Tokyo museums : a complete guide = Tokyo no hakubutsukan / Thomas and Ellen Flannigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flannigan, Thomas.

Contributor:

Flannigan, Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art museums--Japan--Kanto Region--Directories.

Art museums.

Art museums--Japan--Tokyo--Directories.

Museums--Japan--Tokyo--Directories.

Museums.

Museums--Japan--Kanto Region--Directories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Tokyo no hakubutsukan

Place of Publication:

Rutland, Vt : Tuttle, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tokyo affords no better-or cheaper-day trip than a visit to one of its many fascinating museums. Now for the first time in English is a complete guide to all the museums, large and small, general and specific, in the Tokyo and Yokohama areas. Tokyo has everything for the expert and the casual observer alike. Superb exhibits include the collection of Oriental antiquities at the Tokyo National Museum and an old-Tokyo neighborhood recreated in the Fukagawa Edo Museum. Whatever your interests-from poetry to parasites-Tokyo has a museum for you. The authors, Thomas and Ellen Flannigan, who per

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; ARCHAEOLOGY; Ancient Oriental Museum; Kokugakuin University Archaeological Museum; Meiji University Archaeological Museum; Shirane Memorial Museum; Yuasa Memorial Museum; ARCHITECTURE; Otani Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum; ART; Individual Artists; Hasegawa Art Museum; Kumagai Museum; Kume Museum of Art; Mushanokoji Memorial Hall; Ryushi Memorial Hall; Yokoyama Memorial Hall; Modern Art; Comic Book and Illustration Museum; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; JAIB Museum; National Museum of Modern Art; Person's Weekend Museum

Setagaya Art MuseumSezon Museum of Art; Shoto Museum; Sogetsu Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Yamatane Museum of Art; Oriental Art; Aizu Memorial Museum of Oriental Arts; Century Museum; Eisei Bunko Museum; Gotoh Museum; Hatakeyama Collection; Idemitsu Museum of Art; Kurita Museum; Matsuoka Museum of Art; Middle-East Culture Center; Mitsui Museum; Nezu Museum; Ota Memorial Museum of Art; Riccar Museum; Shinjuku Museum; Toguri Museum of Art; Tokyo National Museum; Tokyo University Museum of Art; Tomioka Museum; Photography; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Thotogmphy; Sculpture

Asakura Choso Memorial MuseumContemporary Sculpture Museum; Okura Museum; Western Art; Bridgestone Museum; Do! Family Art Museum; Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; National Museum of Western Art; Yasuda Museum of Art; Yokohama Museum of Art; COSTUME & FASHION; Ace World-Bag Museum; Button Museum; Iwasaki fashion Institute Museum; Princess Gallery Handbag Museum; Sugino Gakuen Costume Museum; Tabi Museum; Tokyo Tower Wax Museum; CRAFTS; Building Tool Museum; Furniture Museum; Glass Book Museum; Japan Folk Crafts Museum; Kite Museum; Leather Arts Museum; Meiji University Commodity Museum

National Museum of Modern Art Crafts GalleryPaper Museum; Sasaki Crystal Gallery; Silk Museum; Sword Museum; Tombstone Museum; Woodcrafts Museum; Wood Sculpture Museum; HISTORY; General; Currency Museum; Daimyo Clock Museum; Edo-Tokyo Museum; Fisherman's Culture Museum; Fukagawa Edo Museum; Igusa Hachimangu Folklore Collection; Japanese War-Dead Memorial Museum; Kagawa Archivesand Resource Center; Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum; Kasei University Living History Museum; Kokugakuin University Shinto Museum; Lucky Dragon Memorial; Map Museum; Meiji Shrine Memorial Picture Gallery

Meiji University Criminological MuseumNaruse Memorial Hall; National Museum of Japanese History; Noguchi Museum; Ozaki Memorial Museum; Parliamentary Museum; Printing Bureau Museum; Shaving Culture Museum; Shitamachi Museum; Shibusawa Memorial Museum; Stationery Museum; Stock Market Museum; Tobacco and Salt Museum; Toraya Museum; Tsubouchi Theater Museum; Yamate Museum; Yokohama Customs Museum; Yokohama History Archives; Local; Adachi Ward Museum; Asakusa Historical Museum; Bunkyo Historical Museum; Itabashi Historical Museum; Kanagawa Prefecture Museum; Kita Ward Museum of Provincial History

Minato WavdLocal History Museum

Notes:

Contents page to different sections of book in English and Japanese.

ISBN:

1-4629-0424-6

OCLC:

818813923