Pine Trees
Hasegawa Tōhaku · 1580
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo · Founded 1872
The largest collection of Japanese art anywhere, including the Wind God and Thunder God screens. Japan’s oldest museum, in Ueno Park, and a thousand yen for the collection galleries.
- 2.5M
- Visitors a year
- 1872
- Founded
- ¥1,000
- Admission
- Closed Mon
- Daily opening hours
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Pine Trees
Hasegawa Tōhaku · 1580
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga
Toba Sōjō · 1150
Wind God and Thunder God
Ogata Kōrin · c. 1700
Ogata Kōrin, 1800. Wind God and Thunder God is a painting on a pair of two-folded byōbu by Rinpa artist Ogata Kōrin, a replica of a similar work by Tawaraya Sōtatsu, depicting Raijin, the god of lightning, thunder and storms in the Shinto religion and in Japanese mythology, and Fūjin, the god of wind.
Cypress Trees
Kanō Eitoku · 1590
Cypress Trees (檜図, hinoki-zu) is a Kanō-school byōbu or folding screen attributed to the Japanese painter Kanō Eitoku (1543 to 1590), one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting. The painting dates to the Azuchi, Momoyama period (1573 to 1615).
Haboku sansui
Sesshū Tōyō · 1495
Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, haboku sansui-zu; Broken Ink Landscape) is a splashed-ink landscape painting on a hanging scroll. It was made by the Japanese artist Sesshū Tōyō in 1495, in the Muromachi period.
Dōjigiri
Dōjigiri (童子切, "Slayer of Shuten-dōji") is a tachi-type Japanese sword that has been identified as a National Treasure of Japan. This sword is one of the "Five Swords Under Heaven" (天下五剣 Tenka-Goken).
Artists
Japan · 1300–1400
Gorō Nyūdō Masamune was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as tachi and tantō, in the Sōshū school.
Japan · 1558–1637
Hon'ami Kōetsu was a Japanese calligrapher, craftsman, lacquerer, potter, landscape gardener, connoisseur of swords and a devotee of the tea ceremony.
Japan · 1658–1716
Ogata Kōrin was a Japanese landscape illustrator, lacquerer, painter, and textile designer of the Rinpa School. Kōrin is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms (both regi
Japanese · 1420–1506
Sesshū Tōyō , also known simply as Sesshū , was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting.
Japan · 1434–1525
Tosa Mitsunobu was a Japanese painter, the founder of the Tosa school of Japanese painting. Born into a family that had traditionally served as painters to the Imperial court, he was head of the court painting bureau fro
Artworks
Morning Glories and Puppies
Maruyama Ōkyo · 1784
Merrymaking Under the Cherry Blossoms
Kanō Naganobu · 1650
Ishida Masamune
Masamune
Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn
Sakai Hōitsu · 1821
Hari-shigoto
Kitagawa Utamaro
Portrait of Takami Senseki
Watanabe Kazan · 1837
Writing Box with Eight Bridges
Ogata Kōrin · Edo period, 18th century
Rakuchū rakugai zu (Funaki)
Iwasa Matabē · 1615
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
Plan your visit
Hours
9:30am to 5:00pm, and to 8:00pm on Friday, Saturday, and on Sundays when the following Monday is a holiday. Last admission thirty minutes before closing. Closed Mondays, except when the Monday is a holiday, in which case the museum opens and closes the following day instead. Confirm on www.tnm.jp before you travel.
Admission
1,000 yen for adults and 500 yen for university students, for the collection exhibitions. The visitor entrance is via the Main gate.
Getting there
13-9 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8712, Japan.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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