| 1．Abashiri City Museum of Art |
| Abashiri City Museum of Art (網走市立美術館, Abashiri Shiritsu Bijutsukan) is a registered museum that opened in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1972, as the second art museum, and the first such to be purpose-built, on the island. The collection relates to artists of the Okhotsk region and temporary exhibitions are also held.[1][2] |
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| 2．Otaru Art Base |
| Otaru Art Base (小樽芸術村, Otaru Geijutsu Mura) is a cluster of five historic buildings repurposed to serve as art museums in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. Established in 2016 and managed by The Nitori Culture Foundation, the complex comprises the Stained Glass Museum (in the Former Takahashi Warehouse (1923) and Former Arata Trading Company building (1935)), the Former Mitsui Bank Otaru Branch (1927), the Nitori Museum of Art (in the Former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Otaru Branch (1923)), and the House of Western Art (the Former Naniwa Warehouse (1925)).[2][3] The collection includes stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany and paintings by Tani Bunchō, Kuroda Seiki, Okada Saburōsuke, and Murakami Kagaku.[3][4] |
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| 3．Tomakomai City Museum |
| Tomakomai City Museum (苫小牧市美術博物館, Tomakomai-shi Bijutsu-Hakubutsukan) opened in Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1985. The museum reopened after renewal work in 2013. The collection and display documents the natural and cultural history of the city and the area, and includes specimens collected by local resident Orii Hyōjirō as well as materials relating to the Ainu and the time of the Hokkaidō Development Commission.[2][3] |
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| 4．Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture |
| Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in Honor of Teijiro Nakahara (中原悌二郎記念旭川市彫刻美術館, Nakahara Teijirō Kinen Asahikawashi Chōkoku Bijutsukan) is a sculpture museum in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. The building was called the Asahikawa Kaikōsha (旭川偕行社) and used as the officer's social club by the 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1902 until 1945. In 1968, it became the Asahikawa Museum of Local History (旭川市立旭川郷土博物館, Asahikawashiritsu Asahikawa Kyōdo Hakubutsukan). The building is designated an Important Cultural Property.[1] |
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| 5．Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art |
| Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art (北海道立帯広美術館, Hokkaidō-ritsu Obihiro Bijutsukan) opened in Midorigaoka Park, Obihiro, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991 as the fifth annex of Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art. The collection focuses on works by artists from eastern Hokkaidō as well as those of the Barbizon school.[1][2] |
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| 6．Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido |
| Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido (北海道立函館美術館, Hokkaidō-ritsu Hakodate Bikutsukan) opened in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1986. The collection focuses on works from southern Hokkaidō, including paintings by Kakizaki Hakyō and calligraphy by Kaneko Ōtei (金子鴎亭), and special exhibitions are also mounted.[1] |
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| 7．Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art |
| The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (北海道立近代美術館, Hokkaidō-ritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1977. The collection includes works by Jules Pascin and the École de Paris as well as by modern Japanese artists, in particular those with a connection to Hokkaidō.[1][2] There are five related prefectural art museums elsewhere in Sapporo and Hokkaidō: Migishi Kōtarō Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, and Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido.[1] |
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| 8．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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| 25．Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki |
| The Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki (茨城県天心記念五浦美術館, Ibaraki-ken Tenshin Kinen Izura Bijutsukan) opened in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan in 1997. It has a memorial room dedicated to Okakura Tenshin and his works and displays other items of Japanese art, especially by the artists of the Izura coast.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 26．The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki |
| The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (茨城県近代美術館, Ibaraki-ken kindai bijutsukan) opened on the shore of Lake Senba (千波湖) in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in October 1988. The collection, numbering some 3,700 pieces as of October 2015, includes works by Manet, Monet, and Renoir, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Carrière, Camille Pissarro und Alfred Sisley as well as Yōga and Nihonga by artists including Tsuguharu Foujita, Heihachirō Fukuda, Taikan Yokoyama, Yukihiko Yasuda, Tetsugoro Yorozu, Kanzan Shimomura, Kenzo Okada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kiyokata Kaburagi, Kokei Kobayashi, Gyoshū Hayami, Hishida Shunsō, and Shikō Imamura.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 27．Kasama Nichidō Museum of Art |
| Kasama Nichidō Museum of Art (笠間日動美術館, Kasama Nichidō Bijutsukan) opened in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in 1972. It was established to celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Galerie Nichidō (日動画廊), the first commercial art gallery in Japan specialising in yōga or Western-style painting.[1][2][3] |
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| 28．The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (東京芸術大学大学美術館, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku Daigaku Bijutsukan) opened in Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999, replacing the University's former Art Museum.[1] The collection, numbering some thirty thousand works of art,[2] includes twenty-three National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties,[2] among them a Nara period scroll of the Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect and paintings by Asai Chū, Harada Naojirō, Hashimoto Gahō, Kanō Hōgai, Ogata Kōrin, Takahashi Yuichi, and Uemura Shōen.[3][4] |
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| 29．Art Tower Mito |
| Art Tower Mito (水戸芸術館, Mito Geijutsukan) is an arts complex in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It opened in 1990 as part of the centennial celebrations of the municipality of Mito.[1] There is a concert hall that seats 680, a theater for up to 636, a contemporary art gallery, and a landmark tower. Arata Isozaki was the architect, with acoustical design by Nagata Acoustics.[2][3][4] The design is based on the Boerdijk–Coxeter helix. |
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| 40．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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| 41．Snoopy Museum Tokyo |
| The Snoopy Museum Tokyo (スヌーピーミュージアム東京) is a temporary museum in the city of Machida, Tokyo about Snoopy. |
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| 42．Tokyo Fuji Art Museum |
| Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (東京富士美術館, Tōkyō Fuji Bijutsukan) was established by Daisaku Ikeda and opened near the Sōka University campus in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan, in 1983. The new wing was added in 2008. The collection of some thirty thousand works spans the arts and cultures of Japan, Asia, and Europe, and the Museum takes touring exhibitions to other countries.[1][2][3][4] The Fuji Art Museum is owned by the Sôka Gakkai sect, and its collection was bought using the billions of dollars donated by its worshipers. |
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| 43．Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts |
| The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (町田市立国際版画美術館, Machida Shiritsu Kokusai Hanga Bijutsukan) is a museum in Haramachida, Machida City, Tokyo, Japan. |
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| 44．Ghibli Museum |
| The Ghibli Museum (三鷹の森ジブリ美術館, Mitaka no Mori Jiburi Bijutsukan, Mitaka Forest Ghibli Museum) is a museum showcasing the work of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli. It is located in Inokashira Park in Mitaka, a western city of Tokyo, Japan. The museum combines features of a children's museum, technology museum, and a fine arts museum, and is dedicated to the art and technique of animation. Features include a replica of the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro (1988), a café, bookstore, rooftop garden, and a theater for exclusive short films by Studio Ghibli. |
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| 45．NTT InterCommunication Center |
| NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) is a media art gallery in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It was established by NTT to commemorate the 100th anniversary of telephone service in Japan and opened in 1997. In addition to permanent and temporary exhibitions featuring international and Japanese artists, ICC holds workshops, performances, symposia, and produces publications with the goal of advancing communication between artists and scientists. |
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| 46．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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| 47．Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery |
| Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (聖徳記念絵画館, Seitoku Kinen Kaigakan) is a gallery commemorating the "imperial virtues" of Japan's Meiji Emperor, installed on his funeral site in the Gaien or outer precinct of Meiji Shrine in Tōkyō. The gallery is one of the earliest museum buildings in Japan and itself an Important Cultural Property. |
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| 48．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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| 49．Ueno Royal Museum |
| The Ueno Royal Museum (上野の森美術館, Ueno-no-Mori Bijutsukan) opened in Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, in 1972.[1] Managed by the Japan Art Association[1] and with a focus on contemporary art,[2] exhibitions include the regular Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition [ja] and Japanese Nature Painting Exhibition (日本の自然を描く展), as well special exhibitions from overseas.[1] |
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| 50．National Museum of Western Art |
| The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.[1] |
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| 51．Tokyo National Museum |
| The Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the four museums[a] operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (ja:国立文化財機構), is considered the oldest national museum in Japan, is the largest art museum in Japan. The museum collects, preserves, and displays a comprehensive collection of artwork and cultural objects from Asia, with a focus on ancient and medieval Japanese art and Asian art along the Silk Road. There is also a large collection of Greco-Buddhist art. As of April 2023, the museum held approximately 120,000 Cultural Properties, including 89 National Treasures, 319 Horyuji Treasures, and 649 Important Cultural Properties.[2] As of the same date, the Japanese government had designated 902 works of art and crafts as National Treasures and 10,820 works of art and crafts as Important Cultural Properties,[b] so the museum holds about 10% of the works of art and crafts designated as National Treasures and 6% of those designated as Important Cultural Properties.[3]The museum also holds 2,651 cultural properties deposited by individuals and organisations, of which 54 are National Treasures and 262 are Important Cultural Properties.[4] Of these, 3,000 cultural properties are on display at one time, with each changing for between four and eight weeks.[2] The museum also conducts research and organizes educational events related to its collection. |
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| 52．Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館, Tōkyōto Bijutsukan) is a museum of art located in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government.[1] The first public art museum in Japan, it opened in 1926 as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum and was renamed in 1943 after Tokyo became a metropolitan prefecture. The museum's current building was constructed in 1975 and designed by modernist architect Kunio Maekawa, remaining one his most well-known works today. |
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| 53．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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| 54．Amuse Museum |
| The Textile Culture and Ukiyo-e Art Museum – Amuse Museum (「布文化と浮世絵の美術館」アミューズミュージアム, Nuno Bunka to Ukiyoe no Bijutsukan Amyūzu Myūjiamu), or simply Amuse Museum, was a private museum specializing in Japanese textile culture and ukiyo-e. It opened on 1 November 2009 in Asakusa, Tokyo, not too far from Ueno Park, where multiple other museums are located. The museum was closed on 31 March 2019.[1] |
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| 55．Izumi Garden Tower |
| The Izumi Garden Tower (泉ガーデンタワー, Izumi Gāden Tawā, Spring Garden Tower) is a 201 m (roughly 659 ft) high-rise building in the Roppongi district of Tokyo.[1] The tower features a hotel, apartments, a fitness center, offices, shops and restaurants. When construction was completed in 2002, the tower was the tallest building in Minato-ku,[1] although it has since been surpassed by the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. |
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| 56．Okura Museum of Art |
| Okura Museum of Art (大倉集古館, Ōkura Shūkokan) is a museum in Tokyo, Japan.[1] The museum opened in Toranomon, Tokyo in 1917 to house the collection of pre-modern Japanese and East-Asian Art amassed since the Meiji Restoration by industrialist Ōkura Kihachirō. The museum collection includes some 2,500 works, among which are three National Treasures and twelve Important Cultural Properties.[2] |
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| 57．Musée Tomo |
| Musée Tomo is a museum for contemporary Japanese ceramic art, located at 4-1-35 Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, featuring the collection of Tomo Kikuchi. 35°39′58″N 139°44′41″E / 35.66606°N 139.74461°E / 35.66606; 139.74461 |
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| 58．The National Art Center, Tokyo |
| The National Art Center (国立新美術館, Kokuritsu Shin-Bijutsukan) (NACT) is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A joint project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the National Museums Independent Administrative Institution, it stands on a site formerly occupied by a research facility of the University of Tokyo. |
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| 59．Suntory Museum of Art |
| The Suntory Museum of Art (サントリー 美術館, Santorī Bijutsukan) is an arts museum located in Tokyo Midtown, Roppongi, Tokyo. It is owned by the Suntory corporation. The collection theme of the art works is "Art in life" and they mainly have Japanese antiques. The museum houses more than 3,000 cultural objects, one of which have been designated by the Japanese government as National Treasures, 15 as Important Cultural Properties, and 21 as Important Art Objects (ja).[1] |
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| 60．Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum |
| The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (東京都庭園美術館, Tōkyō-to Teien Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Minato ward, just east of Meguro Station. The Art Deco building, completed in 1933, has interiors designed by Henri Rapin and features decorative glass work by René Lalique.[1] |
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| 61．21 21 Design Sight |
| 21_21 Design Sight is a museum in Roppongi in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, which opened in 2007. The museum, a design museum, was created by architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake. "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows exhibits," says Ando, "but also a place for researching the potentiality of design as an element that enriches our daily life, a place that fosters the public's interest in design by arousing in them different sights and perspectives on how we can view the world and the objects surrounding us."[1] The building, designed by Ando, is on the edge of the park area, and features 1,700 square meters (18,300 sq ft) of floor space, including two galleries and an attached cafe run by chef and restaurateur Takamasa Uetake. The split-level concrete structure includes a hand-sanded steel roof (whose design was inspired by Issey Miyake's A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth") concept) and 14-meter (46 ft) long glass panels. |
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| 62．Nezu Museum |
| The Nezu Museum (根津美術館, Nezu bijutsukan), formerly known as the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, is an art museum in the Minato district of Tokyo, Japan.[1] The museum is home to the private collection of pre-modern Japanese and East Asian art assembled by Nezu Kaichirō (1860–1940). Established upon Nezu's death in 1940, the museum foundation began opening exhibitions to the public in 1941. During World War II, the museum's collection was safeguarded away from central Tokyo, avoiding the destruction suffered by the estate property during the bombing in May 1945. Exhibitions resumed after the war in 1946. |
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| 63．Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art |
| The Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art (畠山記念館, Hatakeyama Kinenkan) is a private museum established in October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.[2][3] |
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| 64．Madame Tussauds |
| Madame Tussauds (UK: /tuːˈsɔːdz/, US: /tuːˈsoʊz/)[1][N. 1] is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud.[2][3] One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.[4] In 1883, the restricted space of the original Baker Street site prompted Tussaud's grandson (Joseph Randall) to commission the building at its current London location on Marylebone Road. The new exhibition galleries were opened on 14 July 1884 and were a great success. Madame Tussaud & Sons was incorporated as a private limited company (Ltd.) in 1889.[5] |
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| 65．Matsuoka Museum of Art |
| The Matsuoka Museum of Art is a private museum located in Shirokanedai, Minato, Tokyo, founded by Japanese developer Seijiro Matsuoka in November 1975.[1] The museum took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to close for renovations, reopening on 26 January, 2022 with an exhibition featuring many of the original pieces acquired by Matsuoka himself, and form the basis of the museum's collection.[2] |
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| 66．Mori Art Museum |
| The Mori Art Museum (森美術館, Mori Bijutsukan) is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori. It is located in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex, a commercial, cultural, and residential mega-complex in Tokyo, Japan. The museum's primary focus is large-scale international exhibitions of contemporary art, though it also has a permanent collection of art from Japan and the wider Asia Pacific region.[1] |
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| 67．Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama |
| 35°17′47″N 139°31′51″E / 35.2963345°N 139.5307978°E / 35.2963345; 139.5307978The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama (神奈川県立近代美術館, Kanagawa Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) is the first public modern art museum in Japan. The museum consists of three halls: Kamakura, Kamakura annex, and Hayama. |
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| 68．Hiratsuka Museum of Art |
| The Hiratsuka Museum of Art (平塚市美術館, Hiratsuka-shi bijutsukan) opened in 1991 in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The collection of approximately twelve thousand objects has a particular focus on the Shōnan area.[1][2][3] |
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| 69．Yokosuka Museum of Art |
| Yokosuka Museum of Art (横須賀美術館, Yokosuka bijutsukan) opened in Kannonzaki Park (観音崎公園), Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2007. Architect: Riken Yamamoto. The collection, numbering some 5,000 pieces, includes works by Fujishima Takeji and Nakamura Tsune.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 70．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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| 71．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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| 72．Okada Museum of Art |
| Okada Museum of Art (岡田美術館, Okada Bijutsukan) opened in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2013. A private museum of Asian art with the largest indoor exhibition space in Hakone, extending over five floors, the collection of some 450 pieces centres on early modern and modern Japanese painting while also including Chinese bronzes, lacquer, ceramics, and Buddhist sculpture.[1][2] |
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| 73．Hakone Open-Air Museum |
| The Hakone Open-Air Museum (箱根 彫刻の森美術館, Hakone Choukoku no Mori Bijutsukan), opened in 1969, is Japan's first open-air museum. It is located in Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture. Hosting over 1,000 pieces, it includes artworks by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Taro Okamoto, Yasuo Mizui, Churyo Sato, Susumu Shingu, Constantin Brâncuși, Barbara Hepworth, Rokuzan Ogiwara, and Kōtarō Takamura, among others.[1] About 120 sculptural works are on permanent display across the park.[2] The museum is affiliated with the Fujisankei Communications Group media conglomerate.[citation needed] |
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| 74．Pola Museum of Art |
| Pola Museum of Art (ポーラ美術館, Pōra Bijutsukan) is located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened in September 2002 within Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It houses the collection of over 9,500 works acquired by the former head of the Pola cosmetics group, including many works of French Impressionism and of the École de Paris.[1][2] The striking building is by Nikken Sekkei.[3][4]The museum added the "Pola Museum of Art Nature Trail" in 2013, a 670 meter long hiking trail along the museum grounds intended for museum guests to enjoy the scenery at Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.[5] |
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| 75．Yokohama Museum of Art |
| Yokohama Museum of Art (横浜美術館, Yokohama Bijutsukan), founded in 1989, is located in the futuristic Minato Mirai 21 district of the Japanese city Yokohama, next to the Yokohama Landmark Tower.[1] |
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| 78．Ishikawa Nanao Art Museum |
| Ishikawa Nanao Art Museum (石川県七尾美術館, Ishikawa Nanao bijutsukan) opened in 1995 in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The main art gallery on the Noto Peninsula, the collection includes works by Hasegawa Tōhaku.[1][2][3] |
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| 79．Wajima Museum of Urushi Art |
| The Wajima Museum of Urushi Art (Japanese: 石川県輪島漆芸美術館) is a museum located in Wajima, Japan. The museum specializes in lacquer art. The museum was opened in 1991, originally the museum contains 300 works at its opening, in 2021, it was recorded that there were 1428 works of art that the museum contained.[1] In August 2020, the museum organized a virtual exhibition through the Google Arts & Culture platform.[2] In June 2021, a ceremony was held for the expansion of the museum's storage.[1] This is the first museum in Japan that specializes in lacquer art.[3] The design of the building is inspired by Shogakuin's school building.[citation needed] |
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| 80．Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art |
| Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (石川県立美術館, Ishikawa Kenritsu Bijutsukan), also known as IPMA, is the main art gallery of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.[1] The collection includes some of the prefecture's most important cultural assets and works by artists with some connection to the region.[2] It is located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa[3] within the grounds of the Kenrokuen Garden.[4] |
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| 81．Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum |
| The Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum (Japanese: 金沢市立安江金箔工芸館) is a museum about gold leaf in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. |
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| 82．21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
| The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (金沢21世紀美術館, Kanazawa Nijūisseiki Bijutsukan) is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October 2005, one year after its opening, the Museum marked 1,570,000 visitors.[1] In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic it attracted only 971,256 visitors, a drop of 63 percent from 2019, but it still ranked tenth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world. [2] |
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| 83．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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| 84．National Crafts Museum (Japan) |
| The National Crafts Museum (国立工芸館, Kokuritsu Kōgei Kan) is a museum of Japanese crafts in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Still retaining the more formal, official designation National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Craft Gallery (東京国立近代美術館工芸館), it forms part of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art (ja). As part of the government policy of regional revitalization, the facility relocated in 2020 from Kitanomaru Park in Tokyo, where it first opened in 1977. It is now housed in two Western-style buildings of the Meiji period that have themselves been relocated from elsewhere in Kanazawa, reassembled, and restored, the 1898 Old 9th Division Command Headquarters and 1909 Old Army Generals Club. From the collection of some 3,800 items, by craftsmen from all over Japan, some 1,900 have been transferred, including approximately 1,400 by "holders" and preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties, who are often referred to as "Living National Treasures", and members of the Japan Art Academy.[1][2] |
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| 88．Iida City Museum |
| Iida City Museum (飯田市美術博物館, Iida-shi bijutsu hakubutsu-kan) opened in Iida, Nagano Prefecture, Japan in 1989.[1] The museum's collections and display relate to the natural history, history, and art of the area and include a number of works by Hishida Shunsō, who was born locally.[2][3] |
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| 89．Kitano Museum of Art |
| The Kitano Museum of Art (北野美術館, Kitano Bijutsukan), which opened in 1968 as the first private art museum in Nagano Prefecture,[2] is today run by a public interest incorporated foundation, in the Wakaho district, in the southeastern section of Nagano in Nagano Prefecture. [3] The museum is located next to the Yushimatenmangu Shrine, a branch of Yushima Tenman-gū which was founded in 458 in Bunkyō in Tokyo. The entrance to the museum is through the Yushimatenmangu Shrine. The museum includes a Japanese garden by Mirei Shigemori, a notable 20th century modern landscape architect, that was completed in 1965.[4] |
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| 90．Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts |
| Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts (サンリツ服部美術館, Sanritsu Hattori bijutsukan) is located on the shore of Lake Suwa in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Designed by Shōzō Uchii, it opened in 1995. The collection includes works by Renoir and Chagall, Ogata Kōrin and Sakai Hōitsu, as well as one of the two Japanese National Treasure tea bowls, Fuji-san by Honami Kōetsu.[1][2][3] |
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| 91．Nagano Prefectural Art Museum |
| Nagano Prefectural Art Museum (長野県立美術館, Nagano Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is a museum in Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.[1] The museum first opened as the Shinano Art Museum Foundation, and is located next to the Zenkō-ji Buddhist Temple. Due to the deterioation of the building, it was reopened on April 10,2021 as the Nagano Prefectural Art Museum.[2] |
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| 92．Japan Ukiyo-e Museum |
| The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum (日本浮世絵博物館, Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan)(JUM) is a privately owned Japanese art museum in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.[1] It holds over 100,000 Japanese woodblock prints, regarded as the world's largest collection of this form of art.[2] The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum was established in 1982 by Tokichi Sakai, a member of the Sakai merchant family, who have practiced business in Matsumoto for generations.[3] It is based on collections of ukiyo-e owned by the family. The first items were collected by Yoshitaka Sakai (1810–69), paper wholesaler and art patron, and his son and grandson. Over the years, the collection has grown to include not only historical prints, but also many contemporary prints by Japanese artists. Items from this collection have been exhibited in Europe, North America, the Middle East, South America, and elsewhere in East Asia.[2] |
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| 93．Sezon Museum of Modern Art |
| The Sezon Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The museum hosts exhibitions on contemporary art.[1] |
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| 100．Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum |
| The Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (愛知県陶磁美術館, Aichi-ken Tōji bijutsukan) is a prefectural art museum located in the city of Seto, north of the metropolis of Nagoya in central Japan. This museum was formally named "Aichi-ken Toji Shiryokan (愛知県陶磁資料館)", but the name in English has been the same as before. |
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| 101．Kariya City Art Museum |
| Kariya City Art Museum (刈谷市美術館, Kariya-shi Bijutsukan) opened in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1983. The collection focuses on local, modern, post-war, and contemporary art, and includes some 3,441 works by 168 artists, as of April 2020.[1][2][3] |
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| 102．Toyota Municipal Museum of Art |
| The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (豊田市美術館, Toyota-shi Bijutsukan) is an art museum located in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The museum features works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, and others. The museum building was constructed by Yoshio Taniguchi, who also renovated the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. |
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| 103．Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History |
| The Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History (豊橋市美術博物館, Toyohashi-shi Bijutsu Hakubutsukan) is a purpose-built municipal art museum and local cultural museum in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1979. The permanent collections of the museum are concentrated around five themes: The building is a two-story ferroconcrete construction, with two display rooms downstairs and five display rooms upstairs. The museum is in Toyohashi Park, near Yoshida Castle in downtown Toyohashi. |
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| 104．Menard Art Museum |
| The Menard Art Museum (メナード美術館) is a museum located in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The museum was founded by the owners of Nippon Menard Cosmetic Co. and opened in 1987. Art works in the permanent collection include "Portrait of Jeanne Martin in hat adorned with rose" by Édouard Manet (1881), and "Man in a Field or Evening, the End of the Day" (1889) by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. |
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| 105．Sugimoto Art Museum |
| The Sugimoto Art Museum (杉本美術館) features the work of the Japanese painter Kenkichi Sugimoto (1905-2004) and is located in Mihama, Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The museum is operated by the Meitetsu railway company. 34°48′07″N 136°51′59″E / 34.8019°N 136.8663°E / 34.8019; 136.8663 |
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| 106．Kuwayama Art Museum |
| The Kuwayama Art Museum (桑山美術館 Kuwayama Bijitsukan) is a private art museum located in Yamanaka district, Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It exhibits Japanese ceramics and paintings which were collected by the gallery's first director, Kuwayama Kiyokazu. The museum also has a multipurpose hall, a small garden and a chashitsu indoors and also outside.[1] |
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| 107．International Design Centre Nagoya |
| The International Design Center NAGOYA and Design Museum (国際デザインセンター, Kokusai Dezain Sentā), abbreviated as IdcN, is a museum and exhibition hall located in Sakae, Nagoya, central Japan. The World Design Exhibition 1989 was held in Nagoya. The museum was established in 1992 and opened in 1996 in the Nadya Park skyscraper.[1] Exhibited are leading designers and artists of conceptualisation, form and function. The pieces range from the Art Deco to the present. Works by Isamu Noguchi and Arne Jacobsen are included, as well as product design icons such as the Mini Cooper. |
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| 108．Showa Museum of Art |
| The Showa Museum of Art (昭和美術館 Shōwa Bijitsukan) is a private art museum located in the Shiomi district of Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. |
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| 109．Tokugawa Art Museum |
| The Tokugawa Art Museum (徳川美術館, Tokugawa Bijutsukan) is a private art museum, located on the former Ōzone Shimoyashiki compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). |
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| 110．Nagoya City Art Museum |
| The Nagoya City Art Museum (名古屋市美術館, Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan) is located in the city of Nagoya in central Japan. The museum building itself was constructed by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the leading Japanese architects, from 1983 to 1987. Works by the surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, Sean Scully, and Alexander Calder belong to its permanent collection. Artists such as Hakuyō Fuchikami, Nakaji Yasui and Jean-Michel Othoniel have exhibited their works there. |
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| 111．Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts |
| The Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts (N/BMFA) (名古屋ボストン美術館, Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan) was an art museum in Nagoya, Japan, that operated from 1999 to 2018. |
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| 117．Sen-oku Hakuko Kan |
| 35°01′03″N 135°47′34″E / 35.0176°N 135.7929°E / 35.0176; 135.7929 Sen-oku Hakuko Kan (泉屋博古館) is located in Kyoto, Japan and houses a large collection of Chinese bronze vessels, Chinese and Japanese mirrors, and a few Chinese bronze Buddhist figures. |
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| 118．Kitamura Museum |
| Kitamura Museum (北村美術館, Kitamura Bijutsukan) opened near the confluence of the Kamo and Takano Rivers in Kyoto, Japan, in 1977. The collection, based on that built up by businessman Kitamura Kinjirō (北村謹次郎), comprises some 1,000 works including thirty-three Important Cultural Properties and nine Important Art Objects, with a particular focus on tea utensils. There is also a tea garden, Shikunshien (四君子苑), a Registered Cultural Property. The museum opens to the public for exhibitions each autumn and spring.[1][2] |
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| 119．National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
| The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (京都国立近代美術館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan.[2] This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). |
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| 120．Kyoto National Museum |
| The Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) is one of the major art museums in Japan.[2] Located in Kyoto's Higashiyama ward, the museum focuses on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art. |
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| 121．Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art |
| The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (京都市京セラ美術館) is located in Okazaki Park in Sakyō-ku Kyoto. Formerly Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (京都市美術館, Kyōto-shi Bijutsukan), it is one of the oldest art museums in Japan.[1] it opened in 1928 as Shōwa Imperial Coronation Art Museum of Kyoto, a commemoration of Emperor Hirohito's coronation. |
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| 122．Koryo Museum of Art |
| The Koryo Museum of Art (高麗美術館, Kōrai Bijutsukan, Korean: 고려미술관) is a Korean art museum in Kyoto, Japan. It was opened on October 25, 1988.[1] |
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| 123．Nomura Art Museum |
| Nomura Art Museum (野村美術館, Nomura Bijutsukan) opened near Nanzen-ji in Kyoto, Japan, in 1984. The sukiya-style building has two rooms for displaying exhibits and there is also a chashitsu. The collection, based on that built up by financier Tokushichi Nomura II, comprises some 1,700 works (paintings, calligraphic works, Noh masks, Noh costumes, and tea utensils), including seven Important Cultural Properties and nine Important Art Objects.[1][2][3] |
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| 124．Yūrinkan Museum |
| The Yūrinkan Museum (有鄰館) or Fujii Saiseikai Yūrinkan (藤井斉成会有鄰館) is a private museum of East Asian art in Kyōto, Japan. Established in 1926 by entrepreneur and politician Fujii Zensuke (1860–1934), it is the second oldest private museum in Japan, after the Ōkura Shūkokan.[1] The collection, particularly strong in Chinese art from the Shang to the Qing, includes one National Treasure and nine Important Cultural Properties.[2] |
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| 125．Museum of Furuta Oribe |
| Museum of Furuta Oribe (古田織部美術館) is a museum in Kita-ku, Kyoto, dedicated to works of Lord Furuta Oribe. 35°03′28″N 135°43′58″E / 35.0577°N 135.7328°E / 35.0577; 135.7328 |
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| 126．Hosomi Museum |
| Hosomi Museum (細見美術館, Hosomi Bijutsukan) opened near Okazaki Park (岡崎公園) in Kyoto, Japan, in 1998. The collection, begun by Osaka industrialist Hosomi Ryō (細見良, 1901－1978), numbers some one thousand pieces including thirty Important Cultural Properties, ranging from haniwa and tea utensils to paintings of the Heian and Kamakura periods as well as by Itō Jakuchū and Katsushika Hokusai. These are exhibited on a rotating basis with four or five exhibitions each year.[2][3][4] |
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| 127．Ryūkoku Museum |
| The Ryūkoku Museum (龍谷ミュージアム) is a museum of Buddhist art and history in Kyōto, Japan. Conceived as part of the 370th anniversary celebrations of the foundation of what is now Ryūkoku University, it opened facing Nishi Hongan-ji in 2011. The museum displays works from its "vast"[2] collection and there is also a digital recreation of the corridor of Cave 15 at Bezeklik.[2][3] The façade has four thousand ceramic louvers, intended to give a feeling of traditional Kyōto while also helping regulate light and temperature within.[1] |
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| 128．Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi |
| The Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi (和泉市久保惣記念美術館, Izumi-shi Kubosō Kinen Bijutsukan) opened in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in 1982. The new wing was added in 1997. The local Kubo family, founders of the Kubosō cotton textile business, donated the land, buildings, collection, and funds for the museum's management to the city. The collection of some eleven thousand works includes two National Treasures (the Kasen Uta-awase scroll and the Southern Song celadon vase with phoenix ears known as Bansei) and twenty-nine Important Cultural Properties.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 129．Itsuō Art Museum |
| Itsuō Art Museum (逸翁美術館, Itsuō Bijutsukan) opened in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in 1957. The new building opened in 1997. The collection, built up by founder Kobayashi Ichizō, whose pseudonym was Itsuō, comprises some 5,500 works, including fifteen Important Cultural Properties and twenty Important Art Objects.[1][2][3] |
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| 130．Masaki Art Museum |
| Masaki Art Museum (Japanese: 正木美術館, Hepburn: Masaki Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tadaoka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, that opened in 1968. The collection, built up by Masaki Takayuki (正木孝之), comprises some thirteen hundred works, including three National Treasures and twelve Important Cultural Properties.[1][2][3] |
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| 131．Abeno Harukas Art Museum |
| Abeno Harukas Art Museum (あべのハルカス美術館, Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan) opened in Abeno-ku, Ōsaka, Japan, in 2014. Specializing in temporary exhibitions, it is located on the 16th floor of Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest building, named after the ward of Abeno and the expression harukasu (晴るかす), meaning 'brightening up'. The Museum's inaugural director is art historian Asano Shūgō (浅野秀剛), director of Kintetsu Railway Company's other cultural initiative, the Yamato Bunkakan.[1] |
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| 132．Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka |
| The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka (大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館) is a Japanese art museum and regarded as one of the best ceramic-collections in the world. This museum collects, studies, conserves, exhibits and interprets East Asian ceramics, which mainly came from ancient China and Korea. The world-famous Ataka Collection, donated by the 21 companies of the Sumitomo Group, as well as the Rhee Byung-Chang Collection, provide the public an aesthetic experience with first-class collection.[1] |
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| 133．Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts |
| The Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts (大阪市立美術館) is a museum located in Tennōji Park, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. The museum focuses on Japanese and east Asian art.[1] |
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| 134．Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka |
| Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka (大阪中之島美術館, Ōsaka Nakanoshima Bijutsukan) opened in Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan in 2022.[2] The collection includes works by Modigliani and Dalí, Kishida Ryūsei and Saeki Yūzō.[3] |
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| 135．National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| The National Museum of Art, Osaka (国立国際美術館, Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan) is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka. The official Japanese title of the museum translates as the "National Museum of International Art". The museum is also known by the English acronym NMAO (National Museum of Art, Osaka). |
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| 136．Fujita Art Museum |
| The Fujita Art Museum (藤田美術館, Fujita Bijutsukan) is one of the largest private collections in the Kansai region. The collection was assembled by Fujita Denzaburō and his descendants. It was installed in a storehouse on the family property in Osaka. Opened to the public in 1954, the collection houses Chinese and Japanese painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, textiles, metalwork, and Japanese tea ceremony objects. |
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| 137．Yuki Museum of Art |
| Yuki Museum of Art (湯木美術館, Yuki Bijutsukan) opened in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan, in 1987. The collection, built up by Yuki Teiichi (湯木貞一) of kaiseki restaurant Kitchō fame, includes twelve Important Cultural Properties and three Important Art Objects.[1][2] |
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| 138．Osaka Contemporary Art Center |
| The Osaka Contemporary Art Center (大阪府立現代美術センター, Ōsaka furitsu gendai bijutsu sentā) is an art gallery in Osaka, Japan, administered by Osaka Prefecture. The center started in 1974 as Ōsaka Fumin Gyararī (大阪府民ギャラリー). In 1980 its Japanese name was changed to that used today, on the occasion of its move within Kita-ku (Osaka) from Dōjima to Nakanoshima. In 2000 it moved to Chūō-ku. |
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| 139．Amagasaki Cultural Center |
| The Amagasaki Cultural Center (尼崎市総合文化センター) is a complex located in Amagasaki, Japan. The building, which opened in 1975, has three concerts halls. The "Archaic Hall" is the largest and seats 2,030 people. Notable past performers include Roger Daltrey, Yes, The Smashing Pumpkins, INXS, Santana and Alcatrazz.[1] |
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| 140．Kurokawa Institute of Ancient Cultures |
| The Kurokawa Institute of Ancient Cultures (黒川古文化研究所, Kurokawa Kobunka Kenkyūjo) is a private research institute in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan that preserves, researches, publishes, and exhibits materials relating to the arts, crafts, archaeology, history, and cultures of East Asia, in particular China and Japan. Established in 1950, the Institute relocated from Ashiya to Nishinomiya in 1974. The collection numbers some 8,500 works (20,000 individual items).[1][2] |
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| 141．Kōsetsu Museum of Art |
| The Kōsetsu Museum of Art (香雪美術館, Kōsetsu Bijutsukan) is an art museum that opened in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1973.[1] The museum preserves, researches, and displays the collection of Japanese and East Asian artworks—including Buddhist art, calligraphic works, tea utensils, early-modern paintings, arms and armour, and lacquerware—built up by Murayama Ryōhei [ja], also known as Kōsetsu,[2] founder of The Asahi Shimbun.[1] These works include nineteen Important Cultural Properties and twenty-three Important Works of Fine Arts.[3] In December 2021, the museum closed for an extended period of renovation, although exhibition activities continue through the Nakanoshima Kōsetsu Museum of Art in Osaka.[4] |
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| 142．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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| 143．Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum |
| Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum (白鶴美術館, Hakutsuru Bijutsukan) opened in 1934 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan to display the collection of Kanō Jihei, seventh head of the Hakutsu Sake Brewing Company (白鶴酒造). As such it was one of the first private museums in Japan.[1] The collection of some 1450 items includes two National Treasures and twenty-two Important Cultural Properties.[2] |
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| 144．Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art |
| The Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art (兵庫県立美術館, Hyōgo Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is a purpose built municipal art gallery in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was opened in 2002. The major collections of the museum are foreign and Japanese sculptures, foreign and Japanese prints, Western-style and Japanese-style paintings associated with Hyogo Prefecture, Japanese greatworks in modern era, and contemporary art. |
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| 145．Tomimoto Kenkichi Memorial Museum |
| The Tomimoto Kenkichi Memorial Museum (富本憲吉記念館, Tomimoto Kenkichi Kinenkan) opened in Ando, Nara Prefecture, Japan in 1974. It is dedicated to the life and works of Tomimoto Kenkichi, who was born in the vicinity.[1][2] Media related to Kenkichi Tomimoto Memorial Hall at Wikimedia Commons 34°36′14.6″N 135°45′26.7″E / 34.604056°N 135.757417°E / 34.604056; 135.757417 |
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| 146．Nara Prefecture Complex of Man'yo Culture |
| The Nara Prefecture Complex of Man'yo Culture (奈良県立万葉文化館, Nara-kenritsu Man'yō Bunkakan) is a museum located in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture in Japan. It is dedicated to the Man'yōshū, an 8th-century anthology of waka poetry. Its honorary director is Susumu Nakanishi. |
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| 147．Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City |
| Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City (入江泰吉記念奈良市写真美術館, Irie Taikichi Kinen Nara-shi Shashin Bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1992. Located near Shin-Yakushi-ji and designed by Kishō Kurokawa, the Museum was formerly known as the Nara City Museum of Photography (奈良市写真美術館). The collection includes the complete oeuvre of Irie Taikichi (1905 – 1992), some 80,000 works; a set of 1,025 Meiji and Taishō glass plates by Kudō Risaburō (工藤利三郎) (1848 – 1929) that are a Registered Tangible Cultural Property; and photographs by Tsuda Yoho (津田洋甫) (1923 – 2014).[1][2][3][4] |
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| 148．Shōhaku Art Museum |
| Shōhaku Art Museum (松伯美術館, Shōhaku Bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1994. It was established thanks to donations of artworks and the support of Kintetsu. The collection comprises paintings and sketches by Uemura Shōen, Uemura Shōkō (上村松篁), and Uemura Atsushi (上村淳之), and special exhibitions are staged to help promote the appreciation of Nihonga. The shō (松) element of the museum's name is derived from the first character of the first two of these artists' given names, as well as from the pines in the garden of the former honorary chairman of Kintetsu, where the museum now stands, while the haku (伯) element comes from its tea house, known as Hakusentei (伯泉亭).[1][2] |
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| 149．Nakano Museum of Art |
| Nakano Museum of Art (中野美術館, Nakano Bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1984. Located across Kaerumata Pond (蛙股池) from the Yamato Bunkakan, the museum's collection of Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa yōga, nihonga, sculptures, and copper-plate engravings, built up by Nakano Kanji (中野皖司), includes works by Asai Chū, Nakamura Tsune, Kishida Ryūsei, Suda Kunitarō (須田国太郎), and Yokoyama Taikan.[1][2] |
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| 150．Nara Prefectural Museum of Art |
| Nara Prefectural Museum of Art (奈良県立美術館, Nara kenritsu bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan in 1973. The collection numbers some 4,100 items and special exhibitions are also held.[1][2] |
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| 151．Nara National Museum |
| The Nara National Museum (奈良国立博物館, Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) is one of the pre-eminent national art museums in Japan.[1] |
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| 152．Neiraku Museum |
| Neiraku Museum (寧楽美術館, Neiraku Bijitsukan) is an art museum in the city of Nara, central Japan.[1] The museum opened in April 1969. It contains the works collected by Nakamura Junsaku (1875–1953), who was the founder of the Isuien Garden. The collection totals over 2000 items, which includes bronze wares, seals and mirrors of ancient China as well as pottery of ancient Korea. The museum building was built in a traditional style and features rotating exhibitions. |
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| 153．Museum Yamato Bunkakan |
| The Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan (大和文華館, Yamato bunkakan) is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara.[1] The museum was established in 1960[2] to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation (named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. till June 27, 2003).[3] |
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| 161．Adachi Museum of Art |
| The Adachi Museum of Art (足立美術館, Adachi Bijutsukan) opened in Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1970. It houses a collection of nihonga (modern Japanese paintings), including paintings by Yokoyama Taikan, and has a celebrated garden.[1] Its six gardens and around 1,500 exhibits of Japanese paintings, pottery, and other works of art occupy the 165,000 square-meter area. Adachi Museum of Art earned the top rating of three stars in Michelin Green Guide Japan because of its elegance.[2] |
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| 162．Iwami Art Museum |
| Iwami Art Museum (島根県立石見美術館, Shimane Kenritsu Iwami Bijutsukan) opened in Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, in 2005. Together with Iwami Arts Theatre (島根県立いわみ芸術劇場) it forms part of the Shimane Arts Centre (島根県芸術文化センター), also known as Grand Toit (グラントワ), the French for "large roof". The collection includes works by Kanō Shōei (狩野松栄), Unkoku Tōgan, Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji, Okada Saburōsuke, and Kishida Ryūsei.[1][2][3] |
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| 163．Shimane Art Museum |
| The Shimane Art Museum (島根県立美術館, Shimane kenritsu bijutsukan) opened in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1999. Designed by Kiyonori Kikutake and with a total floor area of 12,500 square metres, it houses a collection of Japanese and Western art, including Momoyama folding screens and paintings by Corot, Sisley, Monet, and Gauguin.[1][2] |
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| 164．Tanabe Art Museum |
| The Tanabe Art Museum (田部美術館, Tanabe Bijutsukan) was established in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1979. Designed by Kiyonori Kikutake and with a total floor area of 854 sqm, it houses a collection of tea ceremony implements and other treasures acquired by the local Tanabe clan.[1][2] 35°28′45″N 133°2′59.3″E / 35.47917°N 133.049806°E / 35.47917; 133.049806 |
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| 165．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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| 166．Ohara Museum of Art |
| The Ohara Museum of Art (大原美術館, Ōhara Bijutsukan) in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection. |
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| 167．Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art |
| The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (岡山県立美術館, Okayama Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is located in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.[1] The museum, by architects Okada & Associates, opened in 1988 and has a collection of around two thousand works.[2][3] |
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| 168．Okayama Orient Museum |
| Okayama Orient Museum (岡山市立オリエント美術館, Okayama Shiritsu Oriento Bijutsukan) is a museum of Ancient Near Eastern, Roman provincial, Byzantine, Sassanian, and Islamic Art in Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2007 there were some 4,852 items, including a winged Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia, acquired to mark the institution's 25th anniversary.[1] |
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| 169．Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art |
| The Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art (Nagi MOCA) (奈義町現代美術館, Nagi-chō Gendai Bijutsukan) is a museum in Nagi, Okayama, Japan. It was jointly created by architect Arata Isozaki and artists whose works are displayed.[1][2] |
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| 170．Hayashibara Museum of Art |
| The Hayashibara Museum of Art (林原美術館, Hayashibara Bijutsukan) is an art museum owned by the Hayashibara Group, and located at 2-7-15 Marunouchi, Kita-ku, Okayama, the site of a former guesthouse beside the inner moat of Okayama Castle. Its 6,832 square meter interior was designed by Kunio Maekawa. The owner of the collection was Ichiro Hayashibara, and the museum was opened in 1964, to honor his final wishes to display his collection to the public after his death. The museum owns approximately 10,000 artifacts from Hayashibara's personal collection, including swords, armor, and pottery collected by Mr. Hayashibara, and Noh costumes, furniture, paintings, and Japanese lacquer from the Ikeda clan. The museum itself has limited space, so exhibits are rotated four to five times per year.[1] |
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| 171．Yumeji Art Museum |
| Yumeji Art Museum (夢二郷土美術館, Yumeji Kyōdo Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Okayama Prefecture split between the main museum in Naka-ku, Okayama and the Yumeji Seika and Shonen Sanso annex built in Setouchi, the birthplace of Yumeji Takehisa, a poet and artist who was active in the early 1900s. |
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| 183．Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum |
| Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum (Japanese: 香川県立東山魁夷せとうち美術館, romanized: Kagawa Kenritsu Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Bijutsukan) is an art museum dedicated to Japanese painting master Kaii Higashiyama.[1] The museum is located in the city of Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, where Higashiyama's grandfather was born.[1][2] The museum features 350 works by Higashiyama that were donated by his wife after he died.[3][4] |
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| 184．Takamatsu Art Museum |
| The Takamatsu Art Museum (高松市美術館, Takamatsu-shi Bijutsukan) opened in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1988.[1] The collection, totalling over 1,700 works,[2] has three principal strands: post-war Japanese art, modern and contemporary world art, and the arts and crafts of Kagawa Prefecture.[2] The Museum's predecessor institution, Takamatsu Bijutsukan (高松美術館), opened in Ritsurin Garden in 1949.[3][4][5] |
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| 185．Chichu Art Museum |
| The Chichu Art Museum (地中美術館, Chichū Bijutsukan) (literally 'art museum in the earth') is a museum built directly into a southern portion of the island of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was designed by architect Tadao Ando and opened to the public on July 18, 2004. |
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| 186．Teshima Art Museum |
| The Teshima Art Museum (豊島美術館, Teshima Bijitsukan) hosts a single piece of artwork and is located on the island of Teshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, in the Seto Inland Sea.[1][2] It is operated by the Benesse Foundation. The architect is Ryue Nishizawa (co-founder of SANAA). The museum building is made of a freestanding concrete shell which is 25 cm-thick, 40 by 60 meters, and 4 meters at its highest point.[3] |
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| 187．Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art |
| Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (丸亀市猪熊弦一郎現代美術館, Marugame-shi Inokuma Genichirō Gendai Bijutsukan) (MIMOCA) opened in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1991.[1] Architect Yoshio Taniguchi designed the museum building.[2] The museum collection comprises some twenty thousand works donated by artist Gen’ichirō Inokuma.[1][2] Special exhibitions of works by other contemporary artists are also staged.[2] |
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| 188．Shodoshima Yokai Art Museum |
| The Shodoshima Yokai Art Museum,[1] also known as the Yokai Bijutsukan Art Museum is a small museum in Kagawa prefecture, which is focused on yōkai, supernatural entities in Japanese folklore. |
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| 194．Idemitsu Museum of Arts |
| Idemitsu Museum of Arts (出光美術館, Idemitsu Bijutsukan) is an art museum located in the Marunouchi area of Chiyoda, Tokyo (東京都千代田区丸の内). |
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| 195．Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art |
| The Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (北九州市立美術館, Kitakyūshū Shiritsu Bijutsukan) is located in Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Designed by Arata Isozaki, it sits on a hill straddling the three wards of Kokura Kita, Tobata, and Yahata Higashi. The museum houses more than 6,000 pieces of art, as well as offering various exhibitions throughout the year. The surrounding park not only offers a pleasant view over Tobata but is also a peaceful oasis with artwork in the form of sculptures scattered throughout. |
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| 196．Kyushu National Museum |
| 33°31′6.08″N 130°32′17.87″E / 33.5183556°N 130.5382972°E / 33.5183556; 130.5382972 The Kyushu National Museum (九州国立博物館, Kyūshū Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) opened on October 16, 2005, in Dazaifu near Fukuoka—the first new national museum in Japan in over 100 years, and the first to elevate the focus on history over art.[1] The distinct modern impression created by the architectural facade is mirrored in the museum's use of technological innovations which are put to good in making the museum's collections accessible to the public. For example, the museum's extremely high resolution video system, with the latest image processing and color management software, serves both in documenting the objects in the museum's collection and also in expanding access beyond the limits of a large, but finite exhibition space.[2] |
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| 197．Kurume City Art Museum |
| Kurume City Art Museum (久留米市美術館, Kurume-shi Bijutsukan) opened as the successor to the Ishibashi Museum of Art in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan in 2016. It forms part of the Ishibashi Culture Center, which opened in 1956, alongside the studio of yōga painter Sakamoto Hanjirō (坂本繁二郎), relocated from Yame in 1980, and Shōjirō Ishibashi Memorial Museum, dedicated to the founder of Bridgestone and donated to the city by the Ishibashi Foundation after renovation in 2016, on the sixtieth anniversary of the Ishibashi Culture Center's opening. The focus of the collection is the work of local artists, notably Kurume scions Aoki Shigeru and Sakamoto Hanjirō, as well as Kyūshū yōga more generally.[1][2][3] |
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| 198．Fukuoka Asian Art Museum |
| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (福岡アジア美術館, Fukuoka Ajia Bijutsukan) is a museum of Asian art that opened in Hakata, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1999.[1] The collection of modern and contemporary art comprises some three thousand works from twenty-three countries.[2][3] |
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| 199．Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art |
| Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (福岡県立美術館, Fukuoka kenritsu bijutsukan) opened in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985. The collection focuses upon artists from Fukuoka Prefecture and Kyūshū more generally, and includes works by Koga Harue. The Museum's precursor, the Fukuoka Prefectural Cultural Hall (福岡県文化会館), which combined art museum with library, opened on 3 November 1964.[1][2][3] |
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| 200．Fukuoka Art Museum |
| Fukuoka Art Museum (福岡市美術館, Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Fukuoka, Japan. It contains a notable collection of Asian art and exhibits various temporary exhibitions. In November 2010 it hosted a large exhibition of Marc Chagall's work. The Madonna of Port Lligat by Salvador Dalí is exhibited at this museum. |
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| 201．Fukuoka Oriental Ceramics Museum |
| Fukuoka Oriental Ceramics Museum (福岡東洋陶磁美術館, Fukuoka tōyō tōji bijutsukan) opened in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1999. The rotating displays of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics draw from the collection of some four hundred pieces.[1][2] |
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