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- Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art - Houses collections illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the late 19th century to the present.
www-art.aac.pref.aichi.jp
- DNP Gallery - Information on three graphic arts museums: the Ginza Graphic Gallery of Tokyo, the DDD of Osaka, and the Center for Contemporary Graphic Art of Fukushima.
www.dnp.co.jp/gallery/contents_e.html
- Henry Miller Museum of Art - Site for museum in Nagano, Japan that displays expressionistic watercolors from the world-renowned author.
www.ablegroup.com/henry/henry1.html
- Higashikawa Culture Gallery - Museum in a Hokkaido town which calls itself the ''Photo Town''. Specializes in sculpture and, of course, photography. Has an unusual feature: a ''Civilians' Corner'', which presents constantly changing exhibits of local residents' work.
town.higashikawa.hokkaido.jp/en/gallery/index.htm
- Hiroshima Museum of Art - Mostly paintings. French painting, from the French Impressionists to the present, and Japanese works from the Meiji era to contemporary works. (Eng/Jpn)
www.mighty.co.jp/museum
- Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art - 20th century art, with an emphasis on works by Hyogo artists.
www.artm.pref.hyogo.jp
- Itami City Museum of Art (Hyogo) - Satire and humor. Caricature prints, sculpture and paintings by Honore Daumier, William Hogarth, James Gillray, George Bigot, James Ensor, Kathe Kollwitz, Raoul Dufy, and contemporary American and Japanese artists.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/itami/itami-e.html
- Japanese Museums - Duke University links, organized by type and location.
www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/museums.htm
- Kaga Museum Guide - Descriptive list of museums in this region of Ishikawa Prefecture.
www.nsknet.or.jp/ishikawa/e_point/p_kaga/peag-reh/peag-reh.htm#kengaku
- Kanazawa Museum Guide - Descriptive list of museums in this area of Ishikawa Prefecture.
www.nsknet.or.jp/ishikawa/e_point/p_kana/pean-reh/pean-reh.htm#hakubutu
- Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art - Collection includes 17th century Japanese screens, French Impressionists, Kandinsky, and Stella's mixed media works. Illustrated samples from the various collections.
www.dic.co.jp/museum/index-e.html
- Kawasaki City Museum - Emphasizes the use of modern media technology to record, research and present the art of the past.
home.catv.ne.jp/hh/kcm
- Kyoto National Museum - Ceramics, sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, metalwork, more. The masterworks section contains both good enlargements and good explanatory text.
www.kyohaku.go.jp
- Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art - Located in Kagawa Prefecture. Includes an online gallery with about 100 of Inokuma's works.
web.infoweb.ne.jp/MIMOCA/index_e.html
- Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo - International collection of modern and contemporary art.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/meguro/meguro-e.html
- Mie Prefectural Art Museum - Japanese and European art from the Meji period to the present. Several samples from the collection, with enlargements.
www.u-net.or.jp/~miekenbi/E_miekenbi.htm
- Miho Museum - Shiga Prefecture. Housed in a building designed by I. M. Pei, the Miho collects and exhibits Japanese and international art, including a large collection of lacquerware.
www.miho.or.jp
- Museum Information Japan - List of Japanese museums by area. States when a site is in Japanese only, but some of the other pages contain much more Japanese text than English.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/icc-e.html
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo - Opened in 1995. Art of the last 50 years. Interesting photos of the building itself; only a few pics from the exhibits, and the text for those is Japanese.
www.mot-art-museum.jp/eng/index-e.html
- Nezu Institute of Fine Arts - Includes paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, metal, wood, and Buddhist art.
www.nezu-muse.or.jp/index_e.html
- NMWA - The National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo) - European paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, from the 14th through the 20th centuries. Illustrated samples from the collections.
www.nmwa.go.jp
- Noto Museum Guide - Descriptive list of museums on the Noto Penninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture.
www.nsknet.or.jp/ishikawa/e_point/p_noto/peot-reh/peot-reh.htm#hakubutu
- Saitama Museum of Contemporary Art (Urawa-shi) - Contemporary art museum. Includes information on exhibits and educational activities.
www.saitama-j.or.jp/~momas
- Sakura City Museum of Contemporary Art - Modern, as well as contporary, art, mostly from the Chiba area. Occasional exhibits of works from other parts of the world.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/sakura/sakura-e.html
- Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art - The museum's core collection is comprised of the works of Seiji Togo, a noted Japanese artist. Togo donated some 200 of his own works to the museum, along with his collection of over 250 works by other Japanese and foreign artists.
www.sompo-japan.co.jp/museum
- Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo) - From the prehistoric to the contemporary, with an emphasis on works with an element of naivete. The Mukai Junkichi Annex celebrates the life and work of a 20th century painter whose main passion was recording the thatched roof farmhouses of Japan.
www.setagayaartmuseum.or.jp/main_e.htm
- Shiseido Art House (Chubu) - Collections include Shiseido advertising posters, modern Japanese painting and sculpture, and 20th century Japanese crafts. Most of the crafts illustrated were created by ''Living National Treasures''.
www.shiseido.co.jp/e/e9710arh/html/index.htm
- Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art - Paintings and sculptures, European as well as Japanese, mostly 19th and 20th century. The Rodin wing contains pre- and post-Rodin works, as well as a major collection of Rodin.
www.spmoa.shizuoka.shizuoka.jp/tope.html
- Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography - Offers several black and white photos from the collection, as well as 11 color shots of the museum itself.
www.kishimoto.net/site/page/ueda/english
- Shunsen Art Museum (Kushigata-Town Yamanashi) - Collection of the works and documents of Shunsen Natori, a native artist known as the last postwar master of kabuki ukiyoe woodblock prints, along with works by other print makers. Images from the collection, with explanatory text.
www.sannichi-ybs.co.jp/syunsene.html
- Suntory Museum Tempozan (Osaka) -
www.suntory.co.jp/culture/smt/index1.html
- Takaoka Art Museum (Toyama) - Traditional and contemporary art and crafts, with an emphasis on local works.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/takaoka/takaoka-e.html
- The Clark Center for Japanese Art - Collection of Japanese paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts.
www.shermanleeinstitute.org
- The Gotoh Museum - Premodern art from Japan, China and Korea. Located in Tokyo.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/gotoh/gotoh-e.html
- The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum - Located in Matsumoto City, in Nagano, showcasing the collection of the Sakai family over several generations. Images and info.
www.cjn.or.jp/ukiyo-e/index.html
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu - Mostly 20th century works with an emphasis on art which has some connection with Gifu, but presents exhibitions with international themes and earlier dates. Examples of past exhibits illustrated.
www.pref.gifu.jp/s27213/web_english/index_e.html
- The National Museum of Art, Osaka - Exhibits show the development of Japanese art, without restriction of time periods or regional divisions, in relation to the rest of the world. Permanent exhibits include fine collection of contemporary Japanese art.
www.nmao.go.jp/eng/e_index.html
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto - 20th century paintings and crafts, with an emphasis on Japanese work, particularly of the Kansai region.
www.momak.go.jp
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - Japan's first national art museum includes the collection and preservation of works of art, craft, and film as well as of related materials; surveys and research on these works; and exhibitions and screenings organized for the public.
www.momat.go.jp
- The Niigata Prefectual Museum of Modern Art (Nagaoka) - Features permanent exhibits of modern Asian art as well as admissions and events information.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/niigata/niigata-e.html
- The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art - Japanese and international art, with an emphasis on artists connected with Okayama.
www.dnp.co.jp/museum/okayama/okayama-e.html
- The Tokugawa Art Museum (Nagoya) - Collection based on the personal holdings of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family (furniture, armor, swords, fine art, and the items of daily life). Artifacts are displayed in galleries which reconstruct their original settings in order to accord with the importance of the sense of placement in Japanese aesthetics.
www.cjn.or.jp/tokugawa/index.html
- Tokyo Station Gallery - Current exhibit (through May 16th): twentieth century European and American still-life paintings. Illustrated examples from the exhibition.
www.ejrcf.or.jp/gallery/index_en.html
- Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum - Paintings and sculptures by artists of the Yamaguchi area.
www.pref.yamaguchi.jp/e4yamart.htm
- Yokohama Museum of Art - Specializes in modern and contemporary arts, including photography, with an emphasis on works connected with Yokohama in some way.
www.city.yokohama.jp/yhspot/art-e.html
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