英王室、日本ゆかりの品展示へ　来年６月、バッキンガム宮殿で

　【ロンドン時事】英王室の所蔵品を管理するロイヤル・コレクション・トラストは１１日、日本にゆかりのある品々をバッキンガム宮殿で展示すると発表した。期間は２０２０年６月１２日から１１月８日まで。英王室と日本の皇室や江戸幕府の４００年を超える交流の一端が披露される。
　展示では、１７世紀前半に江戸幕府の第２代将軍徳川秀忠からイングランド国王ジェームズ１世に贈られた甲冑（かっちゅう）などが一般公開される。さらに、１７世紀後半の女王メアリー２世が収集したとされる有田焼の色彩豊かな磁器、１９５３年にエリザベス女王の戴冠式に合わせて昭和天皇が贈った化粧箱も展示される予定だ。

　英王室の日本関連の展示はこれが初めて。英王室は個人としては世界最大級の美術品の所蔵で知られている。（2019/11/12-05:24）

An exhibition featuring artifacts related to Japan will be held at the Buckingham Palace in Britain next year, the Royal Collection Trust, which manages the British royal family's expansive art collection, said Monday.
   On display at the exhibition, set to run from June 12 to Nov. 8, 2020, will be items the British royal family accumulated during hundreds of years of its exchange with Japan's Imperial Family and with the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period, which lasted for more than 250 years from 1603 in the Asian nation.
   Featured pieces will include a samurai armor gifted to King James I of England by Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, in the first half of the 17th century, colorful Arita porcelain believed to have been collected by Queen Mary II in the second half of the 17th century and a cosmetics case sent by Japanese Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa, to current Queen Elizabeth II upon her coronation in 1953.
   It will be the first time for Japan-linked items held by the British royal family to go on display. The family is known as one of the largest private art collectors in the world.
   "Japan's Imperial Family and Britain's royal family have built a wonderful relationship over a long time," Japan's Ambassador to Britain Koji Tsuruoka said.