The is a private museum in the city of

Atami is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 36,865 in 21,593 households and a population density of 600 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Atami is located in the far ea ...

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History

The museum was established in 1982 by the Mokichi Okada Association (MOA) to house the art collection of their founder, multimillionaire and religious leader

Mokichi Okada Mokichi Okada (岡田茂吉 ''Okada Mokichi'', 23 December 1882 He founded the World Church of Messiah, that later became the Church of World Messianity, and also is the spiritual leader of Shumei and the Johrei Fellowship. He is known by his fo ...

(1882–1955).

Collection

The collection of the museum consists of approximately 3,500 works of art that include three National Treasures ('' Red and White Plum Blossoms'' screen by

Ogata Kōrin Ogata Kōrin ( ja, 尾形光琳; 1658 – June 2, 1716) was a Japanese landscape illustrator, lacquerer, painter, and textile designer of the Rinpa School. Kōrin is best known for his ''byōbu'' folding screens, such as '' Irises'' and ' ...

, Nonomura Ninsei’s Tea-leaf Jar with design or wisteria, and a Calligraphy Album “Tekagami Kanboku-jo” which is an album of ancient calligraphy from the Nara to Muromachi periods), as well as 66

Important Cultural Properties of Japan An The term is often shortened into just is an item officially classified as Tangible Cultural Property by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs ( Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) and judged to b ...

. The collection covers a wide span of classical

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competitio ...

hanging scroll A hanging scroll is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit East Asian painting and calligraphy. The hanging scroll was displayed in a room for appreciation; it is to be distinguished from the handscroll, which was narrower and ...

Japanese sculpture Sculpture in Japan began with the clay figure. Towards the end of the long Neolithic Jōmon period, some pottery vessels were "flame-rimmed" with extravagant extensions to the rim that can only be called sculptural, and very stylized pottery dog ...

porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating substances, generally including materials such as kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainl ...

and

lacquer Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal. It is most often made from resin extracted from trees and waxes and has been in use since antiquity. Asian lacquerware, which may be ca ...

work from

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and Japan. The museum also has a reconstruction of the 16th century

Golden Tea Room The was a portable gilded '' chashitsu'' (tea room) constructed during the late 16th century Azuchi–Momoyama period for the Japanese regent Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tea ceremonies. The original Golden Tea Room is lost, but a number of recon ...

, which was made under the supervision of the architect

Sutemi Horiguchi was an architect and a historian of Japanese architecture, and an expert of ''sukiya-zukuri'' architecture. In addition to designing modern buildings, he designed buildings in ''sukiya-zukuri,'' and buildings that fused both modern architectural ...

, an expert of ''

sukiya Sukiya may refer to: * Sukiya-zukuri, traditional Japanese interior * a synonym for chashitsu, a Japanese tea room * Sukiya (restaurant chain) {{disambig ...

'' architecture. Ogata Korin - RED AND WHITE PLUM BLOSSOMS (National Treasure) - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Red and White Plum Blossoms'' by

(National Treasure) NINSEI Wisteria TeaJar MOA.JPG, Tea-leaf jar with a design of wisteria by Ninsei, Edo period (National Treasure) Golden Tea Room MOA Museum (5).jpg, Golden Tea Room

References

External links

moaart.or.jp
Home page
MOA Museum of Art
within

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Collection

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