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Excursion Report: Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
(DIC Corporation: DIC Corporation: DIC Corporation; hereinafter DIC Corporation) is the world's leading chemical manufacturer in printing inks, organic pigments, and PPS compounds. Founded in 1908 in the manufacture and sale of printing inks, the former name is Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Co.
DIC Co., Ltd. is headquartered next to two Takashimaya Nihonbashi stores facing Chuo-dori, and its address is Nihonbashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, and is one of Chuo-ku's leading companies. Recently, Riho Yoshioka's commercial has been broadcast on TV, and I think it is a company that can be felt close to us.
The DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum opened in 1990 on the premises of the Research Institute in Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture, as a facility for publicizing works of art collected by DIC with related companies. This time, I would like to report on the excursion.
Founder Katsumi Kawamura (1905-1999) was the second president of the founder of Dainippon Ink and Chemicals (former name of DIC) in the Showa era after World War II.
It was in the early 1970s that embraced the concept of an art museum and began full-scale collection of works by contemporary artists who had not yet been widely introduced, as well as contemporary American paintings that began to be evaluated in Western Europe at the time. It is said that the collection of 20th century art, which was rarely seen in Japan, was enhanced.
Characteristics of the Collection
The collection includes works of a wide range of genres, from portraits by Rembrandt in the 17th century, paintings by impressionist such as Monet and Renoir to modern Western art such as Picasso and Chagall, and American art in the late 20th century.
For more information, please visit the DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum website below.
One of the collections, Rembrandt's "A man wearing a wide brim cap" is displayed in an independent corner instead of being displayed in order to give visitors a sense of the methods and tastes of different times from modern Western paintings since the 19th century.
To commemorate the visit, I purchased "Rembrandt van Rain" Man with a wide brim cap "".
Garden and Restaurant
The DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum is located in a green garden of about 30,000 tsubo that makes use of the terrain of satoyama. The park has a natural walking path through the forest and a lawn open space, centered on a pond where swans play, and outdoor sculptures. Is also installed.
Long before the construction of the museum, an environment where you can stroll comfortably throughout the four seasons while protecting the land with trees that grow naturally and the creatures living there.
After the appreciation at the museum, we had lunch at the adjacent restaurant "Belvedere".
As the name of the restaurant "Beautiful View" in Italian, you can enjoy a very good view of museums and gardens in the sunshine.
It is an Italian dish made with plenty of ingredients from Chiba Prefecture, and Tokyo Dumbo enjoyed "canola flower Risotto".
Gardens and restaurants are free of charge without having to enter the museum. Kimonos enjoyed the dinner, and in the garden, families with children and people with large cameras enjoyed nature.
From Chuo-ku, you can get to the DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum in about an hour by Keisei Bus from Tokyo Station. There are also free shuttle buses from JR Sakura Station and Keisei Sakura Station.
On a one-hour trip, I was able to enjoy the time to enrich my five senses in a rich nature. In addition, after the DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, I went to the National Museum of History and Folklore, where the "Edo-zu folding screen" is stored.
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
National Museum of Japanese History
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