Kanazawa Yuwaku Yumeji-kan Museum, Biographical art museum in Yuwaku Onsen, Japan.
The Kanazawa Yuwaku Yumeji-kan Museum displays works by Japanese artist Yumeji Takehisa across two exhibition floors filled with paintings, drawings, and illustrations. The collection spans his artistic career and shows the range of his creative output over many years.
The museum opened on 16 April 2000 as a municipal art and cultural facility of Kanazawa. It marks Yumeji Takehisa's stay at the Yamashita inn in Yuwaku Onsen from 24 September to 16 October 1917, the connection that brought him to the hot spring village. The building is two stories, with a mini theatre and permanent exhibition room on the ground floor and a temporary exhibition room upstairs.
The ground-floor permanent exhibition presents the three women who shaped Yumeji Takehisa's art: Tamaki, Hikono and Oyo. Their portraits and related materials show how these muses recur in his paintings and illustrations. The museum opened in 2000 in Yuwaku Onsen, where Yumeji stayed in 1917.
The museum is in the Yuwaku Onsen district of Kanazawa and is reached by bus from Kanazawa Station. It opens from 9:00 to 17:30 and closes only when exhibitions are being changed. The adjacent Shirakawa no Yu is a day-use onsen and the district's public bath.
The artist developed a deep connection to Yuwaku and considered it the hometown of his soul. This special bond formed after a period when he spent time there during an important moment in his personal life.
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