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Hokusai is Azuke-Mitsui Memorial Museum

[Vickie] April 26, 2011 09:00

 My name is Vickie, who will be working as a tourism correspondent from this year.

The main haunting area is Nihonbashi. I borrowed the name Vickie from my favorite Senbikiya!

I will do my best to make Chuo-ku even more energetic, so thank you.

 

By the way, today I would like to introduce the Mitsui Memorial Museum.

I love visiting museums. What I was looking forward to with Taro Okamoto exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Sharaku of the National Museum was the Hokusai exhibition at the Mitsui Museum of Art.

Unfortunately, due to the effects of the earthquake, Hokusai and others in the Honolulu Museum of Art were unable to come to Japan and decided to cancel this time! The impact is surprising, isn't it?

Let's re-evaluate and enjoy the Mitsui Memorial Museum Collection Exhibition.

After all, this museum has a beautiful building itself! The Mitsui Main Building was designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 1998. The approach to the museum is set up in the adjacent Mitsui Tower, and the atrium where the light shines is so fascinating. I feel like I'm going back in time from Showa to the future.

The highlight of this time is the “Tofukumon-in entrance picture folding screen”, which will be the first appearance after the color correction (!?). Don't be reckoned with the exhibition of Hokusai's change. It is a very vivid folding screen suitable for the name of an important cultural property. The beautiful color of the red color. Please note that this becomes the display to 5/15 of the first half.

Every spring, the "Mitsui Family Hina" collection is also indispensable, but the wonderful thing about the Mitsui Museum of Art is that each of the works of art is very carefully exhibited, and it feels like you are visiting the Mitsui Family's home. It is recommended that you visit on weekdays and appreciate it carefully. And after the appreciation ... correspondent Ginzo is also recommended at Senbikiya, and be sure to enjoy mango curry!

By the way, when I asked the museum, the Hokusai exhibition will not be held this year in Tokyo, and it is undecided whether it will be held again next year or later. I'd like to see you someday.

 

2-1-1 Nihonbashi Muromachi Mitsui Memorial Museum 7F Mitsui Main Building http://www.mitsui-museum.jp/

 

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 There's a sign at the entrance.

 

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 Behind the Mitsui Main Building. From the left, the Bank of Japan, Mitsui Tower, and Mitsui Main Building. I feel the flow of the times.