Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
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Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.