After a period of three and a half years the Nezu Museum has finally reopened its doors.
The modern minimalist approach by architect Kengo Kuma gives breathing space to a collection of traditional art, including scrolls, screens, ceramics, English clocks, bronze sculptures, Japenese court calligraphy and buddha statues. The focus is on Japanese tea ceremony and Chinese influences.
And visitors will find refuge in the moss covered garden, dotted with tea houses, stone bridges and waterfalls. A welcome oasis in the otherwise crowded Omotesando shopping street area.
As part of the branding exercise the old name 'the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts' was changed into the more minimal 'Nezu Museum' and the new logo with the letters N and M was set in bamboo by the German design agency Peter Schmidt.
Nezu Museum website
http://www.nezu-muse.or.jp/en/about/index.html About the museum:
The industrialist and president of Tobu Railway, NEZU Kaichiro, Sr.(1860-1940) established a foundation in his will to preserve his personal collection. The museum opened at his private residence on this Aoyama site the following year,in 1941. Set in the spacious traditional-style garden with pond are several tea houses (chashitsu) because Kaichiro was an enthusiastic practitioner of 'the way of tea.'The Nezu Museum is considered especially strong in arts related to 'tea.'
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