Paramita Museum, Art museum in Komono, Japan.
The Paramita Museum is a private art museum in Komono, Mie Prefecture, with a broad light-beige facade of large rectangular panels and a shallow curved gable roof. Its first floor holds four rooms: rooms 1 to 3 display Masuo Ikeda's 1,299-piece Hannya Shingyo ceramic series, and room 6 shows selected oils by Saburoichi Kojima. Room 5 upstairs holds the Mogeyaki ceramics collection.
Chizuko Kojima, sister of Aeon founder Takuya Okada, opened the museum on 15 March 2003 to house her collection, centred on Masuo Ikeda's 1,299-piece Hannya Shingyo ceramic series. She had waited over a year for Ikeda's partner Yoko Sato to part with the series, promising to build a museum for it. In 2005 she donated the museum to the Okada Cultural Foundation, which has run it since.
The name "Paramita" was chosen from public submissions and derives from the Sanskrit pāramitā, echoing the Heart Sutra series by Masuo Ikeda that anchors the collection. Each summer since 2006 the museum has hosted the Paramita Ceramics Award, in which six nominated artists exhibit and visitors vote for the grand prize; the winning work is not purchased.
The museum is about 300 m west of Obaneen-yuen Station on the Kintetsu Yunoyama Line, a five-minute walk. It is open 9:30–17:30 and closes only from 28 December to 1 January. A free car park holds 100 cars; drivers reach it from the Yokkaichi IC via Route 477 or from the Komono IC via Routes 306 and 477.
The garden, Paramita Garden, was laid out around trees that predate the museum; no new trees were planted, only undergrowth added. About 100 tree species and 200 wildflower species grow here, and sculptures such as Makio Yamaguchi's "Inside the Stone" stand among them.
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