Nezu Art Museum
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The Nezu Art Museum, (Nezu Fine Arts Institute), located in the Aoyama district of Tokyo, Japan, houses the private collection of Nezu Kaichirō (1860-1940). The museum opened to the public in 1940 and escaped the destruction suffered bythe estate property in the bombing of May 1945. The current building was erected in 1955.
Included in the collection are a pair of Edo period folding-screens of Irises by Ogata Kōrin, It also includes other paintings of renown, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and archaeological materials, as well as objects in lacquer, metal, and wood. The collection also consists of Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
