was established in
Kōchi
Kochi is a city in Kerala, India.
Kochi or Kōchi may also refer to:
People
* Kochi people, a predominantly Pashtun nomadic people of Afghanistan
* , a Japanese surname:
** Arata Kochi (born 1948 or 1949), Japanese physician and World Health Org ...
, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan in 1993. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
The permanent collection includes works by local artists as well as
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...
, a very large collection of photographs and personal items owned by
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
was a Japanese-American photographer. His decades-long career explored expressions of modernist design in traditional architecture, the quiet anxieties of urban life in Tokyo and Chicago, and the camera's capacity to bring out the abstract in the ...
, and there is also a stage for
Noh
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. It is Japan's oldest major theater art that is still regularly performed today. Noh is often based on tales from traditional literature featuri ...
and other performances.
See also
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Prefectural museum
A prefectural museum is a museum that specializes in collections local to a prefecture of Japan.
Prefectural museums emerged in postwar Japan, and since these institutions are of recent origin their collections tend not to contain older Japan a ...
References
External links
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The Museum of Art, Kōchi*
The Museum of Art, Kōchi
Art museums and galleries in Kōchi Prefecture
Prefectural museums
Art museums and galleries established in 1993
1993 establishments in Japan
Kōchi, Kōchi
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