MOA Museum of Art

MOA Museum of Art
エムオーエー美術館
General information
Address	26-2 Momoyama-cho
Town or city	Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35°06′34″N 139°04′31″E
Opened	1982
Renovated	2017
Technical details
Floor count	3 above ground
Website
www.moaart.or.jp/en/about/

The MOA Museum of Art (エムオーエー美術館, MOA Bijūtsukan) is a private museum in the city of Atami, Japan.

History

The museum was established in 1982 by the Mokichi Okada Association (MOA) to house the art collection of their founder, multimillionaire and religious leader Mokichi Okada (1882–1955).

Collection

The collection of the museum consists of approximately 3,500 works of art that include three National Treasures (Red and White Plum Blossoms screen by Ogata Kōrin, Nonomura Ninsei’s Tea-leaf Jar with design or wisteria, and a Calligraphy Album “Tekagami Kanboku-jo” which is an album of ancient calligraphy from the Nara to Muromachi periods), as well as 66 Important Cultural Properties of Japan.

The collection covers a wide span of classical Japanese paintings, hanging scrolls, Japanese sculpture, porcelain and lacquerwork from China and Japan.

The museum also has a reconstruction of the 16th century Golden Tea Room, which was made under the supervision of the architect Sutemi Horiguchi, an expert of sukiya architecture.

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  Red and White Plum Blossoms by Ogata Kōrin (National Treasure)
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  Tea-leaf jar with a design of wisteria by Ninsei, Edo period (National Treasure)
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  Golden Tea Room

See also

• List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings)
• List of National Treasures of Japan (writings)
• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts-others)

External links

Media related to MOA Museum of Art at Wikimedia Commons

• moaart.or.jp Home page