Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu Art Museum | |
Native Name: | 串本応挙芦雪館 |
Location Town: | Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture |
Location Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 33.4703°N 135.7783°W |
Opened Date: | November 1961[1] |
Website: | (ja) |
The is an art museum in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The museum opened on the grounds of in 1961 and comprises five exhibition rooms in two single-story reinforced concrete buildings.[1] The collection includes a series of fifty-five painted panels by Maruyama Ōkyo and Nagasawa Rosetsu (among them, the Dragon and Tiger Fusuma[2]) that have been designated an Important Cultural Property;[1] [3] ninety-six paintings and calligraphic works by artists including Kanō Sansetsu, Kanō Tan'yū, Hakuin Ekaku, Itō Jakuchū, and Mu'an, passed down as temple treasures of Muryō-ji;[1] more recent paintings and sculptures, including works by and ;[1] and 1,584 archaeological artefacts from the that include Jōmon and Yayoi ceramics.[1] [4]