The French artist Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a member of the Nabis, an avant-garde group of painters from the generation following the Impressionists, and is also known as an art critic who foretold twentieth-century art. Belonging to the generation after the Impressionists, he was influenced by “Japonisme” in his youth, and taught at the Académie Ranson, where Japanese students studying painting in Paris were accepted. In Japan, Denis was introduced in the magazine Shirakaba etc. in the Taisho era, and his works were shown promptly in the 1920s. This exhibition traces the long and harmonious relationship between Denis and Japan mutually yearned from both the East and the West.