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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 Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. [1]
Kōjirō Matsukata (松方 幸次郎, Matsukata Kōjirō, January 17, 1865 – June 24, 1950) was a Japanese businessman who, in parallel to his professional activities, devoted his life and fortune to amassing a collection of Western art which, he hoped, would become the nucleus of a Japanese national museum focused particularly on masterworks of the Western art tradition.
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.
This is an incomplete list of artists represented in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897. [1] The definition and the criteria have changed since the inception of the term. These paintings adhere to the current definition, and were designated national treasures when the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties was implemented on June 9 ...
Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲, 2 March 1716 – 27 October 1800) [1] was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period when Japan had isolated itself from the outside world. Many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1959 Le Corbusier's only building in Japan is the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Le Corbusier's three Japanese apprentices: Kunio Maekawa , Junzo Sakakura and Takamasa Yoshizaka were responsible for executing the plans and supervising the construction. [ 15 ]
The National Art Center, Tokyo; National Film Archive of Japan; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) National Museum of Japanese History; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Nature and Science; National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty; National Showa ...