Seikadobunko Art Museum

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Seikadobunko Art Museum

The Seikadōbunko Art Museum ( Japanese 静 嘉 堂 文庫 美術館 , Seikadōbunko bijutsukan) in Tokyo's Setagaya district preserves the cultural heritage of the Iwasaki family, who founded and ran the large Mitsubishi company for a long time.

Overview

The core of the collection was compiled by Iwasaki Yanosuke (岩崎 弥 之 助; 1851–1908), the 2nd President of the Mitsubishi Company. "Seikadō" was the name of his studio, which is derived from a word in the Chinese classic (詩 経, Shikyō). The collection was expanded by his son and 4th President Iwasaki Koyota (岩崎 小 弥 太; 1879–1945).

The collection includes 7  national treasures , 84  important cultural assets , approximately 200,000 valuable books (120,000 Chinese, 80,000 Japanese works) and 6,500 art treasures from East Asia.

When the interest of many Japanese in art shifted to the West during the Meiji period , Iwasaki Yanosuke began to counter this and began to build up his own collection from 1887. Koyota continued collecting, buying pictures, sculptures, old books, lacquerware and swords. He was particularly interested in Chinese porcelain, which gives the collection its own touch.

The first directors, the historians Shigno Yasutsugu (重 野 安 繹; 1827－1910) and Morohashi Tetsuji (1883－1982), contributed to the organization of the Bunko, which - as the name suggests - was originally a book collection . The collection was initially in the Iwasaki villa on Surugadai, later in an annex to the villa in the district of Takanawa, now called "Kaitōkaku" (開 東 閣).

In 1924, on the 17th anniversary of his father's death, Koyota had the current building built for his father by the English architect Josiah Conder, who worked in Japan, next to the mausoleum.

The museum shows a selection of objects and documents specific to a topic; there is no general permanent exhibition. The collection is divided into old documents, pictures, old maps, old depictions of battles, etc. a.

National treasures

  • "Wind and Rain" (風雨 山水 図). Ma Yuan (attributed) end of south. Song period, 13th century

  • Tawaraya Sotatsu : Scenes from the Genji monogatari : Sekiya (関 屋) / Miyotsukushi (澪 標) (6-fold screen pair).

  • Isolated segment of texts by Zen master: Master Zhichang.

  • Zhao Mengfu : Letter to Zhongfeng Mingben.

  • Extract from the history of Han Yamato.

Without pictures

  • Glazed and decorated bowl (曜 変 天 目 稲 葉天 目, Southern Song period / 12th to 13th centuries)
  • Japanese sword from the 13th century

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Seikadō Bunko . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1336.
  • Tokyoto hakubutsukan kyokai (Ed.): Seikadō Bunko. In: Tokyo no Hakubutsukan, 1990.

Web links

Commons : Seikadōbunko Art Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 35 ° 37 '22.3 "  N , 139 ° 37' 9.3"  E