Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum

Very interesting!

I knew nothing at all about Denchu before my visit and learned a great deal. You can even walk round his house and it has very nice lacquered floors!

Is it prohibited to enter the old house?

Original Text

I went to see the 150th anniversary exhibition of Tanaka Hirakushi. About 10 minutes walk from Hitotsubashi Gakuen Station on the Seibu Tamako Line. It is a magnificent Japanese-style house in a residential area and looks from the road in front of it. The museum is a newly built ２ building next to it. Enter from the back entrance and pay the admission fee to the exhibition hall on the 2nd floor. Many of the best Tanaka sculptures from the early days to the later years are exhibited, and you can just look at the true wood carvings. The rich facial expression and body balance of the person, and even the fine fold of the kimono ...

in the residential area.

Original Text

It stands quietly in a residential area. There is no parking lot. Access is to walk through the residential area from Hitotsubashi Gakuen Station.

You can see the home and garden where you spent your work.

Original Text

This museum in Kodaira City is located on the land facing Tamagawa Josui. １０７ The reason why I lived here for the last 10 years until I died at the age of the year. It seems to be a museum made using it. The exhibition hall displays masterpieces "Kagami Shishi", books, collected art and crafts. In addition, my home and garden were open to the public, and I was able to see it freely. At the age of 100, I was surprised to find a raw tree for production 20 years later and placed it in front of the entrance. That Enel ...

Kabuki の "Lion of the Mirror"

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He spent about 10 years in his later years in Kodaira City. Facing Tamagawa Josui, the greenery shines and the nature is rich. In the basement of the museum, how to make a sculpture called Hoshitoriho is introduced. The powerful Kabuki "Kagami Shishi", the "Singing Kimigashiro" that fascinates you with the texture of clothes that you can't think of as sculptures, the delicate and colorful "Kirakubo", and just a wonderful word. I wanted to see a masterpiece of 2 meters high in the lobby of the National Theater, which took 22 years. ...