Meguro Museum of Art
Known for exhibitions about materials and technique - art seen from the side of making.
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Known for exhibitions about materials and technique - art seen from the side of making.
Holds the major surviving sections of the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls, shown just once a year.
Low pavilions in a park wood, with a deliberate policy of collecting self-taught artists.
For one of Japan's first professional women manga artists, showing her originals beside the art she collected.
Seiichi Shirai's masterwork: almost windowless, lit through an oval void at its centre.
Among Japan's largest ukiyo-e museums, hidden behind Harajuku, with a tatami-floored gallery.
Devoted to modern Nihonga; Gyoshu Hayami's moths circling a flame are shown only a few times a year.
A private porcelain museum that lines up one vessel type by date, so technique can be watched changing.
Holds one of Van Gogh's seven Sunflowers, moved in 2020 from a skyscraper's upper floors to its own building.
Founded by Kusama herself; entry is by timed ticket only, so each visitor meets the work almost alone.
The record of a bakery owner's salon that supported artists, centred on the sculptor Morie Ogiwara.
Devoted to illustration and popular imagery - printed pictures usually left out of art history, treated as the main line.
The first ward-run art museum in Tokyo, with two pillars: Edo Kano painting and international picture-book illustration.
Renowned for retrieving artists that art history had dropped - unusual ambition for a ward museum.
In the district where Hokusai spent most of his life; Kazuyo Sejima slit a mirrored aluminium block to let alleys through.
Japan's largest contemporary collection, with ceilings high enough for installations nothing else can take.
Coloured glass cased over clear, then cut away to leave the pattern - a craft born of Edo townsman culture.
Nationally known for its Edo painting exhibitions, as sharp on unknown painters as on famous eccentrics.
A public museum devoted entirely to prints - rare anywhere - with workshops where the techniques are demonstrated.
A private collection running unbroken from the Renaissance to the 20th century - rare in Japan.
An art university's museum out in the town, linking its research to the public.
A small museum on the seventh floor of a shopping building, with a room for Yozo Hamaguchi's colour mezzotints.
A venue narrowed to pictures and words, showing picture-book and manga originals with museum discipline.
A museum with about 4,000 items centered on combs and hairpins - lacquer, tortoiseshell, coral - and the techniques poured into hair ornaments.