| 1．Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall |
| The Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall (井上靖記念館, Inoue Yasushi Kinenkan) opened in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1993. Dedicated to author Yasushi Inoue, born in Asahikawa in 1907, the museum displays some five hundred items from its collection of a thousand objects, mostly books. In 2012 the study and reception room from the author's former residence in Setagaya were transferred to the museum.[1][2] |
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| 2．Hongō Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo |
| The Hongō Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo (本郷新記念札幌彫刻美術館, Hongō Shin Kinen Sapporo Chōkoku Bijutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1981. In 1979, Sapporo-born sculptor Hongō Shin (本郷新) (1905–1980), donated to the city his studio and gallery, now converted into the Hongō Shin Memorial House, and many of his works. The following year, construction of a new museum began on land purchased adjacent to the Memorial House. The collection includes some 1,800 sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, and calligraphic works by Hongō Shin, as well as books, tools, and personal items relating to him, and those of other artists collected by him.[1][2][3] |
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| 5．Ken Domon Museum of Photography |
| The Ken Domon Museum of Photography (土門拳記念館, Domon Ken kinenkan) was opened in 1983 in Sakata, Yamagata (Japan), the birthplace of the photographer Ken Domon. On the occasion of becoming the first honorary citizen of Sakata in 1974, Domon donated his entire collection of works to the town. This prompted the decision to build a museum in his honour, and it was the first museum dedicated to photography in Japan. |
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| 6．Mogami Yoshiaki Historical Museum |
| The Mogami Yoshiaki Historical Museum (最上義光歴史館, Mogami Yoshiaki Rekishikan) is a museum in the city of Yamagata in northern Japan just outside the reconstructed Great Eastern Gate of Yamagata Castle. It focuses on the place in history of Mogami Yoshiaki and his role in building the foundations of present-day Yamagata.[1] The museum opened on 1 December 1989[2] in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of modern Yamagata City.[3] Its purpose is to preserve and study, display and make accessible to the public historical items from Yoshiaki's time (1546- 1614) when the Yamagata Domain was the fifth largest feudal domain in Japan. Armory, swords and firearms from the historic battles of the 16th century and later are exhibited, along with art works, old maps of the castle town and official documents connected with the Mogami clan and its history. Among the museum's most prized items exhibited are the large standing screen of the Battle of Hasedo, and Mogami Yoshiaki's helmet and battle command baton. There are also special exhibitions of old and modern swords. The museum has English information on the exhibits available. Admission is free. The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is closed Mondays. |
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| 7．Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum |
| The Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum (山寺芭蕉記念館, Yamadera Bashō Kinenkan) was established in 1989 as part of the cultural building boom in Yamagata, Japan celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the city. About 20 minutes by train (Senzan Line between Yamagata and Sendai) from Yamagata Station, it sits on the south side of the steep river valley facing Yamadera to the north, the historic temple founded in 860,[1] a sightseeing destination.[2] |
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| 8．Mitsuo Aida |
| Mitsuo Aida (相田みつを, Aida Mitsuo, 20 May 1924 – 17 December 1991) was a Japanese poet and calligrapher known as The Poet of Zen.[1] His work was influenced by Zen Buddhism and he is known for his works, Ningen damono (Because I'm Human), Okagesan (Our Debt to Others), and Inochi ippai (Live a Full Live).[2] |
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| 9．Asakura Museum of Sculpture |
| Asakura Museum of Sculpture (台東区立朝倉彫塑館 Taitō kuritsu asakura chōsokan) or Asakura Choso Museum is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan, that showcases the sculptures and life work of Fumio Asakura (1883–1965). It is located in the Yanaka neighborhood of Taitō ward. The museum opened in 1967 after Asakura's death.[1] |
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| 10．Yayoi Kusama Museum |
| The Yayoi Kusama Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the work of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.[1] The museum is located in the Shinjuku Ward, in the western suburbs of Tokyo.[2][3] The five-floor building was designed by the Japanese architecture firm Kume Sekkei.[4] Construction was completed in 2014,[5] and it opened in 2017 with an inaugural exhibition of 600 of Kusama's works.[6] One floor of the museum is dedicated to one of Kusama's infinity room installations, titled Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity.[7] |
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| 11．Kodansha Noma Memorial Museum |
| Kodansha Noma Memorial Museum (講談社野間記念館, Kōdansha noma kinenkan) is located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. Its collection includes fine Japanese art objects. The museum was opened in April 2000, in order to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Japan's largest publishing company, Kodansha Publishing Company. It was the residence of the former Kodansha president Sawako Noma, the grand daughter of its founder, Seiji Noma. One of the museum's exhibits is the Noma Japanese Art Collection, art objects collected by Seiji Noma in the early part of the 20th century. Featured artists include Kawai Gyokudō, Uemura Shōen, Kiyokata Kaburagi, and more. The Noma collection includes works by Yokoyama Taikan and other modern Japanese and Western artists, sculpture and ceramics. There are also 6,000 shikishi (decorated Japanese paper or silk used originally for artistic prose, etc) received directly from the artists. The collection reflects an overview of the trends in the history of modern Japanese art. The Museum also displays the Publication Culture Collection, which presents valuable cultural treasures that have been collected from the Meiji Era to the Heisei Era. |
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| 12．Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum |
| The Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum (小平市平櫛田中彫刻美術館, Kodaira-shi hirakushidenchū chōkoku bijutsukan) is an art museum in the city of Kodaira in western Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the life and work of Japanese master wood sculptor Hirakushi Denchū (1872–1979). The museum preserves the last home and studio of Denchu, where he moved in 1970, and has a purpose-built exhibition annex building housing many of the sculptor's works.[1] |
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| 13．Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum |
| The Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum (長谷川町子美術館, Hasegawa Machiko Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.[1] From 1946 until 1974, Machiko Hasegawa drew the comic strip Sazae-san about an ordinary Japanese family led by a good-natured mother and wife, Sazae. The strip was a huge success and for most of its run appeared daily in the Asahi Shimbun.[1] While entirely original and thoroughly Japanese, Sazae-san's popularity in Japan is comparable to the American strip Peanuts. Hasegawa was also an art collector, and her collection along with additions by her sister Mariko is housed in the museum.[2] |
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| 14．Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall |
| Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall (横山大観記念館, Yokoyama Taikan Kinenkan) is located in the former residence of Nihonga artist Yokoyama Taikan, overlooking Shinobazu Pond in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. It was opened in 1976 and is operated by a foundation directed by his descendants. |
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| 15．Taro Okamoto Museum of Art |
| Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (岡本太郎美術館, Okamoto Tarō Bijutsukan) is an art museum located in Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The Taro Okamoto Museum of Art mainly collects and preserves the works of Taro Okamoto and his parents, Kanoko and Ippei. Work began on the museum's construction in November 1996, completed in July 1999, and opened in October 1999. |
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| 16．Fujiko F. Fujio Museum |
| The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum (藤子・F・不二雄ミュージアム), informally known as the Doraemon Museum, is a children's art museum in the suburbs of Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.[1][2] Fujiko F. Fujio is the pen name of the author, illustrator and creator of Doraemon.[3] 35°36′36″N 139°34′24″E / 35.6100°N 139.5734°E / 35.6100; 139.5734 |
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| 17．Kanazawa Yuwaku Yumeji-kan Museum |
| The Kanazawa Yuwaku Yumeji-kan Museum (Japanese: 金沢湯涌夢二館) is a museum in Yuwaku Hot Spring, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan dedicated to the works of the artist Yumeji Takehisa. |
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| 18．D. T. Suzuki Museum |
| The D. T. Suzuki Museum (鈴木大拙館, Suzuki Daisetsu Kan) opened in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan in 2011. Dedicated to the life, writings, and ideas of Kanazawa-born Buddhist philosopher D. T. Suzuki, the facility, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, includes a contemplative space overlooking the Water Mirror Garden.[1][2] |
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| 19．Muro Saisei Kinenkan Museum |
| The Muro Saisei Kinenkan Museum (Japanese: 室生犀星記念館) is a museum in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The museum is about the Japanese poet Murō Saisei. |
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| 20．Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum |
| The Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum (加藤栄三・東一記念美術館, Katō Eizō, Tōichi Kinen Bijutsukan) is a museum located in Gifu Park in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the works of the brothers Eizō and Tōichi Katō, who were born in the city. It is part of the Gifu City Museum of History. |
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| 21．Tōson Memorial Museum |
| Tōson Memorial Museum (藤村記念館, Tōson Kinenkan) is a museum in Magome-juku, Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan dedicated to the life and works of Shimazaki Tōson. The writer was born in the former Honjin in 1872, but his birthplace and childhood home was mostly destroyed in the conflagration of 1895. Rebuilt to designs by Taniguchi Yoshirō in 1947, the museum opened in 1952. The core of the collection comprises some 5,000 items donated by Shimazaki Tōson's eldest son.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 22．Konosuke Matsushita Museum |
| The Konosuke Matsushita Museum (松下幸之助歴史館, kōnosuke matsushita rekishikan, Konosuke Matsushita History Museum) is a corporate museum operated by Panasonic in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. Until September 2008, the museum was called the Matsushita Electric Industrial History Museum (松下電器歴史館, matsushita denki rekishikan), but it was changed to its current name on October 1, 2008, to coordinate with the renaming of the company to Panasonic. The museum was temporarily closed in October 2017 and reopened in March 2018. It was revived as the Panasonic Museum (パナソニック ミュージアム, panasonikku myūjiamu), with the former history museum renovated into the Hall of Manufacturing Ingenuity (ものづくりイズム館, monozukuri-izumu-kan, craftmanship museum).[1] |
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| 23．Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya |
| Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya (芦屋市谷崎潤一郎記念館, Ashiya-shi Tanizaki Junichirō Kinenkan) opened in Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1988.[1] The museum commemorates the life and works of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.[2] |
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| 24．Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art |
| Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art (神戸市立小磯記念美術館, Kobe Shiritsu Koiso Kinen Bijutsukan) is an art museum that opened on Rokkō Island in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1992.[1] The collection includes some 2,500 works by Koiso Ryōhei, as well as those of artists associated with the yōga painter and the city.[2] |
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| 26．Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum |
| The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum (小泉八雲記念館, Koizumi Yakumo Kinenkan) is a writer's house museum established in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1933. The original museum was modeled on the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar, and its collection was based on 22 manuscripts donated by the Koizumi family through the efforts of his disciples Teizaburo Ochiai and Seiichi Kishi. Another 350 books were donated by the commemorative society. The current facility was renovated into a more traditional Japanese style. The collection now consists of approximately 1,500 items, including Hearn's personal belongings, his books, related books and materials, and items left behind by his wife Setsu. Since 2016, Hearn's great-grandson, Bon Koizumi, has been appointed as director. The museum attracts around 150,000 visitors a year.[1][2][3] |
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| 27．Sesshū Memorial Museum |
| Sesshū Memorial Museum (益田市立雪舟の郷記念館, Masuda Shiritsu Sesshū no Sato Kinenkan) opened in Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, in 1990. Located next to the site of the Daiki-an (大喜庵), said to have been the site of Sesshū's death and burial, the museum stages exhibitions relating to the artist and to the history of Masuda.[2][3] The collection includes one Important Cultural Property, Sesshū's 1479 portrait of Masuda Kanetaka (益田兼堯); two Prefectural Cultural Properties, Yasutomi Family Documents (安富家文書) and Sufu Family Documents (周布家文書); and seven Municipal Cultural Properties, three scrolls with flowers and birds attributed to Sesshū, a pair of landscape byōbu by Unkoku Tōeki (雲谷等益), Daruma, Ikuzanshu, and Seiōgyū by the same painter, sailing boats in an autumn bay and travel through snow-covered mountains by the same artist, lotus and heron by Saitō Tōshitsu (斎藤等室筆), Daruma by Unkoku Tōoku (雲谷等屋), and Yoshida Family Documents (吉田家文書).[4] |
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| 31．Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall |
| Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall (香美市立やなせたかし記念館, Kami Shiritsu Yanase Takashi Kinenkan) is a museum in Kami, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the life and works of Takashi Yanase (February 6, 1919 – October 13, 2013), who was a Japanese writer, poet, illustrator and lyricist. 33°38′52″N 133°47′01″E / 33.6477°N 133.7837°E / 33.6477; 133.7837 |
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| 32．Sakamoto Ryōma Memorial Museum |
| The Sakamoto Ryōma Memorial Museum (高知県立坂本龍馬記念館, Kōchi kenritsu Sakamoto Ryōma kinenkan) opened in the grounds of the former Urado Castle in Katsurahama, Kōchi, Japan on 15 November 1991.[1] The collection includes correspondence and other documents by Sakamoto Ryōma and his contemporaries and there is also a library of over two thousand books relating to the Meiji Restoration.[2] |
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| 33．Ryōma's Birthplace Memorial Museum |
| Ryōma's Birthplace Memorial Museum (高知市立龍馬の生まれたまち記念館, Kōchi Shiritsu Ryōma no Umareta Machi Kinenkan) opened in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan in 2004. It is dedicated to the life and times of Sakamoto Ryōma and to the local area of Kami-machi and Kōchi more generally during the Bakumatsu period.[1][2][3] |
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