Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Nara Park · Nara
Address: 10-6 Noboriōji-chō, Nara 630-8213
Opened in March 1973 on the gift of Edo-period paintings, ukiyo-e and crafts collected by the costume historian and Nihonga painter Yoshikawa Kampō; its opening exhibition was devoted to Tomimoto Kenkichi. Later gifts include the Yura collection and the Ōhashi collection of 1950s–60s avant-garde art, and the museum keeps collecting Tomimoto's ceramics and work by artists linked to Nara, from the Kamakura period to today. Five minutes' walk east of Kintetsu Nara Station, exit 1.
Exhibitions
- Masterpieces of Modern Japanese-style Paintings — Special Feature: SHODA Kakuyu and UENAKA Chokusai — Nara Prefectural Museum of Art · Nara · –
- Commemorating New Acquisitions: The 140th Anniversary of Birth — Works of TOMIMOTO Kenkichi in the Showa Era — Nara Prefectural Museum of Art · Nara · –
- Traditional Culture Today, The World of Sumi Ink and Washi Paper — Sumi Ink Expression in Contemporary Art — Nara Prefectural Museum of Art · Nara · –