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A museum gaining world attention for its extensive collection of traditional Japanese paintings and the best garden in Japan.
The founder of the museum is a successful businessman, Adachi Zenko, who was born in Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture. Bringing together the modern Japanese paintings of renowned artists such as Yokoyama Taikan, Yokoyama Seiho, Uemura Shoen, Hashimoto Kansetsu, Sagakibara Shiho, the museum stores about 2000 artworks, including ceramic arts and wooden sculptures. These artworks are exhibited in rotation. In particular, they collected about 120 works by Yokoyama Taikan, and are often called the "Taikan Art Museum.” In the specialized exhibition room, approximately 20 works by Taikan are always displayed.
Their outstanding Japanese garden has been repeatedly voted the best garden in Japan since 2003 by an American magazine specializing in Japanese gardens. The main karesansui garden (dry garden), moss garden, and pond garden encompass the museum, covering a vast area of over 16.000 ha. The famous White Gravel and Pine Garden were inspired by Taikan’s masterpeices.
As the founder Adachi believed “the garden is also a painting,” resident gardeners and museum staff spend one-hour gardening every morning. Don't miss the "living hanging scroll" and "living framed painting," which are built into the wall of the alcove and can be viewed in the magnificent garden as a single hanging scroll and painting.
The showcased artworks are rotated four-times annually so that different pieces are displayed in each season. The museum also has a large collection of ceramics and calligraphy by Kitaoji Rosanjin, and a new facility, the Rosanjin Hall, which opened in 2020.
The window frame works as a picture overlooking the main dry garden, which is named the “Living Framed Picture.”
Taikan’s most lavish artwork Autumn Leaves has been brought out every year for the special autumn exhibition.
The“Kikaku no Taki” waterfall inspired by Taikan’s painting can be seen from the White Gravel and Pine Garden.
每個來參觀庭園的遊客都對此處環境讚不絕口。
很漂亮的地方，不愧為日本第一庭園。
