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Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

浮世絵 太田記念美術館Tokyo

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The Ōta Memorial Museum of Art is a private ukiyo-e museum in Jingumae, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, close to Harajuku Station. It opened in January 1980 on the collection of Ōta Seizo V, a prominent businessman. The collection now totals more than 12,000 pieces and grows with new acquisitions each year.

It holds about 500 hand-painted works, about 10,000 woodblock prints and about 900 fan paintings from the former Konoike collection, including pieces by Harunobu, Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. A new themed exhibition is mounted each month, in a calm Japanese-style display setting that Ōta modelled on one he had admired at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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