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Mitsui Memorial Museum

三井記念美術館Chuo, Tokyo

Museum

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At a Glance

Mitsui Memorial Museum is an art museum in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, on the seventh floor of the Mitsui Main Building, an Important Cultural Property. It is a private museum showing treasures handed down in the Mitsui family and is run by the Mitsui Bunko foundation. The museum opened here in 2005 and reopened after renovation in 2022.

The collection numbers about 4,000 objects, among them six National Treasures, 75 Important Cultural Properties and many fine tea ceremony utensils. Highlights include Maruyama Okyo's six-panel screen of snow-covered pines, painted for the Mitsui family, and the Shino tea bowl Unohanagaki, one of the few Japanese-made ceramics ranked as a National Treasure. Noh masks that once belonged to the Kongo family are also part of the holdings.

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75 minutes

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