Ohara Museum of Art
Japan's first museum of Western art, built on paintings a Kurashiki industrialist sent his own painter to Europe to buy.
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Japan's first museum of Western art, built on paintings a Kurashiki industrialist sent his own painter to Europe to buy.
Built around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.
Built on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.
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.