Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum, Art and biographical museum in Sakaide, Japan
The Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum is an art museum in Sakaide dedicated to one of Japan's most influential 20th-century landscape painters. The building houses hundreds of paintings, lithographs, and drawings displayed across two spacious floors with natural lighting.
The museum was created following the artist's death in 2001 when his family donated a major collection of his works to Kagawa Prefecture. The facility opened in 2005 and made his artistic legacy publicly accessible for the first time.
The gallery spaces present how landscape painting shaped Japanese artistic thinking, with works displayed to show connections between the artist's vision and actual places across the country. Visitors can see how his practice influenced broader conversations about depicting nature in modern Japan.
The museum sits near the Seto Ohashi Bridge and is positioned to take in views of the Seto Inland Sea from its windows. Visitors should plan for a leisurely pace since the layout supports slow, careful looking at each work.
Renowned architect Yoshio Taniguchi designed the building with large windows framing views of the Seto Inland Sea, which complements the artist's work on display. This choice ties the museum structure itself into the broader subject of landscape painting.
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