is a municipal art gallery in

Yonago is a Cities of Japan, city in western Tottori Prefecture, Japan, facing the Sea of Japan and making up part of the boundary of Nakaumi, Lake Nakaumi. It is adjacent to Shimane Prefecture and across the lake from its capital of Matsue. It is the p ...

Tottori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hirosh ...

(Japan) that opened in 1983. The gallery has a permanent collection of paintings and photographs; the latter is particularly strong for the photographers

Teikō Shiotani According to Hepburn romanization, Shiotani's adopted given name is written "Teikō". Many publications in English do not provide macrons, resulting in "Teiko". Following an informal convention, some other publications give it as "Teikoh". w ...

and

Shōji Ueda __NOTOC__ was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi (on t ...

. It also hosts special exhibitions. The museum is at Nakamachi 12, Yonago-shi.

References

Matsumoto Norihiko is a Japanese writer on photography, and photographer. Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, on 1 January 1936, Matsumoto graduated from Nihon University in 1958. He started to work for the publishing company while still a student, but went freelance ...

(), ed. ''Nihon no bijutsukan to shashin korekushon'' (, Japan's art galleries and photography collections). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2002. . Pp. 136–39.

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Yonago City Museum of Art

Art museums and galleries in Japan Art museums established in 1983 Museums in Tottori Prefecture 1983 establishments in Japan Yonago, Tottori {{Japan-museum-stub