KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
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Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Sen-oku Hakukokan
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Raku Museum
Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Nomura Art Museum
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
KyotoArt & CraftsŌyamazaki
Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Fujita Museum
Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Yuki Museum of Art
Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.
OsakaArt & CraftsIkeda
Itsuo Art Museum
The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.
OsakaArt & CraftsIzumi
Kuboso Memorial Museum
Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum
A sake brewer's collection of Asian antiquities, with a separate wing of Persian carpets.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.
HyogoArt & CraftsHimeji
Himeji City Museum of Art
An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.