Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Illustration — The entrance to the Museum Yamato Bunkakan The Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara. The museum was established in 1960 to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation (named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. Till June 27, 2003). • Illustration — A house, trees with white blossoms and people.
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Museum Yamato Bunkakan
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- Founded
- 1946
- Founder
- Oita Torao · Isamu Saeki
- Headquarters
- Japan
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Illustration — The entrance to the Museum Yamato Bunkakan The Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara. The museum was established in 1960 to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation (named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. Till June 27, 2003). • Illustration — A house, trees with white blossoms and people.
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Two national treasures in the collection are illustrative scenes from Nezame Monogatari Emaki.
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1946
Museum Yamato Bunkakan established.
1946
Museum Yamato Bunkakan is recorded from 1946.
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• Illustration — Part of a house and garden. This museum of Asian art has holdings of more than twenty thousand objects of sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, paintings, prints, textiles and calligraphy. The museum features a program of regularly changing exhibitions. The founding director in 1960 was art historian Yukio Yashiro.
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Museum Yamato Bunkakan is recorded as founded by Oita Torao and Isamu Saeki. Associated with Japan. Recorded from 1946.
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