Ōkura Shūkokan
The Ōkura Shūkokan ( Japanese 大 倉 集 古 館 , English Okura Museum of Art ) is a private art museum in Minato , Tokyo .
history
The museum was opened by the entrepreneur Ōkura Kihachirō (1837-1928) as the first private art museum in Japan in August 1917 on his property. The building was destroyed in the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 and many works of art were lost. With the new building, designed by the well-known architect Itō Chūta , emphasis was placed on earthquake and fire safety. The opening took place in October 1928.
His son Kishichirō (1882–1963) took care of the museum intensively, also leaving him many objects from his own collection. Interested in contemporary art, he acquired works by Hayami Gyoshū (1894–1935), Maeda Seison (1885–1977), Yokoyama Taikan , the latter a. a. the pair of screens depicting “cherry blossoms by torchlight”.
The collection was transferred to a foundation in 1960. With the construction of the Hotel Ōkura in 1962 on the family property, structural changes were made to the museum, which were completed in May 1962.
The collection
The collection currently comprises 2500 objects (pictures, old books, sculptures, ceramics, lacquerware, metallic objects, swords, old books) from Japan, China, India and Thailand. These include:
- 3 national treasures ,
- “Nine Horsemen” ( 淡彩 随身 庭 騎 絵 巻 , Tansai zuijin teiki emaki ), picture scroll, Kamakura period
- “ Samantabhadra on an elephant” ( 普賢 菩薩 騎 象 像 , Fugen bosatsu kishōzō ), wooden sculpture, Heian period
- “Introduction to the collection of poems Kokin-wakashū ” ( 古今 和 歌集 序 , Kokin-wakashū jō ), calligraphy, Heian period
- 13 valuable cultural assets ,
- 44 Valuable art objects.
The library contains 35,650 books.
literature
- Leaflet from The Okura Shukokan Museum . no year
- Tokyo-to hakubutsukan kyogikai (Ed.): Tokyo no Hakubutsukan . 17th edition 1990. p. 230 ff
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Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 139 ° 44 ′ 36.1 ″ E