Adachi Museum houses numerous masterpieces by great painters typical of the modern Japanese art world, including Yokoyama Taikan, Takeuchi Seiho, Kawai Gyokudo, Uemura Shoen, Hashimoto Kansetsu, Kawabata Ryushi and Sakakibara Shiho. With regard to Taikan, the museum has collected 120 works from his early to later years, and in both quantity and quality, these works are the best of the museum’s collection. Most of the works the museum houses were collected by Adachi Zenko (1899-1990), founder of the museum. He never focused on particular schools or directions in his collection, but had a wide perspective, and this remains a defining characteristic of the Adachi Museum's Japanese painting collection.
In this exhibition, we will display masterpieces Zenko deeply loved, the choice of works recommended by the museum’s director and curators, and those ranked high in past ballots by visitors. It is no exaggeration to say that this exhibition covers a representative sample of the museum’s collection. We hope that you will enjoy each work, together with insights from experts and contextual accounts.