{"id":5051,"date":"2021-02-26T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/en\/?page_id=5051"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T06:45:47","slug":"about-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/en\/about-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"About Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work commenced on the Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art in September 1974, and the building was completed in August of the following year. The Museum opened its doors to the public in November 1975 to commemorate Aomori-born woodblock print artist Shiko Munakata&#8217;s being awarded the Cultural Order of Merit (1970).The museum hopes to keep alive his works for future generations and at the same time make a useful contribution to the arts in Aomori. To this end prefectural and municipal authorities as well as many others were generous in their assistance. \u3000 The museum itself, located in the heart of Aomori city, is a two &#8211; storied building utilizing steel-reinforced concrete. The architecture is of the&#8221;Azekura&#8221;style, popularly adopted in the construction of temples, public treasuries and storehouses from the Nara Period until the beginning of the Heian Period. In front of the hall entrance there is an elegant garden, the beauty of which attracts visitors in every season as well as Munakata&#8217;s unique world does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/s1-min-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4696\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/s1-min-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/s1-min\/\" class=\"wp-image-4696\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gaikan_s-1-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\u590f\u306e\u68df\u65b9\u5fd7\u529f\u8a18\u5ff5\u9928\u5916\u89b3\" data-id=\"5832\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gaikan_s-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/about_museum\/gaikan_s-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-5832\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1-min-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4694\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/a1-min-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/a1-min\/\" class=\"wp-image-4694\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/f1-min-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\u51ac\u306e\u68df\u65b9\u5fd7\u529f\u8a18\u5ff5\u9928\" data-id=\"4695\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/f1-min-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/f1-min\/\" class=\"wp-image-4695\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shiko Munakata is a world-renowned woodblock print artist, but he has also made significant contributions in the fields of &#8220;Yamato-ga&#8221;(drawn in India-ink and water colors), oil paintings, and calligraphy. However, his masterpiece &#8220;Two Bodhisattva and the Ten Great Disciples of Sakyamuni&#8221; and other powerful woodblock prints, the delicately expressed &#8220;Yamato-ga&#8221;, and dynamic calligraphy works are displayed all year round, along with a print block and various tools for the better understanding of the artist and his art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dp-ex-blocks-showcase deb-showcase col-num-1\"><div class=\"deb-showcase__container col-num-1\" style=\"--image-max-width:360px\"><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/museum_01.jpg\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" width=\"900\" height=\"5763\" alt=\"\u4e8c\u83e9\u85a9\u91c8\u8fe6\u5341\u5927\u5f1f\u5b50\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><h4 class=\"deb-showcase__title\"><span class=\"title-text ft13px\">Two Bodhisattvas and the Ten Great Disciples of Sakyamuni<br>Woodblock 1939, but revised in 1948 (printed in 1967)<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dp-ex-blocks-showcase deb-showcase col-num-3\"><div class=\"deb-showcase__container col-num-3\" style=\"--image-max-width:300px\"><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/museum_02.jpg\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" width=\"900\" height=\"5764\" alt=\"\u9580\u4e16(\u5b89\u65bc\u6bcd\u5229\u5983)\u306e\u67f5\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><h4 class=\"deb-showcase__title\"><span class=\"title-text ft13px\">Setting Out in the World<br>Woodblock 1968<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/museum_03.jpg\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" width=\"465\" height=\"5761\" alt=\"\u795e\u8aac\u5fa1\u84ec\u83b1\u4e4b\u56f3\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><h4 class=\"deb-showcase__title\"><span class=\"title-text ft13px\">The Chinese Legendary Isle of Eternal Youth<br>Drawing 1963<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/museum_04.jpg\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" width=\"900\" height=\"5762\" alt=\"\u592a\u967d\u82b1\u9ec4\u56f3\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><h4 class=\"deb-showcase__title\"><span class=\"title-text ft13px\">Sunflowers in Yellow vase<br>Oil Painting 1972<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dp-ex-blocks-showcase deb-showcase col-num-3\"><div class=\"deb-showcase__container col-num-3\" style=\"--image-max-width:300px\"><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/museum_05.jpg\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" width=\"900\" height=\"5759\" alt=\"\u96f2\u96a0\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><h4 class=\"deb-showcase__title\"><span class=\"title-text ft13px\">Cloud cover<br>Lithography 1974<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/munakatashiko-museum.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/museum_06.jpg\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" width=\"900\" height=\"5760\" alt=\"\u82b1\u6df1\u51e6\u65e0\u884c\u8de1\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><h4 class=\"deb-showcase__title\"><span class=\"title-text ft13px\">HANA-FUKAKI-TOKORO-GYOUSEKI-NASHI <br>(The untrodden path leads to a flowering mountains)<br>Calligraphy 1965<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><div class=\"deb-showcase__item al-c hover-move-up\"><figure class=\"deb-figure-plane\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"deb-showcase__image\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"deb-showcase__content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work commenced on the Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art in September 1974, and the building was completed 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