Ninagawa Noritane

Ninagawa Noritane, 1879

Ninagawa Noritane ( Japanese 蜷 川 式 胤 ; * June 18, 1835 ( traditional : Tempō 6/5/23), † August 21, 1882 ) was a Japanese civil servant, art historian , archaeologist and art collector .

His father ( 子 賢 ) was an official at the Tō-ji temple . Ninagawa Noritane has held various senior positions in the Ministries of Home Affairs , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education of the young Meiji government . He was involved in various innovations, especially on the cultural level of the time. Ninagawa was entrusted , among other things, with the investigation of the Shōsōin , the treasury of the Buddhist Tōdai-ji . At his request, Japanese national museums were founded in Tokyo and Kyoto in the sixth year of the Meiji government . Ninagawa himself ran three smaller museums, two on Japanese ceramics and one with documents. All museums were also frequently visited by foreign visitors, including Edward S. Morse , Edoardo Chiossone and Heinrich von Siebold . Various books were produced on his private press, which were also sold abroad and were intended to promote Japanese culture. For this purpose, he also gave away parts of his collections to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig . His son Ninagawa Teiichi also became an art historian, while his grandson Ninagawa Akira , like his ancestors, devoted himself to art history and founded the Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum , which he named after his ancestors.

literature

• The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum. Greek Etruscan and Roman Antiquities. Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0625-3 , p. 7.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 皆川 完 一 : 蜷 川 式 胤 . In: Asahi Shimbun- sha (ed.): 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 . Tokyo 1994 ( kotobank.jp ).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ninagawa is the family name, Noritane the first name.