Joan Miró is a sensation in Japan. As early as 1940, poet Shuzo Takiguchi published the first monograph on the Catalan artist, who was also a lover of Japanese culture. Drawing on this mutual love, the Joan Miró Foundation has chosen Tokyo to organize one of the major exhibitions to commemorate his fiftieth anniversary. Juan Miró. Poetry into Painting, a retrospective that, with nearly a hundred pieces, spans from the beginning of his career to his later works. Since it opened at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the exhibition has been a success, receiving more than 2,000 visitors daily. One of them, this Monday, was the President of the Generalitat (Catalan government), Salvador Illa, who visited the exhibition accompanied by the foundation's director, Marko Daniel, and the Spanish ambassador to Japan, Iñigo de Palacio. on the first day of his official trip to the country.