opened as the successor to the Ishibashi Museum of Art in
Kurume
is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city has an estimated population of 303,579 and a population density of 1,320 persons per km². The total area is 229.96 km².
On February 5, 2005, the town of Kitano (from ...
,
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...
, Japan in 2016. It forms part of the Ishibashi Culture Center, which opened in 1956, alongside the studio of
yōga
is a style of artistic painting in Japan, typically of Japanese subjects, themes, or landscapes, but using Western (European) artistic conventions, techniques, and materials. The term was coined in the Meiji period (1868–1912) to distingu ...
painter , relocated from
Yame
is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1954.
As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 39,372 and a population density of 1,000.81 persons per km². The total area was 39.34 km².
On Oct ...
in 1980, and
Shōjirō Ishibashi
was a Japanese businessman who founded the Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest maker of tires, in 1931 in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. the company was named after its founder: in the Japanese language, ''ishi'' means "stone" and ...
Memorial Museum, dedicated to the founder of
Bridgestone and donated to the city by the Ishibashi Foundation after renovation in 2016, on the sixtieth anniversary of the Ishibashi Culture Center's opening. The focus of the collection is the work of local artists, notably Kurume scions
Aoki Shigeru and Sakamoto Hanjirō, as well as
Kyūshū yōga more generally.
See also
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List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Fukuoka)
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List of Historic Sites of Japan (Fukuoka)
This list is of the Historic Sites of Japan located within the Prefecture of Fukuoka.
National Historic Sites
As of 1 December 2020, ninety-seven Sites have been designated as being of national significance (including five *Special Historic Si ...
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Kyushu National Museum
The opened on October 16, 2005 in Dazaifu near Fukuoka—the first new national museum in Japan in over 100 years, and the first to elevate the focus on history over art.Japan National Tourist Organization Museum "focuses on history."/ref> The ...
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Artizon Museum
Artizon Museum , until 2018 , is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bridgestone Tire Co., Ishibashi Shojiro (his family name means stone bridge). The museum's collections include Impressionists, Po ...
References
External links
Kurume City Art Museum
Kurume
Museums in Fukuoka Prefecture
Art museums and galleries in Japan
Museums established in 2016
2016 establishments in Japan
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