Shōhaku Art Museum

Shōhaku Art Museum
松伯美術館

General information
Address 2-1-4 Tomigaoka
Town or city Nara, Nara Prefecture
Country Japan
Coordinates 34°42′36″N 135°44′50″E / 34.710004°N 135.747202°E / 34.710004; 135.747202Coordinates: 34°42′36″N 135°44′50″E / 34.710004°N 135.747202°E / 34.710004; 135.747202
Opened March 1994
Website
Official website

Shōhaku Art Museum (松伯美術館 Shōhaku Bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1994. It was established thanks to donations of artworks and the support of Kintetsu. The collection comprises paintings and sketches by Uemura Shōen, Uemura Shōkō (上村松篁), and Uemura Atsushi (上村淳之), and special exhibitions are staged to help promote the appreciation of Nihonga. The shō () element of the Museum's name is derived from the first character of the first two of these artists' given names, as well as from the pines in the garden of the former honorary chairman of Kintetsu, where the Museum now stands, while the haku () element comes from its tea house, known as Hakusentei (伯泉亭).[1][2]

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shōhaku Art Museum.
  1. 松伯美術館 [Shōhaku Art Museum] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. 美術館の紹介 [Introduction to the Museum] (in Japanese). Kintetsu. Retrieved 7 November 2015.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.