Art Museum that is also a Work of Art “Adachi Museum of Art”

Surrounded by a garden and paintings

Adachi Museum of Art is sometimes referred to as “Taikan Art Museum”. Adachi Museum of Art owns over 130 works by the Japanese painter Taikan Yokoyama, and is the largest private art museum both in quality and quantity in all of Japan.

The founder, the late Zenkou Adachi was an established entrepreneur, who became a great collector of Japanese paintings and opened Adachi Museum of Art in 1970. Zenkou Adachi once said, “I wish for people to come in touch with the beauty of the four seasons in the Japanese garden, and with that impression in mind, understand the charm of Taikan Yokoyama and Japanese paintings. And then experience the art of Japanese paintings and “being moved by art.”” One cannot help but stop to gaze at the beautiful expanse of the Japanese garden at the museum.

The garden has been voted “Best Garden in Japan” 7 years in a row since 2003 by the American journal of Japanese gardens “ Journal of Japanese Gardening”, and is the only place which was given the high grade “three stars” in the Sanin area. It is a certified scenic spot.

Stepping into the museum, a painting by Taikan Yokoyama welcomes visitors. But that is not all. An impressive array of works by artists ranging from present to the Meiji period such as Tessai Tomioka, Gyokudo Kawai, and Ikuo Hirayama who passed away in 2009 are on exhibit. To be moved by beauty of nature composed by the four seasons and art fabricated by human, the splendour of Japan is concentrated here in Adachi Museum of Art.
It is a place to deeply submerge in the beauty and art of Japan.