Adachi Museum of Art

The Adachi Museum of Art (Japanese足 立 美术馆, Adachi Bijutsukan ) is a private museum on the outskirts of Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture with a focus on contemporary art. It is surrounded by a large Japanese garden.

The Collection

The museum was founded in 1970 by entrepreneur Zenko Adachi (足 立 全 康, 1899-1990 ) built in the area from which he came. His collection has its focus in the painting of Nihonga direction, with both the school Okakura Tenshin and to the Kyoto School are represented with important works. Inter alia The reacquisition of the collection of Toshio Kitazawa (1917-1997) to the museum inventory beigetragen.Yokoyama Taikan, with its images Adachi 1948 in Osaka came in contact with and fascinated him throughout life, he even dedicated a whole building. In addition, he has performed the works of Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942), Kawai Gyokudo (1873-1957), Matsumura Shoen (1875-1949), Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945), Murakami Kagaku (1888-1939), Hayami Gyoshū (1894 -1935 ), Itō Shinsui ( 1898-1972 ), and other painters collected. There are also ink drawings of the last painter in Nanga - style Tomioka Tessai, Pictures for Kids by Toshio Suzuki and wood sculptures by Hirakushi Denchu ​​(1872-1979) to be seen. Munakata Shiko is his series of "ten great disciples of Shaka " (釈 迦 十大 弟子, Shaka jū daideshi ) represented.

The ceramic collection, which is also dedicated its own building, contains valuable pieces of Kitaoji Rosanjin (1893-1959), Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), among others

The Garden

The museum is surrounded by a large Japanese garden (about 42,000 m²) surrounded the classically the heights in the background includes a " borrowed landscape " with. Very modern is the merging of different garden types into an overall experience. So you see the transformation garden, but then also a very large gravel garden ( Kare -san- sui ), carefully cut bushes next to untreated green. Rocks belong to the garden, even a high waterfall is visible on the edge. Garden and Museum are related to each other. So there are carefully planned narrow window in the museum, whose Durchblick image looks like on a hanging scroll or horizontal scroll.

The teahouse in the garden is a copy of the Kobori Enshū (1579-1647) built the teahouse Shokin file (松 琴 亭) of the Katsura villa and has 15 master of Ura Valley School, Sen Hanso Sōshitsu, the name Juryū -an (寿 立 庵). It is a place of tranquility in the otherwise bustling garden.

Teahouse Juryū - on

Literature of the museum

• Leaflet to the museum.
• Leaflet to the garden.
• Adachi Bijutsukan. Nihon files to kindai bijutsu. 213 S. 1992.