Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
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One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.
Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.
A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.
Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.
A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.
In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.
A small municipal museum in the hills, centred on the painter Ikuma Arishima.
One of the world's major holdings of Odilon Redon, including his great sequences of black lithographs.
Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.
A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.
Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.
Collecting landscape painting East and West, with a Rodin wing of 32 works including the Gates of Hell.
No collection of its own; a gallery set inside a station-front commercial building, in the middle of the commute.
For the Living National Treasure of stencil dyeing, in a stone building that ranks among Seiichi Shirai's best.
Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.
Collects 20th-century art on one theme alone - the human figure; Japan's first museum devoted to that century.
A Buddhist wing and a modern wing, built on decades of surveying the Buddhist sculpture of the peninsula.
For Chohachi Irie, who modelled pictures in plaster with a trowel; plasterers came from all Japan to build the museum itself.
A private museum of Japanese swords, its lighting designed specifically to reveal the grain and temper line of a blade.
Built for a living painter; the world's largest holding of Bernard Buffet, in a building by Kiyonori Kikutake.