Samurai Art Museum

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The Samurai Art Museum is a museum for East Asian art in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

history

The Samurai Art Museum opened in 2017. It is one of the few museums in the world that specializes in the art of the samurai .

The museum includes the private collection of the building contractor Peter Jannsen, which was brought together on the international art market over more than four decades and which is now considered one of the world's largest private collections on this subject. As a special museum, it complements the (currently stored) Museum of East Asian Art of the Berlin State Museums .

architecture

The museum is located in a hall with almost 400 m² of exhibition space in the basement of a residential complex for senior citizens. Characteristic is the square room, which receives daylight through a centrally placed round skylight and is also illuminated by spotlights. The objects are displayed in large glass cabinets along the walls. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum also houses a room for temporary exhibitions and a study collection.

Profile of the collection

The museum's collection includes around 700 objects. This includes around 40 complete armor , 200 helmets, 150 masks, 160 swords and numerous other evidence of the samurai culture from almost a millennium.

The oldest pieces in the collection go back to the Kofun period (300–538 AD). Most of the objects in the collection date from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (15th – 18th centuries). The top pieces in the collection are three samurai armor from the Kato clan. These come from the Edo period (1603–1868). Another focus is on the blades of well-known master blacksmiths of the Kamakura and Namboku-chō times, which roughly corresponds to the European High Middle Ages (11th-14th centuries).

literature

  • Claudia Fährenkemper: Samurai , 2019
  • Barbara Harding: The "Arts of Asia" Conversation with Peter Janssen of the Samurai Art Museum . In: Arts of Asia , July / August 2019: 22–32.
  • Eckhard Kremers: The Samurai Art Museum in Berlin . Interview with the collector Peter Janssen. (Photographs by Manfred M. Sackmann ) In: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift . New series No. 35 / spring 2018.
  • Martyna Lesniewska: Samurai Art Museum. The Janssen Collection . In: Museums Journal 2/2018: p. 33 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  5. ^ Eckhard Kremers: The Samurai Art Museum in Berlin. Interview with the collector Peter Janssen. (Photographs by Manfred-Michael Sackmann ) In: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift . New series No. 35 / spring 2018: p. 25 ff.
  6. ↑ [5] accessed September 21, 2019
  7. ↑ Martyna Lesniewska: Samurai Art Museum. The Janssen Collection . In: Museums Journal 2/2018: p. 33 ff.

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