Artworks

Tokyo National Museum (Honkan)

Artwork · Watanabe Jin · 1937 · building · Tokyo National Museum

The prize-winning design of Watanabe Jin (1887–1973) for the Tokyo Imperial Museum in the “imperial-crown style” of Japanese nationalism in the 1930s: a curving Japanese roof and porte-cochère, a façade that reads as two storeys over three, upper galleries lit by daylight for sculpture and objects, the lower ones artificially for light-sensitive paintings. 1 Mason 2005, p. 349, fig. 406. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.