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Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu Art Museum
串本応挙芦雪館
本土最南端の無量寺境内にある日本で一番小さい美術館で、円山応挙・長沢芦雪の重要文化財の襖絵を畳に座って鑑賞でき、現代彫刻との対比も楽しめます。
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The Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu Art Museum is an art museum in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The museum opened on the grounds of Muryō-ji in 1961 and comprises five exhibition rooms in two single-story reinforced concrete buildings. The collection includes a series of fifty-five painted panels by Maruyama Ōkyo and Nagasawa Rosetsu that have been designated an Important Cultural Property; ninety-six paintings and calligraphic works by artists including Kanō Sansetsu, Kanō Tan'yū, Hakuin Ekaku, Itō Jakuchū, and Mu'an, passed down as temple treasures of Muryō-ji; more recent paintings and sculptures, including works by Kumagai Morikazu and Matsumura Sotojirō; and 1,584 archaeological artefacts from the Kasashima Site (笠嶋遺跡) that include Jōmon and Yayoi ceramics.
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