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Hokusai is Ozuke - Mitsui Memorial Museum -

[Vickie] 09:00 on April 26, 2011

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

The main haunting place is Nihonbashi. I borrowed the name Vickie from my favorite Sembikiya!

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

 

By the way, today we will show you the Mitsui Memorial Museum.

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

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

Let's take a look back and enjoy the "Mitsui Memorial Museum Collection Exhibition".

The museum itself is beautiful! 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 enchanted. I feel like I'm going back in time from Showa to the future.

The highlight of this time is the "Tofukumonin entrance drawing folding screen", which will be the first appearance after the color change (!?). Don't underestimate the change of Hokusai. It is a very vivid folding screen suitable for the name of an important cultural property. Beautiful thing with red color. Please note that this becomes the display to 5/15 of the first half.

Every spring, the "Mitsui Family's Hina-sama" collection is also indispensable, but the wonderful thing about the Mitsui Museum of Art is that each of the works of art are displayed very carefully, making it feel like you are visiting the Mitsui Family's home. It is recommended to visit on weekdays and appreciate it carefully. And after the appreciation ... The correspondent, Ginzo, is also recommended by Sembikiya, 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 after next year. I'd like to see you someday.

 

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

 

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 There is a sign of notice at the entrance

 

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 In the back of the Mitsui Main Building. From left, Bank of Japan, Mitsui Tower, Mitsui Main Building. I feel the flow of time.