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Marunouchi
Marunouchi () is an area in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, located between Tokyo Station and the Kokyo, Imperial Palace. The name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat. Marunouchi is the core ...
district.
History
The building is a faithful recreation of the original Mitsubishi Ichigokan which stood on the same location. Originally completed in 1894 and designed by British architect
Josiah Conder, the building was torn down in 1968.
The construction company responsible for the current incarnation used portions of the original plans and materials used at the time of the original construction. The new building, built out of red brick and cast concrete, has three stories above ground and two stories below.
Museum
Construction of the museum was completed in 2009 and it was opened April 6, 2010. The museum includes approximately of exhibition space, spread over 20 rooms, throughout the building's floorplan.
The museum focuses on 19th-century Western artwork. Included in the museum's own artwork is the
Maurice Joyant collection, a group of over 200 works by
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colour ...
. The theme of the opening exhibition will be "Manet and Modern Paris", in cooperation with
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...
. An opening commemoration exhibition and logo design were announced in 2008.
The Museum does not currently exhibit its permanent collection and holds only special exhibitions.
Publications
The museum has published a number of books about its special exhibitions, including the following:
* ''Ukiyo-e: Floating world from the Saito Collection'' (2013)
* ''Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Washington'' (2015)
* ''Kyosai: Master painter and his student Josiah Conder'' (2015)
* ''Paris Haute Couture'' (2016)
* ''Leonardo da Vinci e Michelangelo'' (2017)
* ''Impressionism and Beyond: Master paintings from the Yoshino Gypsum Collection'' (2019)
* ''1894 Visions: Odilon Redon and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec'' (2020)
See also
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Meiji Seimei Kan
''Meiji Seimei Kan'' (明治生命館) is a building in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.
History
The building was designed by Shinichiro Okada and completed in March 1934, two years after his death. It survived the bombing of Tokyo during World Wa ...
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Marunouchi
Marunouchi () is an area in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, located between Tokyo Station and the Kokyo, Imperial Palace. The name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat. Marunouchi is the core ...
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Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.
References
External links
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
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Art museums and galleries in Tokyo
Art museums and galleries established in 2010
2010 establishments in Japan
Buildings and structures in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Mitsubishi Estate