Eisei Bunko Museum
Illustration — Eisei Bunko Museum The Eisei Bunko Museum is a museum in Bunkyo in Tokyo, Japan. Its collection includes historical documents and artifacts, and works of fine art. The museum is located what was formerly the grounds of the Hosokawa clan, near the Shin-Edogawa Garden.
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- Founded
- 1973
- Founder
- Moritatsu Hosokawa
- Headquarters
- Japan
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Illustration — Eisei Bunko Museum The Eisei Bunko Museum is a museum in Bunkyo in Tokyo, Japan. Its collection includes historical documents and artifacts, and works of fine art. The museum is located what was formerly the grounds of the Hosokawa clan, near the Shin-Edogawa Garden.
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• Illustration — Black Cat by Hishida Shunsō The Eisei-Bunko (Eisei Archive) is a collection of important art objects acquired and passed down in the Hosokawa family, a daimyō of 540 thousand-goku (one of the five top daimyōs) in Higo, the present day Kumamoto in Kyushu. The collection has been in existence since the Nanboku-chō Era or the 14th century and is noted for possessing close to 112 thousands objects. In 1950, the archive was turned into a foundation and a public museum was opened in 1973. Currently the display at the museum is rearranged three times a year at which occasion special events are organized for its members.
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Eisei Bunko Museum established.
1973
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* • Illustration — Handscrolls of Ki Haseo, Kamakura period The collection is estimated to contain over a hundred thousand rare and old documents, scrolls, paintings, etc. and approximately 6,000 objects of art, including crafts, modern paintings and sculptures acquired here and abroad. The exact size of the archive is unknown. The archive materials have been placed in the care of Kumamoto University for analysis while art objects are being exhibited at the museum in parts as they are catalogued.
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- 1.Das Grundstück ist auf der Stadtteilkarte „Zōshigaya-Otowa“ von 1857 als Außenresidenz (shimo-yashiki) eingetragen.
- 2.Tokyo hakubutsukan kyogikai (Hrsg.): Tokyo no hakubutsukan. 17. Auflage, 1989. S. 218
- 3.Ein sehr ähnliches Stellschirm-Paar befindet sich im MOA-Kunstmuseum, Atami.
- 4.Das Rollbild befindet sich jetzt im Präfektur-Kunstmuseum Kumamoto.
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Eisei Bunko Museum is recorded as founded by Moritatsu Hosokawa. Associated with Japan. Recorded from 1973.
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