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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 [], is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo: Haniwa armored man (埴輪武装男子立像, haniwa busō danshi ritsuzō) or Warrior in keikō type armor [60] Terra cotta Haniwa (burial figure of an armored man with a sword, a bow, and a quiver of arrows, height: 131.5 cm (51.8 in) late Kofun period, 6th century
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The very words in Japanese for museum as well as for art were coined in the Meiji period (from 1868) to capture Western concepts after the Iwakura Mission and other early visits to North America and Europe. [18] The Tokyo National Museum was founded in 1872 after the first exhibition by the Museum Department of the new Ministry of Education. [19]
Tokyo National Museum: by Li Di: 25.2 centimetres (9.9 in) by 25.5 centimetres (10.0 in) *Sixteen Arhats, colour on silk 絹本著色十六羅漢像 kenpon chakushoku jūroku rakan zu: Heian period: Taitō: Tokyo National Museum
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Ueno Park has the Tokyo National Museum, the country's largest museum specializing in traditional Japanese art, [213] the National Museum of Western Art, whose building designed by Le Corbusier is a world heritage site, [214] and the National Museum of Nature and Science. Ueno Zoo is also located within the park, near the Shinobazu Pond.
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo: Merry-making under aronia blossoms (紙本著色花下遊楽図, shihon chakushoku kaka yūraku) [50] Kanō Naganobu: The two middle sections of the right screen were destroyed by fire in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Momoyama period, 17th century