MOA Museum of Art
The MOA Museum of Art (Japanese美术馆MOA, MOA Bijutsukan, Eng. MOA Museum of Art) in Atami ( Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) has an important collection of works from all East Asian art eras.
Background
The founder of the new religious movement Sekai Kyusei - kyō (世界 救世 教, dt " world religion of salvation " ), Mokichi Okada (冈 田茂吉) was of the opinion that great art can pacify the soul of man. He therefore led his collection in 1952 on a foundation that made them available to the public. This happened first in Hakone Gora in the Museum Hakone Bijutsukan. 1957, followed by the construction of Atami Bijutsukan, which was then replaced 25 years later. It was not satisfied with a replacement at the old place, but built on a hill overlooking Atami a new building in considerable size. The inauguration took place on 1 November 1982 the 100th Birthday Okada.
The museum
The lower entrance to the museum is located on the slope of a hill overlooking Atami. If the visitor passes him, he drives with three long escalators high up in an underground hall. This is a circular building of 10 m height and 20 m in diameter, in the example Laser light games can be shown. Then it continues with stairs or escalators, which end in the ground floor or equal to the second floor. Now it has been overcome by the input from a height of 50 m and is located 260 meters above the sea. In front of the large windows, the Sagami Bay spreads deep down from the nearby island Hatsushima. The museum is surrounded by a garden, is watching in the prominent position "King and Queen ", a large sculpture by Henry Moore. The building complex comprises in addition to the exhibition halls ( 2,600 m²), a Noh stage and a " golden tea room " (黄金 の 茶室, Ogon no chashitsu ) as a reconstruction of the magnificent Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tea house with gold dishes. Further, there are shops, restaurants, and large and small tea houses in the garden.
The Collection
The collection includes Chinese and Japanese painting, calligraphy, ceramics and sculpture; Chinese bronzes; Japanese lacquer ware, metal objects and prints. The collection also includes a stone Gandhara Bodhisattva, two landscapes by Monet, a portrait that Rembrandt is attributed and the aforementioned sculpture of Moore. Among the Chinese paintings to mention is that of the Tang Dynasty from the Turfan area, a lady with attendant under a tree. From the Song Dynasty, there are two hanging scrolls, attributed to Ma Yuan.
The oldest Japanese painting dates from the Nara period, it is a part of the Inga - Sutra (因果 経). A copy of the Hokke Sutra (法 华 経) is provided with an illustrated end. Buddhist figures painting comes mainly from the Kamakura period. From the Muromachi period comes a portrait of the Zen priest Ikkyu. The painter Kaiho Yusho (1533-1615) is represented by good works. From the beginning of the Edo period, we find a self-portrait and other work of Iwasa Matabe ( 1578-1650 ). The time of the first meeting of Japan with European art at the time of missionary work in 1600, is represented by a folding screen pair that represents western nobles in a landscape. The control screen pair Ogata Kōrin's " Red and White Plum " is a national treasure. You can see the couple but only in February during the plum blossom, which then continues in the great outdoors in front of the museum.
There is a large collection of ukiyo -e artists with Kaiketsudō Ando, Torii Kiyonobu, Miyagawa Choshun, Suzuki Harunobu, Hokusai, Utamaro, Katsugawa Shunshō, Sharaku, Hiroshige is watching. Of the painters of the 20th century, the museum has paintings in Nihonga style of Yokoyama Taikan, Maeda and Takeuchi Seison Seihō.
The Chinese calligraphy is represented, among others by the sheet with two large characters ,云 归, painted by the song priest Wu Zhun (无 准) and by various calligraphy by masters of the Yuan period. To the great collection of Japanese calligraphy includes the albums titled Kambokujō with documents from the 7th to 14th century. Further, calligraphy found on a colored background ( Shikishi ) from the late Heian period, documents the priest Daitō Kokushi ( Shuho Myōchō ) and Musō Kokushi ( Musō Soseki ) of the Kamakura period in the collection.
Among the Chinese sculptures to find a Kannon of the Sui - time and two gilt-bronze statues, one of the Sui period, the other from the Tang period. The museum has a number of bronze mirrors, from the time of the Warring States period to the Tang period. Japan is represented by small Buddhist bronze figures from the Asuka and Nara period. From the Kamakura period, the sculpture of a seated Amida Nyorai with two smaller companions came from.
Chinese bronzes and ceramics span a wide period of Chinese culture. To collection Japanese ceramics are five Momoyama Oribe, a tea bowl of Chojiro, the founder of raku ceramics, another of Honami Kōetsu that he did for the tea master Kobori Enshū, one of Nin'ami Dōhachi. Showpiece is the tea tray decorated with Wisterien of Ninsei. There are lacquer ware from the Kamakura and Muromachi period, also a box that Kōetsu is attributed. Among the metal objects are found mainly Buddhist ritual devices of the Heian and Kamakura period.
National Treasures
- Tea container with Wisterienblüten (色 絵 藤 花 文 茶壶, Iroe fujihana - mon Chatsubo ) of Nonomura Ninsei (野 々 村 仁 清), Edo period
- Folding screen pair with red and white plum (红白 梅 図 屏风, Kōhakubai -to byobu ) of Ogata Kōrin
- Collection of documents (手 鉴「手 鉴 翰墨 城」 ) Collection of documents (手 鉴「手 鉴 翰墨 城」姿 図, Tekagami " Kambokujō " sugata -to ), Nara Muromachi period
- Collection of documents (手 鉴「手 鉴 翰墨 城」春游, Tekagami " Kambokujō " shun'yū ), Heian period ( Fujiwara no Yukinari )
- Collection of documents (手 鉴「手 鉴 翰墨 城」高 野 切, Tekagami " Kambokujō " Kōya - kiri ), Heian period ( Ki no Tsurayuki attributed )
More than 50 additional objects are classified as "Important Cultural Property " by the state.
Gallery
From Inga Sutra
Folding screen with western motifs (detail)
Girl at the loom ( Harunobu )