Mitsui Art Museum

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The museum is on the top floor

The Mitsui Art Museum ( Japanese 三井 記念 美術館 , Mitsui Kinen Bijutsukan ) in Tokyo shows arts and crafts owned by the Mitsui family .

Overview

The Mitsui family of entrepreneurs, which had already achieved prosperity in the Edo period , branched out over the course of its 300-year history, so that today there are six main branches and five secondary branches. A building for the collection, the "Mitsui Bunko" in Shinagawa, was built in 1918 for the family documents and other documents . The collection was later moved to the Nakano district . A separate building, the "Mitsui-Bunko Annex", was built next to the Bunko in 1985 for the arts and crafts treasures of the Kita-Mitsui, Shinmachi-Mitsui and Minami-Mitsui. Visiting the collection for study purposes is possible after registration.

Since 2005, the collection has been shown in changing exhibitions in the city center (Nihonbashi), using one floor in the Mitsui Group's headquarters.

National treasures

  • Pair of screens with pine trees in winter ( 雪松 図 , Sesshō zu ) by Maruyama Ōkyo .
  • Shino tea bowl by U no Hanagaki ( 卯 花墻 ).　
  • Short sword, attributed to Hyūga Masamune ( 日 向 正宗 ).
  • Short sword, attributed to Tokuzenin Sadamune ( 徳 善 院 貞 宗 ). 14th Century.
  • Document from Fujiwara no Sadaie ( 藤原 定 家 ), 1201.
  • Inscribed copper plates as grave goods ( 銅製 船 氏 王後 墓誌 , Dōsei funashi ogoboshi ), Kofun period.

The museum also owns 20 “ important cultural assets ”.

gallery

  • Notes from Fujiwara no Sadaie

  • Jurakudai screen (detail)

  • Snow on pines , left screen

  • Snow on pines , right screen

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jurakudai ( 聚 楽 第 ) was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's palace in Kyoto.

literature

  • Mitsui Bunko (Ed.): Bunko annai , 1981. 8 pp.
  • Mitsui Bunko (Ed.): Mitsui Bunko Bekkan , 1985. (leaflet)
  • Mitsui Bunko (Ed.): Mitsui bunko. Enkaku to riyo no tebiki. , 1988. 111 pp.

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Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′ 10.8 ″  N , 139 ° 46 ′ 23 ″  E