Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art

The Hatakeyama Kinenkan (Japanese畠 山 记念 馆, " Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Arts ") is a private art museum in Minato, Tokyo. The museum houses a collection of utensils for the Japanese tea ceremony, which was compiled by the industrialist Issei Hatakeyama ( 1881-1971 ). The collection focuses on Chinese, Korean and Japanese porcelains and paintings, especially from the Muromachi period, the flower of the tea ceremony. Among the 1,300 exhibits are located next 32 Important cultural property also has six National Treasures ( Painting ) and Teaware by Sen no Rikyū and his student Furuta Oribe.

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Issei Hatakeyama, the founder of the company Ebara Saisakusho (荏 原 制作 所, about Ebara Factory) was born in 1881 in Kanazawa. He was a descendant of the daimyo family Hatakeyama from the province of Noto. He studied at the Imperial University of Tokyo engineering and founded after graduating in 1912, the predecessor company of Ebara works. Hatakeyama fabricated and sold in this work by his teacher Inokuchi Ariya (1856-1923) developed and named after this Inokuchi pump. Although businessman, Hatakeyama was considered a tea connoisseur and Noh. This fascination, especially for the Hosho School of Noh has shaped his passion for collecting antiques.

Hatakeyama was also Chairman of the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (発 明 协会, Hatsumei Kyōkai ); In 1960 he founded the Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology. The Hatakeyama Museum was four years later, opened in 1964 on the border between the boroughs and Minato, Shinagawa. In the Edo period was on the museum grounds a country house, which was the Shimazu clan in 1669 granted by the Edo shogunate. After that it was a native of Satsuma State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Terashima Munenori (1832-1893) as a residence.

In the museum there is also a replica of the entrance lobby of the Buddhist temple in Nara Hannya -ji, the Yukio Mishima was the inspiration for his novel After the Banquet.