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.
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On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.
Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.
Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.
Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.
The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.
Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.