Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum Explained

Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum
Native Name:	平山郁夫シルクロード美術館
Native Name Lang:	ja
Map Type:	Japan
Coordinates:	35.8791°N 138.3594°W
Location:	2000-6 Nagasakacho Koarama, Hokuto, Yamanashi 408-0031, Japan
Type:	Archaeology museum
Website:	https://www.silkroad-museum.jp/english/

The Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum is a Japanese museum named after the painter and collector Ikuo Hirayama.^{[1] [2]}

The museum opened in 2004 in the Yamanashi region of Japan.^[3] It is one of the few and significant museums about the Silk Road, to be located outside of China.^[4]

Many of the objects of the collection were exhibited in China in 2018–2019.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Srinivasan . Doris . On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kuṣāṇa World . 2007 . BRILL . 978-90-04-15451-3 . 286 . en.
2. Book: Stubbs . John H. . Thomson . Robert G. . Architectural Conservation in Asia: National Experiences and Practice . 10 November 2016 . Routledge . 978-1-317-40618-1 . 57 . en.
3. Book: Winter . Tim . The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures . 2022 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-760505-9 . 186 . en.
4. Book: Clarkson . Persis B. . Santoro . Calogero M. . Caravans in Global Perspective: Contexts and Boundaries . 29 November 2021 . Routledge . 978-1-000-50419-4 . 100 . en.
5. Web site: Silk Road Antiquities from Hirayama Ikuo Collection, at the National Museum of China . en.chnmuseum.cn.