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Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum-
Category: Art Museums
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This museum exhibits makie lacquer ware, cloisonné, metalwork and Kyoto Satsuma artworks, all of which reached zeniths during the closing years of the shogunate and on into the Meiji period, becoming so highly prized overseas that many o... [Details]
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art-
Category: Art Museums | Ginkaku-ji Temple, Heian-jingu Shrine Environs
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Right beside the giant torii gate of Heian-jingu Shrine stands a brick building topped by an emerald green copper roof – this is the Municipal Museum of Art. Having been built in 1933, it is the second oldest art museum in Japan after th... [Details]
Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts-
Category: Art Museums | Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kitano-Tenmangu Shrine, Ninna-ji Temple Environs
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The artist Insho Domoto (receiver of the Order of Culture) established this art museum in 1966 at the base of Mount Kinugasa. The world-famous Domoto is noted for shifting from representational to abstract painting, and also is well know... [Details]
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto-
Category: Art Museums | Ginkaku-ji Temple, Heian-jingu Shrine Environs
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Nestled in a corner of Kyoto's keynote culture zone, the contemporary architecture of this museum shines alongside historical giants like Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and Heian-jingu Shrine. This museum is home to works by Japanese... [Details]
Nomura Art Museum-
Category: Art Museums | Ginkaku-ji Temple, Heian-jingu Shrine Environs
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This museum was opened in 1984 to exhibit the artwork collection accrued over a lifetime by Tokushichi Nomura II who built up massive financial group including Nomura Securities. The collection reaches to some 1700 pieces, includes seven... [Details]
Raku Museum-
Category: Art Museums | Nijo Castle, Kyoto Gyoen (Imperial Gardens), Seimei-jinja Shrine Environs
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Raku ware was first produced in the Momoyama period (1583-1600) by the potter Chojiro I. Tradition has it that Hideyoshi conferred the Chinese character for "raku" on this new ware from his own residence known as "Jurakuda... [Details]
Sen-oku Hakuko Kan-
Category: Art Museums | Ginkaku-ji Temple, Heian-jingu Shrine Environs
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This museum exhibits the artworks collected by the Sumitomo family. Located at the very eastern end of Marutamachi-dori in Shishigatani, the museum exudes a sense of calm nestled in among the hills of Higashiyama. Izumiya was the trade n... [Details]
Garden Museum Hiei-
Category: Art Museums | Shimogamo-jinja Shrine, Sanzen-in Temple, Kurama-dera Temple Environs
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Located on top of Mount Hiei, this garden museum is renowned for ceramic-tile depictions of famous landscapes by impressionist artists like Monet, Renoir, Gogh as well as the 100,000 flowering plants in some 1500 varieties. Here, not onl... [Details]
Hosomi Museum-
Category: Art Museums | Ginkaku-ji Temple, Heian-jingu Shrine Environs
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Located in the culture zone of Kyoto, next to Kyoto Kaikan with the Lake Biwa Canal running by, this museum exhibits Japanese fine art accumulated by the 20th-century industrialist Ryoichi Hosomi III. The collection is a substantial one ... [Details]
Kaleidoscope Museum of Kyoto (Aneyakoji-dori facility)-
Category: Art Museums
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With a collection of kaleidoscopes from around the world, this museum exhibits some 50 of them, including a giant one about a meter long, many of which can be directly handled by visitors. For about five minutes every hour a kaleidosco... [Details]
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