Yumeji Art Museum
In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
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In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
A museum centered on Bizen ware, ceramics and art, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.
For a sculptor who carved until he was 107, and who past a hundred bought thirty years' worth of timber.
Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.
For a painter of the Inland Sea in high-keyed colour, and the museum lets you watch him leave his teacher's manner behind.
Beside a designated scenic garden, and built around artists connected to Hiroshima and the crafts of Asia.
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
Unusual in Japan for collecting 20th-century Italian art, and standing next to the castle.
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
Born on this island and a survivor of the bomb; the museum runs from his boyhood sketches to his last large works.
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
In the birthplace of Kano Hogai, who pushed Nihonga into the modern era; the museum traces how he got there.
Two pillars: a painter of Siberian internment, and the photographer who took the famous portrait of the novelist Dazai.
A painter who rendered his Siberian captivity as 57 canvases in black and ochre alone, shown in his home village.
Collecting on three axes - the human figure, this province, and the present - centred on how the body was depicted in the 20th century.
A thousand Western masterpieces reproduced full size on ceramic panels said to last two millennia - including works long destroyed.
Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.
A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.
For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.
A columnless concrete shell shaped like a water drop; water seeps from the floor and moves through the day - work and building indistinguishable.