Museum of Japanese Art

The Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan (大和文華館, Yamato bunkakan) is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara.[1]

The entrance to the Museum Yamato Bunkakan

The museum was established in 1960[2] to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation (named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. till June 27, 2003).[3]

A house, trees with white blossoms and people.

Collection

Part of a house and garden.

This museum of Asian art has holdings of more than twenty thousand objects of sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, paintings, prints, textiles and calligraphy. The museum features a program of regularly changing exhibitions.[2] The founding director in 1960 was art historian Yukio Yashiro.[4]

National treasures

Two national treasures in the collection are illustrative scenes from Nezame Monogatari Emaki (紙本著色寝覚物語絵巻, shihon choshoku nezame monogatari emaki).[5]

See also

• List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings)
• Chinese Piling paintings

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.
2. Martin, John et al. (1993). Nara: a Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Capital, p. 139.
3. Danilov, Victor J. (1992). A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers, p. 161.
4. vaLibri: Sandro Bottecelli by Yuko Yashiro Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
5. Museum Yamatobunkakan: Nezame monogatari, scene from handscroll Archived 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine

References

• Danilov, Victor J. (1992). A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27657-6; OCLC 24212293
• Martin, John H, and Phyllis G Martin. (1993). Nara: a Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Capital. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle. ISBN 978-0-804-81914-5; OCLC 30370751

External links

• About the Museum Yamato Bunkakan