Kobe City Museum

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Kobe City Museum; formerly the Kobe branch of the Bank of Tokyo (1935)
Mounted kings of the west, screen
Kanō Naizen: right screen with Portuguese
Chinese map of the world (1674) after Verbiest , 8 hanging scrolls

The Kobe City Museum ( Japanese 神 戸 市立 博物館 , Kobe shiritsu hakubutsukan ) in the Mitte district of Kobe (Japan) has united the City Museum of Ancient Art and the City Museum of Namban Art since 1982 . The museum is housed in a neoclassical building from 1935, the former Kobe branch of Yokohama Shōkin Ginkō (English Yokohama Specie Bank ), the later Tōkyō Ginkō (English Bank of Tokyo ).

The collection

The current archaeological collection was originally built in 1969 as an archaeological museum ( 神 戸 市立 考古 館 , Kobe shiritsu kōkokan ) in connection with the large bell find from the Yayoi period in Sakuragaoka near Kobe. The collection with Namban art - the art in Japan that deals with the foreigners in the country between 1550 and 1640 - goes back to the collection of the entrepreneur and collector Ikenaga Hajime ( 池 長 孟 ; 1891–1955), which was last known as Kobe Namban Art Museum ( 神 戸 市立 南蛮 美術館 , Kobe shiritsu Namban bijutsukan ) was housed in its own building. 8000 old maps from all over the world form another important collection. It goes back to the collector Namba Matsutarō ( 南波松 太郎 ; 1894–1995) and the geographer Akioka Takejirō ( 秋岡 武 次郎 ; 1895–1975). The museum's total inventory includes almost 39,000 objects.

“International cultural exchange” and “Contacts and exchange between Eastern and Western cultures” are the themes of the museum. The inventory is shown as follows:

  • ground floor
    • Japan and other countries in the age of closure
    • The port of Hyogo-Tsu in the Edo period
    • Opening of the port to foreign trade
  • First floor
    • Cultural exchange with East Asia
    • Development of regional culture
    • Special exhibitions
  • Second floor
    • Enlightenment and modernization in Japan
    • Special exhibitions

National treasure

  • Bells found by Sakuragaoka, 1964. 14 bells, two with line drawings, seven lance tips.

Important cultural assets (selection)

  • Screen "Mounted Kings of the West" ( 西 王侯 騎馬 図 屏風 )
  • Screen pair (a) Four cities (Lisbon, Seville, Rome, Constantinople) and residents (b) World map ( 四 都 図 ・ 世界 図 屏風 )
  • Screen pair foreigners in the country (Kanō Naizen, 1570-1616) ( 南蛮 人 渡 来 図 (南蛮 屏風) )
  • Portrait of Oda Nobunaga
  • Screen "Seven Mile Beach in Sagami Province " by Shiba Kōkan ( 相 州 鎌倉 七里 浜 図 屏風 )
  • Portrait of Francesco Xavier

gallery

  • Oda Nobunaga (1583)

  • Francesco Xavier

  • Screen "Four Cities", from it Lisbon and Seville

  • Dutch

  • Shiba Kōkan: Seven Mile Beach

literature

  • Museum leaflet
  • Kobe City Museum. In: Roberts' Guide to Japanese Museums . Simul Press, 1987, ISBN 4-377-50737-0 .

Catalogs and special exhibitions of the museum (selection)

  • 南蛮 見聞 展 - A Record of Encounter with the Namban Culture. 1992.
  • 館 蔵 名品 図 碌 - Masterpieces of Kobe City Museum. 1985.
  • 館 蔵 名品 図 碌 - Pieces par excellence from Kobe City Museum's collection. 1984.
  • 眼鏡 絵 と 東海 道 拾 三次 展 - Peep box pictures and Tōkaidō . 1983.
  • 古 地 図 に み る 世界 と 日本 - The world and Japan as seen on ancient maps. 1983.

Web links

Commons : Kobe City Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 34 ° 41 ′ 14 "  N , 135 ° 11 ′ 35"  E