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Ohara Museum of Art ( 大原美術館 )
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Established in 1930, this is Japan’s first private art museum to display Western and contemporary art. Located within Kurashiki City’s Bikan Quarter, the buildings constructed to look like old Japanese rice granaries and Greek temples are also attractive.
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Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki city, Okayama pref.
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki city, Okayama pref.
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Ohara Cotton producers and merchants became very rich in Kurashiki and could afford to purchase an amazing collection of Western Art and then dedicate museums to it. We will not have time to enter the museum because they don't allow filming inside and on top of it, it closes at 5pm and at that time EVERYTHING ELSE is also shutting down in this rich resort town city center, but at least we will get the feel of it from what the architecture and gardens have to say!
Here their official info: In 1930, to commemorate Kojima Torajiro, a Western-style painter who died the previous year, Kurashiki entrepreneur, Ohara Magosaburo, founded the Ohara Museum of Art. This private museum, featuring Western art, is the oldest in Japan.
Magosaburo, well-known as a collector of Japanese art, highly respected Torajiro’s talent and his humble attitude towards art, and sent Torajiro to Europe three times. Torajiro studied art in Europe and, at the same time, with Magosaburo’s superb European artwork, choosing pieces through the sense of beauty that he possessed as a Japanese artist.
Torajiro, who had a spirit typical of Meiji Era, felt there was a struggle between the highlights of Western art and his Japanese aesthetic sense, when he carefully chose artwork. He prudently chose masterpieces by El Greco, Gauguin, Monet, Matisse and other artists and brought them to Kurashiki, which are now the main features of the Ohara Museum of Art. His collection of Chinese and Egyptian art reveals the conflict of beauty between Western and Oriental art that he faced, where he tried to seek the essence of art.
The Ohara Museum of Art plays an active role in Kurashiki, expanding the collection to include both modern and contemporary art from the West and Japan, as well as pieces by artists who served Mingei Movement (Japanese Folk Art Movement). Now the museum is well known to the world as a private museum with its own character, reflecting Japanese culture.
The Ohara Museum of Art, in addition to opening the eyes of children and adults on site, spends time and energy on distance learning programs through the information communication technology (IT). As an art museum that will actively live through the 21st century, it also serves for broad activities cultivating the frontier of art. Art Lectures are held every summer, and Gallery Concerts, inviting world-class musicians, are part of its activities.
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Ohara Museum: The First museum of Western art in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan 06 Moopon
The Ohara Museum of Art was Japan's first museum of Western art. It is a private museum consisting of three adjacent buildings next to the canal and a separate building located in Ivy Square.
The Main Gallery building was constructed when the museum was founded, and features most of the museum's highlights. On display are masterpieces of Western art by Picasso, El Greco, Gauguin, Modigliani, Rodin, Klee, Pollock and Kandinsky among others. The artists in the collection span a wide variety of periods and nationalities.
it features a number of works by Japanese artists, and includes both oil paintings and sculptures. The Craft Art Gallery displays ceramics, woodblock prints, stencil dyeing, and other crafts. The Asiatic Art Gallery includes artifacts from Egypt and antiques from China.
The final building, the Kojima Museum, is located a five minute walk away in Ivy Square and is included in the admission fee. It is a gallery for Kojima Torajiro, a Japanese artist who painted in the Western style.
The main buildings of the Ohara Museum are located at the northern end of Kurashiki's historic canal area. The Kojima Museum is located about 200 meters away from the other buildings, just across the canal within Ivy Square.
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30)
Closed: Mondays (unless Monday is a national holiday), December 26 to 31
Admission: 1300 yen (includes entrance to the Kojima Museum)
English audio guide available free of charge
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This video went off the rails a bit and became an art lecture. My friend, Cecilia, and I went to Kurashiki and visited the Bikan Historical District, which is home to the wonderful Ohara Museum of Art. The private museum houses a number of original paintings from French Impressionists including Monet, Matisse, Gaugin, Degas, Picasso, as well as the prized El Greco masterpiece, Annunication.
I review a few of my favorite paintings.
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The Ohara Museum of Art is the first privately operated museum of Western art in Japan and was founded in 1930.The museum displays a variety of works ranging from pieces by Japanese artists who contributed to the promotion of Japanese modern and contemporary arts.
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大原美術館【倉敷美観地区】 OHARA MUSEUM OF ART Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
倉敷が誇る、大原美術館。撮影禁止の大原美術館の中身を特別に撮影させていただきました。
Ohara Museum of Art is one of the most popular sightseeing spots in Kurashiki. Photography and video recording are not allowed, but we got permission from the museum to share this on here.
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Kurashiki, Japan - Full Tour (2019)
Kurashiki (倉敷市 Kurashiki-shi) is a historic city located in western Okayama Prefecture, Japan, sitting on the Takahashi River, on the coast of the Inland Sea.
As of March 31, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 483,576 and a population density of 1,400 persons per km². The total area is 355.63 km².
The modern city of Kurashiki was founded on April 1, 1928. Previously, it was the site of clashes between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the Heian period. It gradually developed as a river port. During the Edo period, it became an area directly controlled by the shogunate. Distinctive white-walled, black-tiled warehouses were built to store goods. During the Meiji Restoration (Japan's Industrial Revolution period), factories were built, including the Ohara Spinning Mill, which still stands as the nostalgic tourist attraction Ivy Square.
On August 1, 2005, the town of Mabi (from Kibi District), and the town of Funao (from Asakuchi District) were merged with Kurashiki.
Kurashiki is the home of Japan's first museum for Western art, the Ohara Museum of Art. Established in 1930 by Magosaburō Ōhara, it contains paintings by El Greco, Monet, Matisse, Gauguin, and Renoir. The collection also presents fine examples of Asian and contemporary art. The main building is designed in the style of Neoclassicism.
The old merchant quarter is called the Bikan historical area. It contains many fine examples of 17th century wooden warehouses (kura, 倉) painted white with traditional black tiles, along a canal framed with weeping willows and filled with koi. The area has no electric poles in order to make it more closely resemble the look of the Meiji period. One of the city's former town halls was located in the Kurashiki Kan, a European style building constructed in 1917.
In 1997 a theme park called Tivoli (after the park of the same name in Copenhagen) opened near Kurashiki Station. After ten years of operation it was closed in 2008, with a massive debt.
The Great Seto Bridge connects the city to Sakaide in Kagawa Prefecture across the Inland Sea.
Kenzo Tange, winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture, designed the former Kurashiki City Hall in 1960.
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It's a Japanese jewel hidden away behind a cluster of around 600 islands in the Seto Island Sea. Facing the sea, 750 kilometres west of Tokyo, the town of Kurashiki has been a major centre for Japan's textile industry since the late 19th century. The buildings in Ivy Square were once a cotton mill and the folkcraft museum occupies a former rice storehouse. Each year, around four and a half million tourists flock to the town to enjoy its scenic beauty. The Ohara
Museum of Art houses work by several masters from all over the world. The skill of glass-blowing is alive and well in the town and the making of papier mache toys continues in the traditional way. Kurashiki is linked to a chain of islands by the Seto Ohashi bridge. It also leads to Shikoku, one of Japan's four main islands. Completed in 1988, the bridge spans a distance of 12.3 kilometres. In the shadow of the Seto Ohashi bridge, the traditional fishing boats of Kurashiki still ply their age-old trade. The sight is a symbol of Japan - old traditions lying side by side with modern technology.
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Various views of Islands in the Seto Island Sea; Views along the river to Kurashiki; Aerial view of town; Spinning mill photo; Ivy square; Ohara museum; tourists visiting town; Folkcrast museum; Glass blower at work; Toy maker making papier mache toys; Views of Seto Ohashi Bridge; Fishing boats under the bridge; Views of Bridge.
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Ohara Museum of Art
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Kurabo Memorial HallS
Mitsui Outlet Park Kurashiki
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Considered the best example of how a Meiji town would look like, Bikan offers the visitor a nice and cosy atmosphere that is worth experience. It's not big but the little and narrow streets will make you feel like you are walking around a big place.
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Area: Kurashiki, Okayama
Feature: Ohara Museum of Art
The first modern Western art museum in Japan, founded by the businessman, Magosaburo Ohara, who commemorated his good friend oil painter, Torajiro Kojima, in 1930. Not only the paintings of Monet and Cezanne, which Torajiro was entrusted to collect in Europe from Magosaburo, also the arts of Egypt and Middle East are exhibited.
実録！ 倉敷美観地区と 本通り商店街 完全ガイド！ と動画で見るWikipedia 『大原孫三郎』と『大原家住宅』風の旅人監修 付録：ケーズデンキ突入
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実録！ 倉敷美観地区と 本通り商店街 完全ガイド！ と動画で見るWikipedia 『大原孫三郎』と『大原家住宅』風の旅人監修 付録：ケーズデンキ突入
Magosaburō Ōhara and Ohara Museum of Art
大原 孫三郎（おおはら まごさぶろう、1880年7月28日 - 1943年1月18日）は日本の実業家。
倉敷紡績（クラボウ）、倉敷絹織（現在のクラレ）、倉敷毛織、中国合同銀行（中国銀行の前身）、中国水力電気会社（中国電力の前身）の社長を務め、大原財閥を築き上げる。
社会、文化事業にも熱心に取り組み、倉紡中央病院（現・倉敷中央病院）、大原美術館、大原奨農会農業研究所（現・岡山大学資源生物科学研究所）、倉敷労働科学研究所（現・大原記念労働科学研究所）、大原社会問題研究所（現法政大学大原社会問題研究所）、私立倉敷商業補習学校（現岡山県立倉敷商業高等学校）を設立した。倉敷教会(後の日本基督教団倉敷教会)の最初の教会員。
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2 関連項目
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4 外部リンク
来歴・人物
岡山県倉敷市の大地主で倉敷紡績（クラボウ）を営む大原孝四郎（1833年-1910年）の三男として生まれる。大原家は文久年間村の庄屋をつとめ明治の中頃には所有田畑約800町歩の大地主となった豪家である。二人の兄が相次いで夭折したため、孫三郎が大原家の嗣子となった。1897年（明治30年）東京専門学校（後の早稲田大学）に入学。若年は富豪の跡継ぎとして放蕩生活を送り、専門学校時代も殆ど講義には顔を出さなかった。放蕩の果てに1万5千円（現在の金額で1億円）もの借金を抱え、1901年（明治34年）父親より東京専門学校を中退のうえ倉敷に連れ戻され、謹慎処分を受けた。
謹慎中に石井十次を知り、その活動に感銘を受けた。孫三郎は社会福祉事業にも興味を示すようになり、後に工員の環境改善や農業改善に取り組んでいる。明治34年、十次の紹介で石井スエ（のち、寿恵子）と結婚。倉敷紡績に入社。工員が初等教育すら受けていないことに驚き、職工教育部を設立。1902年（明治35年）には工場内に尋常小学校を設立した。また、倉敷商業補習学校（現在の倉敷商業高校）を設立し、働きながら学ぶ工員の教育を支援した。学びたくても資金がない地元の子弟のために大原奨学会を開設。後に大原美術館の礎となるコレクションを集めた洋画家・児島虎次郎もこの奨学生となっている。明治38年にはキリスト教の洗礼を受け，同年に「日曜講演」を石井十次の勧めにより開始する。
1906年（明治39年）、社員寮内で感染病を出し社員数名を死亡させた責任を取る形で父が辞任したため、倉敷紡績の社長となる。就任と同時に工員の労働環境改善を図った。従来の飯場制度を廃止し、従業員の確保・食事の手当・日用品の販売等を会社が運営するよう改めた。工員の住居も集団寄宿舎から今日のような社宅に近い状態に改め、駐在医師や託児所までの設備も備えており、更には社員勧誘用の映画までも作った。また、幹部社員に大学・専門学校の卒業生を採用した。また、会社の利益のほとんどを日露戦争などで増えた孤児を救うために孤児院を支援。支援金額は現在の金額では数百億円に上ったといわれる。旧来の重役や株主は守旧的や利益主義であり当然これらの改革には反対した。これに対し後に口癖となった「わしの眼は十年先が見える」という言葉で押し切った。
1914年（大正3年）に大原奨農会農業研究所（現在の岡山大学資源生物科学研究所の前身）を設立し、農業の改善も図った。また、社会問題の研究機関として1919年（大正8年）2月に大原社会問題研究所（現在の法政大学大原社会問題研究所）を開設。のちにマルクス経済学の研究が中心となり、大原社会問題研究所や孫三郎もまた特別高等警察から警戒された。だが戦後になり復興し、多くの貴重な書籍が発見されたり大原社会問題研究所は多くの政治家などを輩出した。1921年（大正10年）には労働環境改善の研究機関として倉敷労働科学研究所（現在の大原記念労働科学研究所）を開設した。1923年（大正12年）倉紡中央病院（現在の倉敷中央病院）を設立し、工員のみならず市民の診療も行った。
工場を蒸気による動力から電気動力への転換を図り中国水力電気会社（現在の中国電力）を設立。中国合同銀行（現在の中国銀行）の頭取となり、地元経済界の重鎮となった。さらに1926年（大正15年）には倉敷絹織（現在のクラレ）を設立。
1930年（昭和5年）児島虎次郎に収集を依頼した各国の美術品を収蔵する大原美術館開館。1935年（昭和10年）倉敷毛織を設立（後、倉紡に吸収合併）。1939年（昭和14年）長男の大原総一郎に企業体を引き継ぎ引退。1943年（昭和18年）倉敷市の自宅で死去。62歳だった。
関連項目
大原家 (倉敷市)
岡山県出身の人物一覧
早稲田大学の人物一覧
阪神間モダニズム
石井十次
関連文献
『わしの眼は十年先が見える 大原孫三郎の生涯』城山三郎 （飛鳥新社、1994年、新潮文庫、1997年）
『福祉実践にかけた先駆者たち－留岡幸助と大原孫三郎』兼田麗子 （藤原書店、2003年）
『大原孫三郎の経営展開と社会貢献』 大津寄勝典、（学術叢書・日本図書センター 2004年）
『大原孫三郎伝』 〔大原孫三郎伝刊行会〕編 （非売品、1983年）
外部リンク
大原孫三郎人物伝
大原家系図
大原美術館
クラレ
クラボウ
倉敷中央病院
石井記念愛染園
法政大学大原社会問題研究所
岡山大学資源生物科学研究所
財団法人労働科学研究所
誠之館人物誌『石井英太郎』（岳父）
Dani Karavan, “Time Space Meditation”, Ohara Museum of Art, 1995
Kurashiki, Japan
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「はじまり、美の饗宴展 すばらしき大原美術館コレクション」
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会 期 ：2016年1月20日（水）～4月4日（月）
開館時間：10時～18時（入館は17時30分まで）
※会期中の毎週金曜日は20時まで
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休 館 日 ：毎週火曜日
会 場 ：国立新美術館（東京・六本木）企画展示室1E
主 催 ：国立新美術館、公益財団法人大原美術館、NHKプロモーション
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＜Ohara Museum of Art＞
Founded in 1930, this was Japan’s first private museum of Western art. With the help of the industrialist, Magosaburo Ohara, the painter, Torajiro Kojima, traveled to Europe to buy Monet’s “Waterlilies” and Matisse’s “Portrait of Mademoiselle Matisse” directly from the artists. In addition, the museum holds an extensive collection of famous works by Renoir, Gauguin and El Greco, as well as works of contemporary art.