Tanabe City Museum of Art, Art museum in Shinjō Park, Tanabe, Japan

The Tanabe City Museum of Art opened in 1996 in Shinjo Comprehensive Park, a steel-framed building with 1,660.60 m² of floor area. Its five exhibition rooms, library corner and salon hold Japanese-style painting, oil painting and literati painting, centred on the Kishu literati painters Gion Nankai, Kuwayama Gyokushū and Noro Kaiseki. The museum is closed for renovation from 9 June 2025 to the end of September 2026.

The museum opened in 1996 in Shinjo Comprehensive Park, built around a collection deposited by Reijiro Wakimura, a businessman and collector from Tanabe. Its core holdings centre on three literati painters of Kishu: Gion Nankai, Kuwayama Gyokushu and Noro Kaiseki. A further group of Western-style Japanese paintings was collected by Wakimura's elder brother, the economist Yoshitaro Wakimura. The building is closed for renovation from June 2025 to the end of September 2026.

The museum is named after Tanabe and grew from a collection deposited by Reijiro Wakimura, a businessman and collector born in the city. Its core is the work of three literati painters of Kishu: Gion Nankai, Kuwayama Gyokushu and Noro Kaiseki. A separate group of Western-style Japanese oil paintings was collected by Wakimura's elder brother, the economist Yoshitaro Wakimura.

The museum sits about five minutes on foot from the Shinjo Byoin Mae bus stop, making it straightforward to reach from public transport. Visitors should allow time to move through exhibition spaces at a relaxed pace for viewing the displayed works.

The museum's core collection came from businessman and collector Reijiro Wakimura, a Tanabe native; his elder brother, economist Yataro Wakimura, assembled the Japanese Western-style painting holdings. Look for Saeki Yuzo's 'Luxembourg Garden' (1927) and 'Factory' (1928), and Murakami Kagaku's 'Moonlit Night at Tsukigase' (1915). The building, completed in 1996, has a steel-frame structure with 1,660.60 m2 of floor area.