Museum of Japanese Art

The entrance to the Yamato Bunkakan museum

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Museum of Japanese Art (大和文華館, Yamato bunkakan^?) is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara established in 1960^[1] to preserve and display the private collection of the Kintetsu Corporation (Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd.).^[2]

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.^[1] The founding director in 1960 was art historian Yukio Yashiro.^[3]

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^?).^[4]

See also

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

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Martin, John et al. (1993). Nara: a Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Capital, p. 139.
2. ^ Danilov, Victor J. (1992). A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers, p. 161.
3. ^ vaLibri: Sandro Bottecelli by Yuko Yashiro
4. ^ Museum Yamatobunkakan: Nezame monogatari, scene from handscroll

References

• Danilov, Victor J. (1992). A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers. New York: Greenwood Press. 10-ISBN 0-313-27657-9/13-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. 10-ISBN 0-804-81914-9/13-ISBN 978-0-804-81914-5; OCLC 30370751

External links

• Museum Yamatobunkakan website