Yūrinkan Museum
The Yūrinkan Museum or Fujii Saiseikai Yūrinkan is a private museum of East Asian art in Kyōto, Japan. Established in 1926 by entrepreneur and politician Fujii Zensuke (1860–1934), it is the second oldest private museum in Japan, after the Ōkura Shūkokan. The collection, particularly strong in Chinese art from the Shang to the Qing, includes one National Treasure and nine Important Cultural Properties.
Yūrinkan Museum

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- Name
- Yūrinkan Museum
- Founded
- 1926
- Founder
- Zensuke Fujii
- Headquarters
- Japan
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The Yūrinkan Museum or Fujii Saiseikai Yūrinkan is a private museum of East Asian art in Kyōto, Japan. Established in 1926 by entrepreneur and politician Fujii Zensuke (1860–1934), it is the second oldest private museum in Japan, after the Ōkura Shūkokan. The collection, particularly strong in Chinese art from the Shang to the Qing, includes one National Treasure and nine Important Cultural Properties.
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• Name — Yūrinkan Museum • Native Name — 藤井斉成会有鄰館 • Address — 44 Okazaki Enshōji-chō, Sakyō-ku • Location Town — Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture • Location Country — Japan • Opened Date — 1926 • Architect — Takeda Goichi
Name
Name
The museum's name is taken from the Analects of Confucius and "expresses this feeling of good neighbourly relations".
Buildings
Buildings
The main building or "Fujii Saiseikai Yūrinkan Building No.1" of 1926 was built to a design by Takeda Goichi to house Fujii Kensuke's collection of Chinese art. In a Chinese style both inside and out, it is topped by an octagonal pavilion with thirty-six thousand yellow glazed roof tiles dating to the time of the Qianlong Emperor. The building is a registered (as opposed to designated) Municipal Tangible Cultural Property. The annex or "Fujii Saiseikai Yūrinkan Building No.2" dates to the beginning of the Taishō era (1912–1926). Formerly the western-style building of the Yokoyama Mining Office, it was relocated from Kanazawa to Kyōto at the time of the enthronement of the Shōwa Emperor in 1928, to accommodate the Minister of Finance. It is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, alongside the 1928 storage facility.
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The museum is open to the public on the first and third Sunday of each month, excepting January and August.
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1926
Yūrinkan Museum established.
1926
Yūrinkan Museum is recorded from 1926.
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The Yūrinkan's collection of Chinese art includes bronzes, ceramics, Buddhist statues, seals, calligraphic works, textiles, and paintings, as well as nearly a hundred manuscripts from Dunhuang, including twenty-three in Uighur and others in Tibetan, Mongolian, and Sanskrit. The museum's National Treasure consists of a fragmentary Tang manuscript of a commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
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