Watanabe Art Museum
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| Watanabe Museum Of Art | |
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渡辺美術館 | |
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 Interactive map of the Watanabe Museum Of Art area | |
| General information | |
| Location | 55 Kakuji, Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan |
| Coordinates | 35°31′14″N 134°13′39″E / 35.520658°N 134.227377°E |
| Opened | 1978 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 6,300 m2 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Watanabe Museum Of Art (渡辺美術館, Watanabe Bijutsukan) opened in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan in 1978. It houses the 30,000-piece collection of Tottori resident Dr. Hajime Watanabe (1911–2017).[1] It holds the largest collection of Samurai armour and weapons in any museum in Japan.
The collection includes Buddhist sculpture and art from Japan and elsewhere, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ceramics, ukiyo-e, and over 1,000 folding screens. It has been referred to as "a shrine for antiques".
Armour and weapons collection
While front area of the museum is devoted to the art collection of the museum, the main larger body of the museum is dedicated to a large collection of armour and weapons. The museum has over half of its collection on display in a large display area,[2] and with over 200 suits of samurai armour, it is the largest and most diverse collection of Samurai armour and weapons in Japan.[3][4][5]
Samurai armour represented a range of armour harnesses from the Edo and warring states period.[5]
It also houses a collection of items related to the Ikeda clan, the "daimyo" family that controlled Tottori during the Edo Period.[6][7]
