Tokugawa Art Museum

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| location = Nagoya City, Japan

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| key_holdings = National Treasures: Religious artwork, Tale of Genji, Japanese Swords (nobility)

| collections = Ancestral artefacts from the house of Owari Tokugawa

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| founder = House of Owari Tokugawa

| director = Yoshitaka Tokugawa (2016)

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| curator = Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation

| architect = Yoshio Yoshimoto

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The {{nihongo|Tokugawa Art Museum|徳川美術館|Tokugawa Bijutsukan}} is a private art museum, located on the former Ōzone Shimoyashiki compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368).

History

File:Tokugawa Museum.JPG

Unlike many private museums in Japan, which are based on collections assembled in the modern era by corporations or entrepreneurs, the Tokugawa Art Museum houses the hereditary collection of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan, which ruled the Owari Domain in what is now Aichi Prefecture. The museum is operated by the Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation, which was founded in 1931 by Yoshichika Tokugawa (1886–1976), 19th head of the Owari clan, in order to preserve the clan's priceless collection of art objects, furnishings, and heirlooms.

=Building architecture=

The architectural plan for the museum main building and southern archives were drawn up by Yoshio Yoshimoto, and construction was completed in 1935. The architecture is in the Imperial Crown style, in which the roof and exterior follow a classic Japanese design over a Western style building.{{Cite web |author= 文化庁 |author-link= 文化庁 |year= 2016 |title= 国指定文化財等データベース＞徳川美術館本館 |url= https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00000212 |publisher= 文化庁 |access-date=May 2, 2017 }}

Collection

The permanent exhibition also shows historical reproduction of the Nagoya Castle Ninomaru palace living quarters of the Owari Tokugawa daimyō, allowing visitors to view the objects as they were actually used in settings such as a Japanese tea-house or the Noh stage of the palace. The museum also mounts temporary exhibitions in a building that has been declared a national cultural property.

The most important and valuable treasures are the {{lang|ja-latn|Genji Monogatari Emaki}}, three Heian period illustrated handscrolls of The Tale of Genji, dating to the 1130s. Along with one other scroll from the same set, now preserved at the Gotoh Museum, they are the earliest extant depictions of the epic tale and are National Treasures of Japan. The scrolls are so fragile that they are not permanently displayed to the public. Since at least 2001, they have been displayed in the Tokugawa Museum for one week in November.

Other registered important art objects include:

Beni Annan Soukamon Chawan tea bowl (紅安南草花文茶碗), flowering-plant design, blue and white with red and green enamels. Vietnam, 16th C.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/exhibits/collection/room2/post-04/|title=紅安南草花文茶碗 | 第2展示室大名の数寄 | 名品コレクション展示室 | 展示 | 名古屋・徳川美術館}}{{Cite web|url=https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/52455|title = 草花文紅安南茶碗文化遺産オンライン}}{{Cite web|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/tea-bowl/8gELVH6Mqei4cw|title=Tea Bowl}}
Tea bowl named Mishima-oke (三島桶), Mishima ware type, carved and inlaid decoration, Buncheong ware from Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15-16th century. It was owned by Sen no Rikyu and Doan, later Tokugawa Ieyasu and then the 1st Owari lord Tokugawa Yoshinao{{Cite web|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/tea-bowl-named-mishima-oke/lQGRGDRjiH840Q?hl=ja|title=大名物三島茶碗銘三島桶}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/en/exhibits/collection/room2/03/|title = 三島茶碗銘三島桶 | Exhibition Room 2The Practice of Tea | Gallery of Masterpieces Collection | Tokugawa Art Museum}} Classified a O-Meibutsu{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/mishima-pottery-jt.html|title=Japanese Pottery - Mishima Wares}}
Celadon censer named Chidori (千鳥){{Cite web|url=https://www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/exhibits/planned/2015/0919/07/|title = 青磁香炉銘千鳥 | 茶の湯の名品 | 平成27年 | 特別展・企画展 | 展示 | 名古屋・徳川美術館}}{{Cite web|url=https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/85763|title = 青磁香炉銘千鳥文化遺産オンライン}}

The Hōsa Library is located next to the museum and houses 110,000 items, including classic literature belonging to the Owari branch. Located next to the museum is the Tokugawa Garden.

=Sample exhibits=

File:Amitabha with Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Tokugawa Art Museum) 2.jpg|Amitabha with Eight Great Bodhisattvas (14th century)

File:Honda links.jpg|Honda Heihachiro with Senhime (17th century) left panel

File:Honda rechts.jpg|Honda Heihachiro with Senhime (17th century) right panel

File:Ksitigarbha (Tokugawa Art Museum).jpg|Bodhisattva (14th century)

File:Mikatagaharasenekizou.jpg|Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu, for the occasion of the Battle of Mikatagahara

File:Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Nagakute.jpg|Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu, at the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute (17th century)

File:Yūhi Cormorants catching Fish.jpg|Kamashiro Yuhi's Cormorants catching fish, a hanging scroll on silk. (1755)

File:Nagashino Teppo-Ashigaru.jpg|Battle of Nagashino featuring riflemen. (18th century)

=National treasure designated illustrations from the handscroll of the Tale of Genji [[12th Century]]=

File:Genji emaki Yomogiu.JPG|Chapter "Yomogui" (Waste of Weeds)

File:Genji emaki Kashiwagi.JPG|Chapter "Kashiwagi"

File:Genji emaki YOKOBUE.jpg|Chapter "Yokobue" (Flute)

File:Genji emaki HASHIHIME.jpg|Chapter "Hashihime" (Bridge Princess)

File:Genji emaki SAWARABI.jpg|Chapter "Sawarabi" (Sprout)

File:Genji emaki YADORIGI 2.JPG|Chapter "Yadorigi" (Mistletoe)

File:Genji emaki Yadorigi.JPG| Chapter "Yadorigi" (Mistletoe)

File:Genji emaki YOKOBUE Ms.JPG|Calligraphy example from Chapter "Yadogiri" (Mistletoe)

Literature

{{cite book | title=The Tokugawa Art Museum| year=1988| publisher=The Tokugawa Art Museum| location=Nagoya|id=ASIN B000VQ5F9O}}
{{cite book | title=The Shogun Age Exhibition From The Tokugawa Art Museum| year=1985| publisher=Shogun Age Exhibition Committee| location=Nagoya|id=ASIN B000UDO9BS}}