Kitamura Museum

Mosque in Kyoto, Japan

35°01′41″N 135°46′13″E / 35.028039°N 135.770411°E / 35.028039; 135.770411Opened1977WebsiteOfficial website

Kitamura Museum (北村美術館, Kitamura Bijutsukan) opened near the confluence of the Kamo and Takano Rivers in Kyoto, Japan, in 1977. The collection, based on that built up by businessman Kitamura Kinjirō (北村謹次郎), comprises some 1,000 works including thirty-three Important Cultural Properties and nine Important Art Objects, with a particular focus on tea utensils. There is also a tea garden, Shikunshien (四君子苑), a Registered Cultural Property. The museum opens to the public for exhibitions each autumn and spring.^[1]^[2]

Important Cultural Properties

Among the museum's thirty-three Important Cultural Properties are the pair of scrolls Kite and Crows by Yosa Buson,^[3] Fujiwara no Nakafumi, from the series Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals formerly in the Satake Collection,^[4] and the Spring 1227 (Karoku 3) portion of Fujiwara no Teika's Meigetsuki (明月記).^[5]

Kite, from Kite and Crows, by Yosa Buson
Crows, from Kite and Crows, by Yosa Buson
Fujiwara no Nakafumi, one of the Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals
Meigetsuki, by Fujiwara no Teika

References

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^ 北村美術館 [Kitamura Museum] (in Japanese). Kyoto City. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^ 北村美術館 [Kitamura Museum] (in Japanese). Kitamura Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^ 紙本墨画淡彩鳶鴉図〈与謝蕪村筆／〉 [Kite and Crows, ink and light colour on paper, by Yosa Buson] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^ 紙本著色藤原仲文像〈／（佐竹本三十六歌仙切）〉 [Fujiwara no Nakafumi, from the series Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals, formerly in the Satake Collection] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^ 明月記〈自筆本／嘉禄三年春〉 [Meigetsuki, autograph manuscript, Spring 1227] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 23 October 2015.