Nezu-Museum

The Nezu Museum (Japanese根 津 美术馆, Nezu Bijutsukan ) is a private art museum in the pre-modern period in Minato, Tokyo. It houses a private museum for an unusually large collection of more than 7400 Asian and Japanese art treasures, which date back to the art collector and industrialist Nezu Kaichirō ( 1860-1940 ). Nezu Kaichirō, who served as president of the railroad company Tōbu tetsudō, bought the land on which the museum is still today in 1906. His son Nezu Kaichirō II established a foundation in 1940 and was designed by architect Kenji Imai design the original museum building. The museum first opened in 1941 its doors to the public. Current director of the museum is the grandson of the founder, Koichi Nezu.

Survey

At the time of opening, the museum was home to 4643 plants. By a bomb attack in 1945, the Museum were badly damaged and burned a large number of art treasures. In 1954, the museum was reopened after the completion of the reconstruction. 1964, the building was extended and expanded to include additional exhibition space on the occasion of the 50th anniversary in 1991 by Kengo Kuma. Also, the extensive new construction from 2006 to 2009, which were taken into account the seismic safety of the building carried out under its responsibility. Through a variety of donations, the Nezu Museum in 2009 was able to again come up with 6874 levels.

Among the exhibited works there is an unusually high number of excellent and excellent works mainly from China, Japan and Korea; including seven National Treasures of Japan, 87 Important Cultural Property and 96 Important Art objects (重要 美术品).

Building Overview

Address of the museum: 6-5-1 Minami Aoyama, Minato- ku, Tokyo 107-0062

Main focus

Archaeological finds and sculptures

  • Set of three ritual vessels He (盉), in Taotie Design (饕餮Pinyin: taotie, Japanese Tōtetsu ), Shang Dynasty (12th-13th century), height 71.2 to 73 cm, ( Important Cultural Property )
  • Bronze Wine Vessel Zun, in taotie design, Shang dynasty (12th-13th century), height 54 cm, ( Important Cultural Property )
  • A rare bronze wine vessel Zun, in the form of two sheep, Shang Dynasty (12th-13th century), height 45.4 cm, diameter has 14.9 to 18.4 cm, ( Important Cultural Property ), only the British Museum a similar piece of Fund
  • Ritual bronze vessel Yi (匜), rectangular, Kuifeng design, Zhou Dynasty (1000 BC), height 26.1 cm, ( Important Cultural Property )

Painting

As national treasures are registered:

  • Hanging scroll Nachi Waterfall, anonymous, Kamakura period
  • Folding screen couple Irises, Ogata Kōrin
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