THE SUMIDA HOKUSAI MUSEUM
Hokusai Katsushika was an internationally renowned Ukiyo-e artist, featured at the Paris World Exposition in 1867, who influenced French Impressionists.
The Sumida Hokusai Museum opened in 2016 in the Sumida district area, where Hokusai was born in 1760 and lived for most of his life until he passed away in 1849. The museum houses about 1,800 artworks——including hand-drawn paintings, multi-colored woodblock prints, and woodblock-printed books ——all of which together form a valuable, world-class collection.
There are four or five exhibitions per year. Every exhibition lets one fully enjoy the wonderful works of Hokusai and his disciples. The permanent exhibition room introduces Hokusai’s works and life events in chronological order. His reproduced “atelier” of later years is also exhibited.
The building was designed by Kazuyo Sejima, a Pritzker architecture prize winner. It features bold slits that allow you to see the inside of the building from the outside. The Tokyo Sky Tree can be seen from the fourth floor.
Photo courtesy of The Sumida Hokusai Museum
THE SUMIDA HOKUSAI MUSEUM
2-7-2 Kamezawa Sumida-ku Tokyo
TEL 03-6658-8936
OPEN 9:30-17:30 Admission until 30 minutes before closing
CLOSED Monday (If a national holiday falls on a Monday, the museum is open that Monday and closed on the following weekday), Year-end holidays.
ACCESS Toei & JR RYOGOKU
TICKET Adults ¥400(permanent exhibition)
Depending on the special exhibitions on show, the admission fee varies.
FACILITY Museum shop, Library, Lecture hall
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