Ohara Museum of Art

The Ohara Museum of Art was founded in 1930 in commemoration to Western-style painter Kojima Torajiro. It was the first Western art museum in Japan. The museum’s Main Gallery includes masterpieces by Picasso, El Greco, Monet, Gauguin, Modigliani, Rodin, and more. The featured collections consist of various time periods with artists of different nationalities.

The building beside the Main Gallery, known as the Annex, highlights many works by Japanese artists. It also houses the Craft Art Gallery, which displays ceramics, woodblock prints, and more. There is also the Asiatic Art Gallery, which consists of Egyptian artifacts and Chinese antiques.

The museum’s final building is the Kojima Museum. Kojima Torajiro was a Western-style painter that studied art in Europe. The founder of the museum, Ohara Magosaboro, respected Torajiro’s talent and attitude towards art. Many of the museum’s main highlights were purchased by Torajiro on behalf of Magosaboro. Magosaboro opened the museum a year after Torajiro’s death.