Kumagai Kaya Tsukechi Gallery, Art and biographical museum in Tsukechicho, Japan
Kumagai Kaya Tsukechi Gallery is a museum in Tsukechicho, Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, housed in a building to which it moved in 1996. It reopened in 2015 as the Kumagai Kaya Tsukechi Gallery, named after the painter Kaya Kumagai, Morikazu Kumagai's second daughter. The gallery shows works by Kaya Kumagai and by artists connected to Tsukechi, including Kimizo Mio, Isaburo Makino and Gyoho Mio.
The gallery opened in 1976 in Tsukechi, Ena District, as the Kumagai Morikazu Memorial Museum, honouring the painter born in that town. It moved to a new building on its current site in 1996. In 2015 it reopened as the Kumagai Kaya Tsukechi Gallery, and Morikazu's works were transferred to the nearby Kumagai Morikazu Tsukechi Memorial Museum.
The gallery is named after Kaya Kumagai, Morikazu's second daughter and a painter herself. Since the 2015 renewal it shows her work alongside artists connected to Tsukechi: Kōzō Mio, Isaburō Makino and Gyōhō Mio. It is registered as a Gifu Prefecture street-corner museum.
The gallery is in Tsukechicho, Nakatsugawa, about 30 km from Nakatsugawa IC via National Routes 257 and 256. By train, take the Kita-Ena Kotsu bus from Nakatsugawa Station to the Tsukechi Sogo Jimusho stop, then walk about 7 minutes. From Sakashita Station, get off at Ogahira and walk about 3 minutes.
The gallery opened in 1976 as the Kumagai Morikazu Memorial Hall in Tsukechi, moved to its present building in 1996, and was renamed Kumagai Kaya Tsukechi Gallery in 2015. Its four listed works are dated 1990 to 2015, among them "Sunflower" (2011) and "Bon no Yuzu" (2015).
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