Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art | |
Native Name: | 七戸町立鷹山宇一記念美術館 |
Address: | 67-94 Arakumanai |
Location Town: | Shichinohe, Aomori Prefecture |
Location Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 40.7169°N 141.156°W |
Opened Date: | 1 August 1994 |
opened in Shichinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, in 1994 as a part of Roadside Station Shichinohe.[1] The collection comprises four main areas: three rooms with paintings by four artists from or otherwise associated with Shichinohe, namely (1908–1999) and fellow yōga artist (1904–1983), Nihonga artist (1876–1966), and (1892–1979), who specialised in painting horses; the Lamp Hall, with its nucleus in Takayama Uichi's collection of nineteenth-century western and Meiji lamps; the Ema Hall, with folk artefacts centred upon ema, hagoita, and other related items from nearby and that have been designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties; and a Spanish Folk Ceramic Hall.[2] [3] [4] [5]