MOA Museum of Art

MOA Museum of Art
MOA Museum of Art
エムオーエー美術館
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General information
Address	26-2 Momoyama-cho
Town or city	Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35°06′34″N 139°04′31″E / 35.109313°N 139.075204°ECoordinates: 35°06′34″N 139°04′31″E / 35.109313°N 139.075204°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.^[1]

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