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Yamatane Museum of Art

The Yamatane Museum of Art is a museum in Tokyo specialising in the nihonga style of Japanese painting. Its collection of more than 1,800 works focuses on modern and contemporary nihonga from the Meiji period onward, and also includes classical calligraphy, ukiyo-e paintings and Western-style paintings. Highlights include six Important Cultural Properties, such as Court Ladies Enjoying Wayside Chrysanthemums by Iwasa Matabei, Tabby Cat by Takeuchi Seihō and Dancing in the Flames by Hayami Gyoshū. The museum holds 120 paintings by Hayami Gyoshū, seventy by Kawai Gyokudō and 135 by Okumura Togyū, including most of the works he submitted to the post-war Inten exhibition. It stages seven to eight exhibitions a year and has published numerous books on its collection and exhibitions.

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Source: yamatane-museum.jp