The Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu Art Museum (串本応挙芦雪館, Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu Kan) is an art museum in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The museum opened on the grounds of Muryō-ji [ja] in 1961 and comprises five exhibition rooms in two single-story reinforced concrete buildings.[1] The collection includes a series of fifty-five painted panels by Maruyama Ōkyo and Nagasawa Rosetsu (among them, the Dragon and Tiger Fusuma[2]) that have been designated an Important Cultural Property;[1][3] ninety-six paintings and calligraphic works by artists including Kanō Sansetsu, Kanō Tan'yū, Hakuin Ekaku, Itō Jakuchū, and Mu'an, passed down as temple treasures of Muryō-ji;[1] more recent paintings and sculptures, including works by Kumagai Morikazu [ja] and Matsumura Sotojirō [ja];[1] and 1,584 archaeological artefacts from the Kasashima Site (笠嶋遺跡) that include Jōmon and Yayoi ceramics.[1][4] | ||||||
Location: Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture | ||||||
Opened: November 1961[1] | ||||||