Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art

The collection of about 5,000 works has strong Kumamoto connections. One room is devoted to the printmaker Hamada Tomoaki, and another shows replicas of decorated tombs found in the prefecture. The Western holdings center on Fujita Tsuguharu, who spent his childhood in Kumamoto, and include a Renoir portrait of a girl with a flower at her chest and Rodin's The Kiss. A separate building shows works from Eisei Bunko, the foundation that preserves the Hosokawa family's cultural properties. A branch built in 1992 in Chibajō-chō, east of the castle's main enclosure, completes the museum.