Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art

Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art (七戸町立鷹山宇一記念美術館 Shichinohe chōritsu Takayama Uichi kinen bijutsukan) opened in Shichinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, in 1994. The collection comprises four main areas: three rooms with paintings by four artists from or otherwise associated with Shichinohe, namely Takayama Uichi (鷹山宇一) (1908–1999) and fellow yōga artist Hirano Shirō (平野四郎) (1904–1983), Nihonga artist Toya Banzan (鳥谷幡山) (1876–1966), and Kamiizumi Kayō (上泉華陽) (1892–1979), who specialised in painting horses; the Lamp Hall, with its nucleus in Takayama Uichi’s collection of nineteenth-century western and Meiji lamps; the Ema Hall, with folk artefacts centred upon ema, hagoita, and other related items from nearby Mirumachi Kannon-dō (見町観音堂) and Kodako Fudō-dō (小田子不動堂) that have been designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties; and a Spanish Folk Ceramic Hall.

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Name : Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art

Category : Art

Website : HTTP://WWW.TAKAYAMAMUSEUM.JP/

TEL : 0176-62-5858

Area : Aomori (Tohoku)

Address : 67-94 Arakumanai Shichinohe-machi Kamikita-gun 039-2501
〒039-2501 青森県上北郡七戸町荒熊内67-94
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