry, porcelain, lacquer, woodcut prints, delicate fans and embroidered screens, said the Royal Collection Trust.

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