Yamatane Art Museum

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Hayami Gyoshū:
Dance in the Flames

The Yamatane Art Museum ( Japanese 山 種 美術館 , Yamatane Bijutsukan ) is a private museum for fine arts in Tokyo with a focus on Nihonga .

The Yamatane Museum goes back to the securities dealer Yamazaki Taneji ( 山崎 種 二 ; 1893–1983). Yamazaki was friends with Yokoyama Taikan , collected Nihonga art, which he expected to increase in value. In 1966 he made his collection available to the public under the then company name of Yamatane. The collection was initially shown near the company's headquarters in the Kabutochō banking district . Since 2007, the collection has been located in Hiroo, Shibuya District , where it is more easily accessible. The collection has important works of Japanese painting from the Meiji , Taishō and Shōwa periods ( Takeuchi Seihō , Uemura Shōen , Murakami Kagaku , Yokoyama Taikan, Okumura Togyū ).

The collection of works by Hayami Gyoshū, who died early, is particularly extensive . In 1976 the museum acquired 105 pictures from the Ataka collection, so that it now has a total of 120 works by the artist, including the two shown here, “Dance in the Flames” ( 炎 舞 , Embu ) and “Famous Camellia Losing Flowers “( 名 樹 散 椿 , Meiju chiritsubaki ). Both are registered as an Important Cultural Property of Japan .

But there are also works from the Edo period , such as B. the screen of the late Rimpa School painter , Sakai Hōitsu .

Significant works

  • Sakai: grasses, quail, and autumn moon
    before 1828

  • Murakami: Act 1920

  • Takeuchi: Spotted Cat 1924

  • Hayami: Camellia 1929

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Yamatane" is made up of the first character of the surname and the first name of the company founder.

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Coordinates: 35 ° 39 ′ 11.5 "  N , 139 ° 42 ′ 49.3"  E