Held once a year, every year, in early winter in Ginza, 2005 witnessed the 12th holding of the "Sesshu International Art Society Exhibition " and it was blessed with fine weather, as it was comparatively warm for the end of November.

This exhibition, held at the Tokyo Central Museum in Ginza over five days from November 29 to December 3, is already established in this neighborhood as a place where calligraphy and oriental painting of various styles can be appreciated in a single venue.

In 2002, the Sesshu International Art Society held its first overseas exhibit , "Exposition de Paris en Commemoration du 500eme anniversaire de la mort de Sesshu ? L'Art des "Kakejiku" de Calligraphie et Dessin" (the Paris Exposition in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Sesshu ? The art of calligraphy and sketching in kakejiku hanging scrolls) at the Galerie Gran Paris in Paris, France, and followed that up in 2004 with the "China-Japan International Contemporary Art Exhibition" at Zhejiang West Lake Gallery in Zhejiang Province, China, in commemoration of the society's 10th anniversary.

These two overseas exhibitions became a major turning point for this society, with the "China-Japan International Contemporary Art Exhibition" an especially major leap as relationships were developed with great masters of the Chinese arts and with the Xiling Seal Engravers’ Society, regarded as the headquarters of the seal-engraving world, and that event has been perpetuated in China since then.