SEIKADO BUNKO ART MUSEUM
Address: 2-23-1, Okamoto, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-0076
Telephone: +81-3-3700-0007
Many Japanese lost sight of their cultural heritage in their headlong Westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of the late 1860s. Yanosuke Iwasaki, the second president of Mitsubishi, and his son Koyata, the fourth president, collected books, artworks and other cultural treasures systematically to help safeguard that heritage. Seikado houses their collection of 5,000 works of art in a museum. The museum displays its treasures to the public in a year-round program of exhibitions.

Current Exhibition
Masterpieces of Tea Utensils from Seikado Collection,
including National Treasure Yohen Tea Bowl
and Tea Caddy known as gTsukumo-nasuh

February 6(Sat.) \ March 22(Mon.)


Tea bowl, Yohen Tenmoku (called gInaba Tenmokuh).
Song dynasty, 12th-13th century.
Hours: 10:00a.m. to 4:30p.m. (Admission until 4:00p.m.)
Closed: Monday (opened on March 22)
Admission fees:
Adults 800yen, University and high school students 500yen,
Junior high and elementary school students free
How to get there:
From Futakotamagawa Station on the Oimachi Line or Den-entoshi Line and Tokyu Coach to gSeikado Bunko,h
a five-miniute walk
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