Kobe City Museum

The Kobe City Museum (Jap.神 戸 市立 博物馆, Kobe Shiritsu Hakubutsukan ) in the Mitte district of Kobe (Japan) since 1982, combines the Municipal Museum of Ancient Art and the Municipal Museum of Namban art. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building of 1935, the former branch of the Yokohama Kobe Shokin Ginko (English Yokohama Specie Bank), which later became Tōkyō Ginko ( engl. Bank of Tokyo).

The Collection

The current archaeological collection was (神 戸 市立 考古 馆, Kobe Shiritsu Kokokan ) built in 1969 originally as an archaeological museum in connection with the large bells Fund from the Yayoi period in Sakuragaoka near Kobe. The collection of Namban art - the art in Japan that deals with the foreigners in the country 1550-1640 - goes to the collection of businessman and collector Ikenaga Hajime (池 长 孟; 1891-1955 ) back, the front most recently as Kobe Namban Art Museum (神 戸 市立 南蛮 美术馆, Kobe Shiritsu Nanban Bijutsukan ) was housed in a separate building. 8000 old maps from around the world form another important collection. She goes to the collector Namba Matsutaro (南波松 太郎, 1894-1995 ) and the geographer Akioka Takejiro (秋冈 武 次郎; 1895-1975 ) back. The total holdings of the museum includes almost 39,000 objects.

"International Cultural Exchange " and " contacts and exchanges between Eastern and Western cultures " are the themes of the museum. The stock is shown as follows:

  • Ground floor Japan and other countries in the era of seclusion
  • The port of Hyogo Tsu in the Edo period
  • Opening the port for trade with foreign countries
  • Cultural exchange with East Asia
  • Development of regional culture
  • Special
  • Education and modernization in Japan
  • Special

National treasure

  • Bell Fund of Sakuragaoka, 1964. 14 bells, two of them with line drawings, seven spearheads.

Important Cultural Property (selection)

  • Folding screen " Mounted kings of the west " (西 王侯 骑马 図 屏风)
  • Folding screen pair (a ) Four cities (Lisbon, Seville, Rome, Constantinople Opel ) and residents ( b ) World Map (四 都 図·世界 図 屏风)
  • Folding screen couple strangers in the land ( Kanō Naizen, 1570-1616 ) (南蛮 人 渡 来 図(南蛮 屏风) )
  • Portrait of Oda Nobunaga
  • Folding screen " Seven Mile beach in Sagami Province " by Shiba Kokan (相 州 镰仓 七里 浜 図 屏风)
  • Portrait of Francesco Xavier

Gallery

Francesco Xavier

Folding screen "Four Cities ", from Lisbon and Seville

Dutch

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ferdinand Verbiest Nanban art
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