Watanabe Art Museum

Watanabe Museum Of Art
Watanabe Museum Of Art
渡辺美術館
General information
Address	55 Kakuji
Town or city	Tottori, Tottori Prefecture
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35°31′14″N 134°13′39″E / 35.520658°N 134.227377°E
Opened	1978
Technical details
Floor area	6,300 m2
Website
	Official website

Watanabe Museum Of Art (渡辺美術館, Watanabe Bijutsukan) opened in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan in 1978. It houses the 30,000-piece collection of Tottori resident Dr. Hajime Watanabe (1911-2017).^[1]

The collection includes Buddhist sculpture and art from Japan and elsewhere, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics, ukiyo-e, and over 1,000 folding screens. The centerpiece of the museum is over two hundred sets of samurai armour and numerous swords and other weaponry, one of the largest publicly displayed collections in Japan. It also houses a collection of items related to the Ikeda clan, the "daimyo" family that controlled Tottori during the Edo Period. ^[2]^[3]

References

^ 美術館案内 [Guide to the Art Museum] (in Japanese). Watanabe Museum Of Art. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
^ Absolon, Trevor (2011). The Watanabe Art Museum Samurai Armour Collection, Volume 1. Toraba. p. 13. ISBN 978-0986761508.
^ 美術館・博物館等情報 [Information about Museums and Museums of Art] (in Japanese). Tottori Prefecture. Retrieved 28 August 2019.