Kosugi Hōan Museum of Art

Very small

There was less than 50 paintings here and you couldn't take photos! Not many of the paintings were by kasugi hoan.

Nice building and calm cafe

Original Text

I like to spend a relaxing time at the museum where I am traveling. This building, which I have been interested in for a long time, is wonderful surrounded by greenery. I visited during the Golden Week holidays, but the cafe may be a little-known spot. I was able to spend quietly in a high ceiling and a large glass window space.

Artists are a new wind and a new flame.

Original Text

As a Western-style painter of Kosugi Hoki, Japan's change from Japanese painting to ink painting was the result of continuing exploration. As I knew from ink painting, I was interested in many of my favorite works because of the unique delicacy of the painting style. However, what surprised me was that this building was not half-finished. Anyway, I was just using plenty of granite to search for who the designer was. It's a modern architecture, but it's an entrance or ...

Look at the Shinbashi on your left and go up the hill.

Original Text

If you go from Nikko Station toward Toshogu, you will see Shinbashi on your left. Turn right there and you will find it on your right. This museum is designed to introduce the painters from Nikko, Kosugi Hoko, and the painters around him, and the culture of Nikko in modern times (after the Meiji era).

He was born as a son of a Shinto priest of niarayama Jinja shrine

Original Text

Kosugi Kosugi was born as a son of a Shinto priest at niarayama Jinja shrine and was a western style painter who was active in the Meiji period, Taisho period, and Showa period. There is a big evaluation, but the vast style of painting doesn't seem to be a little elusive. I asked him to see many works and make the area clear. However, on this day, there was a special exhibition "Genealogy of Picture Books IV Mitsumasa Yasuno: The World Exhibition of Mysterious Picture Books", and the number of works by Hoto Kosugi decreased. I was a little disappointed.