Rakushi Art Museum, Art museum in Higashi-ku district, Nagoya, Japan
The Rakushi Art Museum is a museum in the Higashi-ku ward of Nagoya, Japan, opened in 1987 on the donation of the head of the Matsuo school of tea ceremony. Its reinforced-concrete building has two floors and 418 m² of floor space, with exhibition rooms, storage, a meeting room and a library, and it shows tea utensils handed down in the Matsuo family along with craft objects linked to the region.
The museum opened in 1987 on the basis of a donation from the head of the Matsuo school of tea ceremony. The Matsuo family's tea utensils, handed down within the household, form the core of the collection, which also includes crafts connected to the Nagoya region.
The museum takes its name from the tea ceremony, and its holdings centre on tea utensils handed down in the Matsuo family, hereditary heads of the Matsuo school of tea. The collection was donated by that household, and locally connected crafts and fine art are shown alongside the bowls and implements.
The museum is a five-minute walk from Hisaya-odori Station on the Meijo and Sakura-dori subway lines. It opens from 10:00 to 16:00 and closes on Mondays and during exhibition changes. The building has two floors, with exhibition rooms plus a storage room, meeting room and library.
The museum opened in 1987 on land of 585.66 m², in a two-storey reinforced-concrete building with 418 m² of floor space. Besides the exhibition room it holds a storage room, a meeting room and a library. The library is the part visitors tend to miss.
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